Friday, April 29, 2022

The Seattle Times Opinion – The Seattle Times

The Seattle Times Opinion – The Seattle Times


Disney’s magic trumps haters like DeSantis

Posted: 29 Apr 2022 08:01 AM PDT


Revenge may cost Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis the job, you think as you giddily sip an $8.95 mimosa in sight of Epcot's Eiffel Tower at the France pavilion.

Literacy: Older students

Posted: 28 Apr 2022 02:14 PM PDT


Re: "How do you move the needle on literacy? This Eastside city is retraining teachers" [April 18, Ed Lab]: Congratulations to Mercer Island for responding to Washington state law requiring younger students to be screened for dyslexia. Although kids K-5 will now be receiving science-based literacy instruction in the general education setting along with the […]

Homelessness: Why disparage tiny-house villages?

Posted: 28 Apr 2022 02:12 PM PDT


Re: "More fallout from Seattle's stumbles on homelessness" [April 27, Local News]: Columnist Danny Westneat reports that Anne Martens, King County Regional Homelessness Authority senior director of external affairs and communications called tiny-house villages "shantytowns." I submit that little-house villages and shantytowns are not equivalent. People have constructed shantytowns all over the world and historically […]

Reparations: Individual action

Posted: 28 Apr 2022 02:05 PM PDT


When I began a serious examination of my family history, I soon discovered the origins of my family in Okanogan County (Eastern Washington). In 1886, Washington Territory opened some of the Colville Reservation to non-Native Americans. It could not stop the flood of miners and settlers from the Eastern U.S. Two weeks later, my great-grandfather […]

Raise the bar for teaching literacy to all WA students

Posted: 28 Apr 2022 01:45 PM PDT


There's no excuse for state schools not to use research-backed, structured literacy methods to encourage reading success.

We’ve seen firsthand Ukraine’s tragic behavioral-health crisis

Posted: 28 Apr 2022 01:40 PM PDT


To hear the stories of Ukrainians, fleeing their homeland, is a sobering reminder of the mounting behavioral-health crisis there.

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