From top: Walt Crowley in 2006; an undated self-portrait; with John Carlson (left) on KIRO-TV in 1986; and after chemotherapy in 2005. (Roger Hudson, Walt Crowley, Nick Gunderson, Marie McCaffrey)
The now-open Northwest Passage (top), extending from the Bering Strait at upper left, and John Everett Millais' <i>The Northwest Passage</i> (1874). (European Space Agency, Wikipedia)
Test scores are up, but there still are many public-school students who graduate unprepared for college or the workforce. And the WASL test requirement is not really enforced. A co-author of the 1993...
