We need to make the connections and make it a whole system.
There was a study done on Chess for Success here in Oregon that showed it had a pretty positive impact.
We need to remember access as well, please.
I loved math, and it could have been taught in any form, and I would have loved it.
I think it is unfair that we charge our schools with the totality of educating the kid as if they are supposed to be tea...
And this is a story we have certainly heard throughout the State. And it is a big deal.
I just so appreciate getting this on the official record because I want folks back in Washington to make sure they hear ...
Your leadership and guiding legislation that enables that will be really valuable.
We are becoming the first generation of adults whose children are getting less education than we got.
the funds being shifted from, if you will, formula grants into competitive grants means that now the school district has...
Time is of the essence for every child being educated.
It is my hope that as you consider the reauthorization of ESEA, you will provide adequate and stable funding for this im...
We continue to react to the widening achievement gap rather than addressing the source of the problem.
For every student that comes to first grade unable to read, we are failing seven of them.
Yes, they do?
And then you mentioned the school choice issue, and this is part of the punitive structure of a school being labeled uns...
In your elementary schools, do the teachers talk about each student each week with each other?
I think that that is right.
