UW: We're Number 5!
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SmartMoney says a UW grad gets a 225 percent payback over time, making it a better value than an Ivy League school. But do the numbers add up?
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2008: Year of Hope, Year of Fear. Essay 13
Posted Tue, Jan 6, 6 a.m.
Why the odds are long for an economic and social turnaround
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2008: Year of Hope, Year of Fear. Essay 5
Posted Tue, Dec 30, 6 a.m.
An opportunity to transform regional politics
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Two ways to make deep cuts in government services
Posted Mon, Nov 24, 6 a.m.
Our local politicians are coping with austerity by sharing the pain and keeping nearly all programs alive for a future return. But what about the chance to be rid of programs that don't work?
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Playing the credit crisis blame game
Posted Wed, Oct 29, midnight
In the wake of the mortgage bailout, many are left wondering what went wrong. A UW forum attempts an answer.
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The geniuses who aren't on Wall Street
Posted Sun, Sep 28, 2 p.m.
The MacArthur Foundation names 25 people who, together, could probably get us out of this mess.
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Chop, chop
Posted Tue, Sep 9, 11 p.m.
As Mayor Greg Nickels moves to close a tree-cutting "loophole," it's time for a complete rethink of Seattle's rules and regulations regarding trees. And we better act fast.
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Extreme Seattle
Posted Wed, Aug 27, 1 a.m.
New demographic figures make clear what a statistical outlier Seattle is, with few families, few kids, high education, and rapid gentrification. Only San Francisco can compare.
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Posted Tue, Jul 22, 11 a.m.
Don't make a megalith, advises a prominent expert in forestry. Instead, think of a virtual environment with porous walls and many disciplines. The result could put the University of Washington in the lead for solving the world's environmental problems.
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A design-savvy city defined
Posted Fri, Jul 11, 5 a.m.
A report lays out a road map, backed by polling that revealed surprising attitudes of Seattleites and Portlanders about their hometown architecture.
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Teach both sides of the flat Earth!
Posted Mon, Jul 7, midnight
It's really quite simple: A lot of knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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Health insurance coverage vs. science
Posted Tue, Jul 1, 5 a.m.
A device to help those with autism and other conditions communicate has been excluded — and then included, and then excluded again — from health insurance coverage in Washington. At issue is the process by which insurers decide what's covered and why, which doesn't always reflect scientific consensus.
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Harvard finally gets its act together on gender studies
Posted Sat, Jun 28, 11 p.m.
It had offered a mere 76 courses. Now with addition of "Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece" and 29 others, the curriculum is at last worthy.
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Shepherding in Bruce Shepard, new Western Washington University prez
Posted Fri, Jun 13, midnight
With last-minute approval of a faculty-union contract, outgoing president Karen Morse leaves the new guy with a crisis resolved. Shepard, of Wisconsin, takes office in September.
READ MORE COMMENT NOWSocial progress in White Center
Posted Tue, Jun 10, 9 p.m.
The neighborhood is the focus of several programs designed to boost test scores, encourage early learning, improve living conditions, and provide a positive example of community pride and success that can be applied elsewhere. Part 2
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Lost in the blind alley of busing
Posted Mon, Jun 2, 2 p.m.
The impetus for desegregation came from commendable civil rights-era reform attempts, but school busing to achieve ethnically diverse classrooms has largely failed. Understanding desegregation's history may shed light on what we can do right in the future.
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ELF members gained nothing by the UW arson, and so much was lost
Posted Fri, May 30, 6 p.m.
A former staff member of the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture wonders why, seven years later, the crime makes no more sense than it did the morning Merrill Hall went up in flames.
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Love the warrior but hate the war, and other weekend ruminations
Posted Fri, May 23, 4 p.m.
Also: Whom to blame for gas prices, kudos for the schools supe, Sound Transit's latest audit, and polygamy's free pass.
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A bold plan to turn UW into a Stanford died a quiet death
Posted Tue, May 20, 5 a.m.
State universities have clumsy and stingy masters in state capitols. Is it time for divorce court? Here's the story of how some people advising the University of Washington looked at such a scheme.
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Getting ready for the Big One
Posted Mon, May 19, 5 a.m.
The images of the quake aftermath in China raise the question: What would the wake of a major quake look like in Seattle? Fortunately, we have the answer. Or at least a pretty good guess.
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Speling and grammer: lost causes?
Posted Mon, Dec 22, 4 p.m. 2008
Our author, a spelling champ in her youth, tries to explain across the generational divide
MORELakeside's "N" word poet responds
Posted Wed, Dec 17, noon 2008
African American poet Mona Lisa Saloy defends reading her poem "The "N" Word at Lakeside School.
MOREThe "N" word at Lakeside
Posted Mon, Dec 15, 11 a.m. 2008
An African-American poet stirs up a Seattle private school by using a word that is "antithetical to Lakeside’s spirit."
MORESome questions about the Gates Foundation's new education push
Posted Wed, Nov 12, 12:07 p.m. 2008
The goals are great, as are the resources. But the new focus risks perpetuating some problems with testing and misses a chance to do more with poor kids in early grades.
MORERandy Dorn and life after the WASL
Posted Fri, Nov 7, 10:58 a.m. 2008
Don't just tweak the tests, advises this former Seattle School Board member. The new state schools chief should shift dramatically to a more content-based tests.
MOREDam big science
Posted Thu, Nov 6, 12:36 p.m. 2008
Scientists take a pulse before Elwha dam removal.
MOREPutting science back in the White House
Posted Tue, Oct 21, 11:29 a.m. 2008
Two local luminaries join a forum proposing ways to turn around the Bush administration's neglect of the nation's technological competitiveness.
MOREWaMu: Death without dignity
Posted Thu, Sep 25, 4 a.m. 2008
The other night, a woman announced to the dinner table that she'd been into her branch of Washington Mutual and that everything seemed normal. It was as if she'd taken a stroll outside the gates of Baghdad's Green Zone and hadn't heard gunfire. That constitutes the good news, I suppose, for the Seattle-based bank which is in so much trouble. Unlike some other banks, WaMu is still kicking and apparent calm, instead of panic, in its bank lobbies is about all it can ask.
MORETaking student activism seriously
Posted Fri, Sep 19, 4 a.m. 2008
Sierra, the magazine of the Sierra Club, named the top 10 schools in the U.S. for environmental stewardship, and two Washington schools made the grade: Evergreen State College, at No. 5, and the University of Washington at Seattle, which, at No. 9, barely beat Tufts University to make it into the top 10.
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