Are multiple choice tests canceled?
Now you can graduate without standardized testing. Cash: the newest frontier in retail? How to survive a bear in the wild. And infiltrating white nationalism in the Pacific Northwest.
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Standardized test requirements scrapped
Until yesterday, Washington was one of the few states in America that still required high school students to pass standardized tests to get a diploma. Governor Inslee just signed a new law that would give students new paths to graduation if they failed those tests. Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal explains what they are.
Amazon Go's new frontier: cash transactions
When Amazon Go launched, it was touted as a frictionless, cash-free store that was the first of its kind. Now a new first has been reached: the first Go store to re-incorporate cash, as jurisdictions work to ban cash-only businesses. Katie Burke is a retail reporter for the San Francisco Business Times, and has been following the story.
What happens when you let bears make the rules
It’s finally spring! Your joy in the outdoors has come back to life again. But you know what else has come back to life? BEARS. And there’s a family of them walking towards you down the path. What do you do? KUOW’s new podcast The Wild has advice on that; we spoke to host Chris Morgan.
David Lewis, Death of Ghost Land
The Pacific Northwest has a long history of white supremacy. Two years ago, reporter David Lewis wanted to know what groups still existed in Seattle. He tried regular reporting, and interviews. But no luck. So instead… he snuck in.
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Bill Radke
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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