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Facing opioid and foster-care crisis, Spokane's Rising Strong seeks to keep families together

Claudia Rowe

April 05, 2019 |

The Seattle Times |

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Response Location: United States, Spokane, Washington

Keeping families together eases the burden on the foster care system and reduces issues such as homelessness and substance abuse in the long term. Former foster children in Spokane, Washington, end up relying heavily upon other social welfare institutions throughout their lives. To break this cycle, Rising Strong, a program funded largely by a philanthropic contribution, focuses on rebuilding families while addressing behavior issues through an intensive, live-in program.

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The push to find more gifted kids: What Washington can learn from Miami's wins

Claudia Rowe

December 07, 2017 |

The Seattle Times |

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Response Location: United States, Miami, Florida

In most "gifted" programs across the U.S., students are predominantly middle income and white, regardless of the variation in demographics between districts. Since the 1990s, Miami public schools have made it their quest to defy this trend and identify overlooked students who may be still learning English as a second language or whose potential may not be identified by traditional tests designed to find "gifted" students. In Miami, low-income and ESOL students take a different test than peers designed to account for certain stressors not present in other students' lives. Can Washington learn from this model?

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‘We can't just keep doing what we've been doing': King County tries risky alternative to youth jail

Claudia Rowe

October 23, 2017 |

The Seattle Times |

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Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

As Seattle’s Central District continues plans to expand their juvenile detention center, one prosecutor is looking for ways to keep kids out of it. "Our system has proven woefully inadequate, so we can’t just keep doing what we’ve been doing," explains Jimmy Hung, the prosecutor behind this hope. Hung, in partnership with the chief deputy prosecutor, faith workers, police officers and the director of King County’s juvenile detention center are now piloting peace circles with incoming detained juveniles with a goal of seeing a behavior and lifestyle switch.

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Gifted programs across Washington leave out black and Latino students — but Federal Way is one model for change

Claudia Rowe

April 02, 2017 |

The Seattle Times |

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Response Location: United States, Federal Way, Washington

Despite comprising a third of the population, poor and minority students are drastically underrepresented in gifted education programs across the nation, even if their academic performance is on-par with their white peers. Federal Way Public Academy in Washington has re-examined its methods for finding academically talented kids and is changing the numbers.

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King County tries counseling, self-reflection instead of jail for teens

Claudia Rowe

October 15, 2016 |

The Seattle Times |

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Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

Restorative justice, a process that originated in New Zealand, aims to repair damaged relationships rather than merely meting out punishment. It can be far more demanding than a traditional route through court, but for juvenile offenders like those in King County, who are statistically likely to get stuck in a cycle of crime after a first prison sentence, the alternative to incarceration may provide a constructive path forward.

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Highline district struggles with fallout after limiting student suspensions

Claudia Rowe

September 10, 2016 |

The Seattle Times |

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Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

The Highline school district in Washington implemented a radical new strategy to break the school-to-prison pipeline based on mounting data that suspending students pushed them into a vicious cycle of violence and delinquency. However, theories of replacing punitive measures with counseling and academic triage have proven difficult to translate from theory to practice, and many teachers have resigned over fear for their safety. But one teacher at Pacific Middle School has found a way to make the approach work, and the district is promising to scale his model, invest more in teacher training, and expand resources, determined to meet their original objectives and reach the kids that need the most help.

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Some Seattle schools end ‘tracking' in push for equity and success

Claudia Rowe

July 09, 2016 |

The Seattle Times |

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Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

Educators in the Seattle area are making a move to desegregate schools by removing track-based course structures. Inspired by the work and research of one school in New York, Washington is seeing results in closing the achievement gap by blending general-education students with those in advanced courses, creating a stimulating environment for all and better opportunities for minority students.

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‘Microcosm of the city': Garfield High principal navigates racial divide

Claudia Rowe

June 25, 2016 |

The Seattle Times |

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Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

After leading Seattle’s storied Garfield High School for more than a decade, Principal Ted Howard is having a crisis of conscience, wondering if his hard line with youth of color is hurting the very students he most wants to help.

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A longer school day? In Massachusetts, some schools see big payoff

Claudia Rowe

March 21, 2016 |

The Seattle Times |

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Response Location: United States, Fall River, Massachusetts

The true prize in education is a recipe that vaults low-income students into the upper echelons of achievement. A blue-collar town in Massachusetts says the key is something as basic as more time.

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Massachusetts is a lot like us, so why are its schools so much better?

Claudia Rowe

March 19, 2016 |

The Seattle Times |

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Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

For a decade, Massachusetts has led the nation in student performance, ranking high internationally, too. What are they doing that we aren’t? Funding their schools, for one thing. But it’s also about how you spend the money.

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