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Education News Colorado

Colorado state Sen. Mike Johnston, D-Denver, is proposing legislation to overhaul Colorado’s nearly 20-year-old school funding system that will include a “trigger” so it won’t go into effect unless voters are willing to fund it. This decision comes on the heels of a report from the School Finance Partnership, which includes Marguerite Roza. Roza advocates the use of funding as incentive to spur improvement.  

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UW News

Two books by College of Education faculty — “Experience Inquiry: 5 Powerful Strategies, 50 Practical Experiences” by Kimberly Mitchell and “Leading for Professional Learning: What Successful Principals do to Support Teaching Practice” by Anneke Markholt, Joanna Michelson and Stephen Fink — are featured.

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UW Graduate School
The UW Graduate School profiles Foxy and Jason Davison.
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Connecticut Post

Ken Zeichner, Boeing Professor of Teacher Education Emeritus, comments on the importance of creating structures to address the underlying challenges in educational systems.

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KING5
Students are getting a chance to see history in the making in their classrooms as they watch the turmoil happening now in Egypt. Teacher Michelle Zimmerman, College of Education alum '07, has done away with the history books, allowing history to unfold in front of the students' eyes.
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The Whole U

Fourth year PhD student Dalya Perez leads a group of University of Washington faculty, staff and students who gather to move, groove and otherwise get down during a lunch hour dance class at the Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center.

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UWeek
Audrey Osler, visiting scholar, to speak tomorrow for UW Center for Multicultural Education book talk. Osler argues that consulting young people is beneficial to the everyday life of schools and that the future health of democratic societies demands that we re-think relationships between adults and young people.
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Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction

UW's Haring Center for Inclusive Education will participate in a statewide effort to provide coaching and mentoring to Washington's teachers on best practices for inclusion.

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NPR

Talk of the Nation interviewed James Banks, professor of diversity studies, in a segment on a new Arizona law that bans classes designed for students of a particular ethnicity.

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The Seattle Times

Professor Min Sun answers questions about the role that researchers play in public schools, efforts to close opportunity gaps in Seattle’s schools and more.