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UW News

Professor Joy Williamson-Lott's research on activism in the 1960s, and how colleges and universities stifled student expression and faculty academic freedom, is featured in her new book “Jim Crow Campus: Higher Education and the Struggle for a New Southern Social Order.”

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UW Athletics

 

Keith Price finally gets tackled at UW's remarkable Experimental Education Unit. Huskies wow parents and staff at Children's Hospital. Plus life-skills training and more as UW football builds men in May.

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KUOW

Tom Halverson, director of the UW Master's in Education Policy program, discusses disparities in PTA funding and the margin of perceived competitive advantage – the schoolchild version of “all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.”

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KUOW

Last week Washington state won a $60 million federal grant for early learning. We take a closer look with leading experts on early childhood education in Washington and other states. How will the state spend the money? Will it help close the achievement gap for low–income kids? Gail Joseph, assistant professor of education psychology, is a guest.

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The Daily Times

Professor Katie Headrick Taylor is leading a project in which Tennessee high school students are uploading Alcoa and Maryville history into a mobile app.

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Center on Human Development and Disability
A new Center on Quality Teaching and Learning that will be headquartered at the University of Washington is designed to improve teaching practices in Head Start programs. Susan Sandall, Ph.D., an associate professor of special education, whose research focuses on developing effective teaching practices for young children with disabilities and how to prepare teachers and other Head Start personnel to work with those youngsters, is the co-director of this new center.
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The Orange County Register

Melissa (Sweet) Brennan, a 1999 graduate of the UW's Special Education Teacher Preparation Program, has been named 2019 Orange County California Teacher of the Year.

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Sport & Society
Herbert Hoffman, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies alum, co-authored a new book, Coaching Principles for the Development of Championship Teams: On and Beyond the Pitch. He co-authored the book with Peter R.J. Fewing, who served as head men’s soccer coach for Seattle University from 1998 – 2006.
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The New York Times

Ilene Schwartz, director of the UW's Haring Center for Inclusive Education, comments on the case in a Washington school district.

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Seattle Times
Seattle Schools welcome several College of Ed alums to permanent positions. Stacey Tate Loftin is now principal for Coe Elementary. Clover Codd is the permanent principal at Alki Elementary. Henterson Carlisle is the permanent principal at Madison Middle School.