As a completely outside observer I'd be inclined to say that no, things aren't going well because the only Feds run business that I care about, the Bomber, is closed indefinitely.
3:25:44 PM   []

• What is needed to prepare students for UW CS?
• Was your school's equipment appropriate?
• Was your teacher qualified?
• Were you taught the 'right' things?
• Did testing actually test what you learned?
• Did the tests prepare you for tests at UW?

...The other day we had three computer science high school teachers come in to talk to our class about their curriculum, equipment, etc. and I anticipated the class being really boring. But, I was actually really drawn to the subject. For instance, how boggling is it that a kinesiology grad is now teaching computer science when they only had one 'computer' course in university? Or that people donate machines to schools but they just sit there since no one knows how to hook them up? Or that a teacher can't post to his school's website but the students can?

It's clear that the ball is being dropped but is the true of just CS or all high school courses?

Of course I went to a private school so I was a little insulated from the realities of a public school comp sci education.

One suggestion I have would be to implement a program whereby university students volunteer to be paired with a comp sci high school teacher. The teacher could then email the student with questions on languages, equipment, suggested assignment problems. It would give the teacher a resource from which they could get answers and assistance from quickly.
2:38:45 PM   []

Since their first meeting at the end of January, the two sides have corresponded through lawyers.

So if they opened our school bar tomorrow and the only catch was that in five years it'd be closed down would that be okay with you?

Anyhow, the way I understand it (and I could be very wrong) is that the university has violated liquor license laws by essentially sub-contracting out liquor sales at the student bars to the Feds and that is why the bars remained closed. I.e. If you're not the corporation who holds the liquor license then you shouldn't be serving the liquor. The solution is either an administration run student pub (over Fed's dead body) or the Fed's get their own liquor license (over Admin's dead body).
2:28:09 PM   []