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EWU ‘ancient alien’ course seeks to challenge how we decide on truth

Aliens built the pyramids. They used spaceships and laser beams. In fact, aliens are responsible for most of humanity’s greatest achievements. Or, if you’d rather, humans built them. They levered gigantic blocks of stone, dragged them across the desert and slung them on top of each other. They relied on human labor, persistence and occasional strokes of brilliance.
News >  Spokane

Juniors opt out of new assessment tests at high rate in Spokane area

Local students who opted out of Washington’s new assessment tests likely did so because of exam fatigue, not because of furor over Common Core standards, school officials say. Numbers released last week by the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction show that roughly 90 percent of students statewide took the Smarter Balanced assessment this spring, a new test crafted around federal standards for achievement in math and language arts. Local school districts, including Spokane Public Schools and Central Valley School District, showed similar participation.
News >  Spokane

EWU, Mead students set to launch collaborative rocket, plane project

Seven high school students from Mead have joined a team of rocket builders from Eastern Washington University to drop a remote-controlled plane from 10,000 feet in the air. At a four-day competition starting Wednesday in Green River, Utah, the team will take on other universities to see whose rocket is most worthy of flight. The 10-foot-3-inch rocket, built by the EWU students, will carry the plane, built by students of the Riverpoint Academy in Mead.
News >  Spokane

Spokane schools’ special education leader put on leave

The director of Spokane Public Schools’ special education programs has been placed on paid administrative leave at the same time those programs are under federal investigation. The district wouldn’t say when special education director Laura Pieper was placed on paid administrative leave, or why. Kevin Morrison, district spokesman, said he could not provide details because it’s a personnel matter. Superintendent Shelley Redinger was not available for comment, and Pieper declined to comment.
News >  Spokane

EWU holding last outdoor commencement ceremony

Today marks the end of an era at Eastern Washington University. The Class of 2015 will be the last to receive its diplomas at Roos Field, where June temperatures can turn the football stadium into a sweltering hot plate of pomp and circumstance. And then there are the periodic cloudbursts, like the one last June that drenched the Class of 2014 along with the thousands of friends and family members who had filled the stands to help celebrate.
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That’s Life: Testing takes toll on parents, students, teachers

Last week, when Spokane Public Schools teachers walked out of their classrooms to stand on street corners for one day, education was suddenly all over the news and social media. I watched the coverage and commentary with interest, my emotions conflicted. I’d just written a column about standardized testing and why I chose to opt one son out of the Smarter Balanced Consortium Assessment. The day that column was published, I learned the entire junior class at Nathan Hale High School in Seattle opted out.
News >  Spokane

Charter schools groups say rule changes unexpected

As Travis Franklin prepares to open a new charter school in Northeast Spokane, he worries the state is changing the ground rules by rushing through new regulations on staffing and pay that make charters too much like standard public schools. “The whole point of passing the initiative and having charter schools was doing something different,” said Franklin, head of school for the Spokane International Academy, scheduled to open this fall in the old St. Patrick’s School.
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