News Brief: Pence In Turkey, Gordon Sondland Profile, Chicago Teachers Vice President Pence is meeting with Turkey's President Erdogan in Ankara, trying to convince him to stop the assault on the Kurds in Syria. Also, a look at the history of Gordon Sondland. Sarah Karp
Classes Canceled For 300,000 Students As Chicago's Public Teachers Prepare To Strike The Chicago Teachers Union will go on strike tomorrow after failing to reach a contract deal with the country's third largest school district. Some 300,000 students won't be in school.
Seattle U students protest removal of Planned Parenthood from health resources The debate over abortion access has led to activism at Seattle University this week. Paige Browning
Parent as if your kid’s adulthood depends on it It does. Julie Lythcott-Haims shares insights into successful adult-rearing John O'Brien
Code Switch: Saving The Endangered Hawaiian Language By the 1980s, fewer than 50 Hawaiians under age 18 could speak their language. A handful of second-language speakers took it upon themselves to start a school where everything is taught in Hawaiian. Shereen Marisol Meraji
Do phones belong in the classroom? Seattle Public Schools weighs K-8 student cell phone ban Now that most middle-school students have cell phones, some teachers are embracing the technology for schoolwork and to communicate with kids. Others say it's the Ann Dornfeld
ACT To Allow Students To Retake Sections Of The Test To Improve Overall Score Prospective college students who take the ACT exam will soon be able to retake sections of the test to improve their overall score without having to retake the entire exam. Elissa Nadworny
The Things Parents Don't Talk About With Their Kids ... But Should A new survey from Sesame Workshop suggests, when it comes to talking with kids about things like race, class, and gender, parents have some work to do. Cory Turner
Seattle Schools doesn’t know which students are unvaccinated Measles outbreaks sickened dozens of Washington children this year, and today marks the legal cutoff for most Seattle Public Schools students to show proof of immunizations or exemptions – or be kept out of school. Ann Dornfeld
Child homelessness has doubled in Washington state in the last decade More than 40,000 students are homeless in Washington state, and living without stable housing is hurting their performance at school. Those are some of the findings in a new Schoolhouse Washington report. Kate Walters
