Every one of us in the Western world has contributed to climate change. – Bill McKibben Recently, I organized a couple of events with the goal of showing people how their choices and actions can make a real difference in the effort to end our dependence on fossil fuels like…
WHEREAS more than one million students attend public schools in Washington State, comprised of about 80,000 students at each grade level and WHEREAS only 60,000 of theses students graduate from Washington high schools each year, leaving about 20,000 students annually who do not receive the help they need to graduate…
WHEREAS not being enumerated in Article I, Section B of the U.S. Constitution, education has historically been left to each State per the 10th Amendment to the US Constitution; WHEREAS the copyrighted Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are a set of controversial academic standards that were created for the whole…
By Bonnie Azab Powell, NewsCenter 27 October 2003 [George P. Lakoff is an American cognitive linguist, best known for his thesis that our choices are significantly influenced by the central metaphors we use to explain complex phenomena. For more from Lakoff, look at his most recent book (2012) The Little…
