Our Best High Schools

Our Best High Schools <p><a href="../../../real-estate/articles/high-schools-november-2010/"><strong>Grading Our High Schools:</strong></a> How Seattle schools are changing the way kids learn, plus test scores, class size, and specialties for 128 public and private schools; <a href="../../../issues/archives/articles/seattle-prep-amanda-knox-1210/"><strong>School of Knox:</strong></a> As former UW student and convicted murderer Amanda Knox comes up for appeal in an Italian courtroom, her most vigorous supporters come from her old high school; <a href="../../../health-and-fitness/articles/adventures-in-spa-treatments/"><strong>X-Treme Pampering:</strong></a> 16 ways to get peeled, pummeled, and pampered, and emerge looking youthful, relaxed, and ready for your close-up; and <a href="../../../home-and-garden/articles/holiday-party-decorating-1210/"><strong>Home for the Holidays:</strong></a> Party designers show how you can go all swanky with a silvery soiree for urban sophisticates or go uber lumberjacky with a plaid-mad supper.</p>

In this issue:

Arts & Culture

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Pigskin Perp

Seattle Times reporters Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry, from their book, Scoreboard, Baby, about the thug-riddled 2000 Huskies’ championship-winning football team.

11/18/2010

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The Facebook Comic

You don’t publish graphic novels—and allegedly not pay your artists—without making a few enemies.

11/18/2010

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The Perfect Party

Here’s who we’d invite if we could entertain this month’s most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.

11/18/2010

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Greenback Gifts

Have yourself a mercenary little Christmas.

11/17/2010 By Kathryn Robinson

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Scent of a Candy Man

Willy Wonka gets the Smell-O-Vision treatment.

11/15/2010 By Laura Dannen

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Raaalphie!

A Christmas Story gets the musical treatment.

11/15/2010

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Desk Jockeying

Fact: Outside The Office, Rainn Wilson and Craig Robinson refuse to fight.

11/15/2010 By Laura Dannen

Best of the City

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High Schools

78 Public and 50 Private Schools Graded

07/25/2012 With Kathryn Robinson, Clancey Denis, and Hilary Meyerson By Matthew Halverson

Eat & Drink

Occasions

Where to Drop While Shopping

11/16/2010 By Kathryn Robinson

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Neighborhood Hot Spot: Chloé Bistrot

11/15/2010 By Kathryn Robinson

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Not Your Grandma’s Punch

Redeeming real sherry, one cocktail at a time.

11/15/2010 By Jessica Voelker

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Beauty at the Beast

Old World finery takes a magical culinary tour at La Bête.

11/15/2010 By Kathryn Robinson

Editor's Note

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A Note from the Editor

11/19/2010 By Katherine Koberg

Health & Wellness

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Downward-Facing Demon

A local pastor says yoga is evil. Does he have a point?

11/15/2010 By Jessica Voelker

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X-Treme Pampering

Adventures in Spa Treatments

11/07/2010 By Christopher Werner and Laura Dannen

Inbox

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Letters to the Editor

11/19/2010

News & City Life

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High Schools

78 Public and 50 Private Schools Graded

11/19/2010 With Kathryn Robinson, Clancey Denis, and Hilary Meyerson By Matthew Halverson

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The Holdout

The mayor and the council flex their political muscles.

11/19/2010 By Eric Scigliano

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We Got Game

11/18/2010 By Matthew Halverson

High Schools 2010

The New School Plan

School enrollment in Seattle just got simpler, but for some parents it causes more problems than it solves.

11/18/2010 By Matthew Halverson

High Schools 2010

One Size Fits Some

When all students learn the same thing, will they be smarter?

11/17/2010 By Matthew Halverson

High Schools 2010

Talk Supe

Seattle Public Schools superintendent Maria Goodloe–Johnson stands firm, even as her teachers lose faith in her leadership.

11/16/2010 By Matthew Halverson

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The New Bids on the Block

11/16/2010

High Schools 2010

Geek Boot Camp

Cleveland High reboots with a new tech-heavy curriculum.

11/15/2010 By Matthew Halverson

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Court Marshal

Lorenzo Romar, UW Basketball’s Alpha Dawg

11/15/2010 By Matthew Halverson

High Schools 2010

Smart and Smarter

How one West Seattle mom challenged Chief Sealth to be more challenging.

11/14/2010 By Matthew Halverson

High Schools 2010

6 Ways for Seattle Schools to Score Higher

11/13/2010

High Schools 2010

Parents As Search Engines

When the goal is private school, start the search early.

11/12/2010 By Kathryn Robinson

High Schools 2010

Private Lives

A crash course in private school programs.

11/11/2010 By Clancey Denis

High Schools 2010

Grading Our High Schools

11/10/2010 By Judy Naegeli, Alexandra Notman, Clancey Denis, and Mary Pritchard

Feature

School of Knox

Why is Seattle Prep defending a former student convicted of murder?

11/08/2010 By James Ross Gardner

Style & Shopping

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Family Value

11/15/2010 By Laura Cassidy

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Natural History

Black Ball Line’s unlikely partnership redefines Northwest Modern.

11/15/2010 By Laura Cassidy

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Party at Your Place

Designers set the mood this season with a silver soiree and a come-one-come-all plaid-mad supper.

11/06/2010 By Jessica Voelker

Travel & Outdoors

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Billy Got Gruff

The deadliest creature in the Olympics is a snowy-white vegetarian.

11/15/2010 By Eric Scigliano

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Holiday Sleepovers

Your December destination? You’re already there.

11/15/2010 By Olivia Margoshes

Web Exclusives

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Rainn Wilson and Craig Robinson Respond to Reader Questions

11/19/2010 By Laura Dannen