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Crosscut

The UW's Experimental Education Unit, a developmental preschool program that teaches kids with disabilities alongside kids without, is mentioned and the parent of student is interviewed.

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UW Arts and Sciences Perspectives

A collaboration between the UW and the Bellevue School District, designed to improve student engagement and performance in advanced placement (AP) courses, is now finding wider success.

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The News Tribune

Professor Meredith Honig notes that, despite school closures, students have still been learning during the pandemic and schools systems need to focus attention on those likely to fall through the cracks.

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Yakima Herald Republic

Virginia Berninger discusses how cursive writing can aid reading development as well as lead to improvements in spelling skills and composing writing samples.

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The Seattle Times

Professors Soojin Oh Park and Holly Schindler comment on a study they are designing which will provide a snapshot of the pandemic’s effects on children’s well-being.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The UW Center for Educational Leadership's coaching of teacher leaders in Pittsburgh Public Schools is cited.

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The Salt Lake Tribune

Alumna Irene Yoon wrote an op-ed published in The Salt Lake Tribune urging leadership in Utah to advance educational equity. Specifically, Yoon urges state leadership to reject Utah State Administrative Rule 277-328, which could be interpreted as banning all discussions about race in the state's public education systems. "Learning about histories and structures of inequity is about honoring and learning from the past, good, bad and in between, so that we can dream a better future," she argues. Yoon is an associate professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Utah.

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The International Examiner

Christine Tran discusses her journey to studying school nutrition as a graduate student in UW's Educational Leadership and Policy program.

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Crosscut

The College of Education’s Native Education Certificate Program was featured in a Crosscut article titled “After 7 years, WA tribal history curriculum still not fully implemented.” In the article, Marjorie James, Tulalip Tribe’s curriculum and engagement manager, says she would like to see something like the UW Native Education Certificate Program implemented on a district level so that educators are being taught by leading Native education researchers. Overall, the article highlights how the state legislature has failed to allocate funding for Native education curriculum, so now the financial burden has been placed on Washington tribes and school districts.

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The Ginger & Barry Ackerley Foundation

The College of Education's partnership in the Seattle Teacher Residency is discussed, as well as a recent paper by UW education professor Ken Zeichner that notes teacher residencies as an example of efforts to revamp teacher education programs.