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The Seattle Times

Professor Marilyn Cohen discusses establishing the Corona Multimedia Showcase, an international showcase encouraging children and their families to develop creative projects that reflect their lives during the pandemic.

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ParentMap

Professor Nancy Hertzog describes how to nurture your child's natural gifts and enhance his or her learning potential, while ensuring s/he receives age-apppropriate social and emotional support.

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The Conversation

Katie Headrick Taylor, an education researcher and professor of digital literacy, studies the education benefits and perils of digital gaming. These range from providing opportunities for collaborative problem-solving to displaying content that perpetuates racism and sexism. Headrick Taylor provides an analysis about gaming benefits and perils.

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Northwest Asian Weekly

Dr. Mia Tuan's leadership and research are noted in an announcement about her joining the University of Washington.

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Jews of Color Initiative

Alumni Dalya Perez (PhD '20, MEd '15) and Gage Gorsky (PhD '19), along with doctoral candidate Tory Brundage, recently completed a groundbreaking study highlighting the experiences of Jewish people of color designed to enable the Jewish community to implement more change for racial equity and inclusion. "Beyond the Count: Perspectives and Lived Experiences of Jews of Color" captures unprecedented findings and is the largest and most comprehensive study of Jewish people of color in the United States to date. The movement fighting racism within the Jewish community is heralding the study as a watershed moment and the study has already been featured through several outlets, including the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and The Jerusalem Post.

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University Council for Educational Administration

Ann O’Doherty, director of the UW Danforth Educational Leadership Program, discusses why the program offers a leadership performance guarantee for its graduates, which includes partnering Danforth principals with a coach during their first year.

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The Seattle Times

Professor Ann Ishimaru discussed going from “best” practices to “next” practices in parent-school engagement as a featured speaker during a conference for Washington State teachers, parents and education advocates.

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The Hechinger Report

Professor Virginia Berninger comments on the importance of teaching young children to type as well as learn handwriting.

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Forbes

Professor Elizabeth West comments on her new research finding that children from ethnically and culturally diverse families are not well represented in autism research.

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Crosscut

Philip Bell, director of the UW College of Education's Institute for Science and Mathematics Education, comments on the importance of equity in STEM education.