Claudia Rowe, Crosscut

Claudia Rowe

Crosscut

Seattle, WA, United States

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Recent:
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Past:
  • Crosscut
  • The Seattle Times

Past articles by Claudia:

Seattle Public Schools’ delta dysfunction

Without a more nimble approach to COVID contingencies, WA's largest school district risks losing vital state funding — and parent trust. → Read More

In WA, incarcerated students are ‘left behind and left out’

Echo Glen School is still one of the worst performing schools in the state. We’re not doing enough to change that. → Read More

The opioid crisis comes to the classroom as soaring numbers of children born in drug withdrawal reach school age

From Washington to West Virginia, the number of children born in withdrawal from opioids and other drugs has skyrocketed, and those babies — now elementary-school students — present challenges that teachers say they have never encountered at such a scale. → Read More

In opioid crisis, schools are on the front lines but slow to get help

The nation’s opiate addiction crisis draws attention but less visible are the effects on addicts’ children, in school. Across the Puget Sound region, these kids are reeling, and their life outcomes are often dire. But schools could offer hope to stem a looming social crisis. → Read More

David Moberly, who led Seattle schools through desegregation, dies at 89

Former Seattle Public Schools Superintendent David Moberly, who came to national prominence during the city’s battle over desegregation, died last week at age 89. → Read More

Want better-behaved kids? Allow them to mess up, new parenting book suggests

In this edition of "What We're Reading," a journalist wrestling with parenthood turns the reporting lens on herself and learns that kids today may be fundamentally different than those of generations past. Which means they need to be disciplined differently too. → Read More

Beyond Lego and finger paint: preschool tackles race head-on

Common for public school teachers and police departments, anti-bias training is more unusual at the preschool level. An early-education program located in the heart of Seattle seeks to change that. → Read More

Beyond Lego and finger paint: preschool tackles race head-on

Common for public school teachers and police departments, anti-bias training is more unusual at the preschool level. An early-education program located in the heart of Seattle seeks to change that. → Read More

Tara Westover describes schooling without school in searing memoir ‘Educated’

Growing up in rural Idaho with isolationist parents, the author never saw a teacher or a doctor. → Read More

Charter schools, despite ongoing legal questions, attract the families they hoped to get

Though they are too new to have a solid track record, operate under a cloud of legal uncertainty and often exist only in portable classrooms, Washington’s charter schools are growing. So why are families enrolling? → Read More

Washington state lawmakers consider universal screening to find gifted students

While legislators debate a law that would require testing all students for high intelligence, the Northshore School District is doing exactly that, and finding high potential in kids who had been overlooked. → Read More

Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor pushes for civics requirement in schools in Seattle visit

The U.S. Supreme Court justice spent Tuesday talking with educators and lawmakers about improving civics education in Washington. These days, she said, it’s more important than ever. → Read More

Walla Walla earns national honors for connecting more kids to advanced learning

Only 3 percent of the nation’s school districts have boosted Advanced Placement performance enough among underrepresented students to make the AP Honor Roll. Eight districts in Washington earned the honor this year. → Read More

‘Bold step’: King County to look at youth crime as public-health risk

The review could make King County the first jurisdiction in the nation to approach juvenile crime through a public-health lens. → Read More

Student homelessness in Seattle growing at New York City rates

A new report says that there are more than 3,600 homeless students in Seattle, and the numbers have increased 55 percent since 2012. → Read More

Juveniles charged as adults will no longer be housed at regional jail in Kent

The practice of housing teens at a jail designed for adults will end by this spring after a lawsuit highlighted the lack of schooling and use of solitary confinement for youths at the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent. → Read More

King County youth in Kent regional jail receive little schooling, say lawyers vowing to file suit

Teens locked up at the county jail in Kent receive an hour of schooling, at most, with no allowance made for those eligible for special-education services. Last week, a team of lawyers cried foul on that, among other issues, citing state and federal law. → Read More

Olympia’s new discipline plans say schools must be fairer and work with parents

Got thoughts about school discipline? Olympia wants you to weigh in on a set of new proposed rules. Foremost among them: more connection between families, students and educators. → Read More

Olympia’s new discipline plans say schools must be fairer and work with parents

Got thoughts about school discipline? Olympia wants you to weigh in on a set of new proposed rules. Foremost among them: more connection between families, students and educators. → Read More

For overwhelmed single mom: Here’s a road map to get your kids to college

The road to college has many pitfalls, from failure to take the right courses in high school to fixating on unaffordable universities. Education Lab tapped the expertise of two very different sources to help point the way. → Read More