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Road Map Race to the Top

LaWonda Smith, a graduate of the UW's Leadership for Learning (EdD) program, will serve as executive director of the Race to the Top Road Map Consortium Project, a $40 million initiative in the Puget Sound.

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The Seattle Times

Professor Megan Bang is working with Seattle Public Schools and the nonprofit Tilth Alliance to build learning gardens at three schools, while also creating a new model for an ecosystems curriculum and providing training for teachers.

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THE Journal

A partnership between Seattle Public Schools, UW College of Education researchers and the Teaching Channel is helping teachers change the way they teach science.

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Northwest Asian Weekly

The Northwest Asian Weekly Foundation's recent $100,000 gift to create an endowment for student scholarships at the UW College of Education is noted.

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The Daily

First-year education graduate student Alina Aleaga comments on her experience serving as a staff assistant at the Unversity of Washington's Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program (GO-MAP).

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Shoreline Community College

Shoreline Community College has always had strong ties to the University of Washington and today’s announcement of the UW’s first online-only degree reinforces that relationship.

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Beacon Broadside

The newly-released book "White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism" by Robin DiAngelo (PhD '04) ranked No. 8 on The New York Times list of bestselling paperback nonfiction in its first week of going on sale.

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KUOW

There's a small school at the University of Washington where many kids with developmental disabilities first learn to talk, count and play. The kids learn these skills in classes with their typically–developing peers, from birth through kindergarten. KUOW's Ann Dornfeld reports from the EEU: the Experimental Education Unit.

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IslandWood

Joe Petrick (MEd '04), an alumnus of the UW and IslandWood's Education for Environment and Community graduate program, is now serving as vice president of field education at the Teton Sciences Schools.

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Seattle Times

Washington politicians have abdicated their leadership role in higher education, leaving the state with a disjointed system that doesn't produce enough bachelor's degrees and forces employers to go out of state — and even out of the country — to find skilled workers. Bill Zumeta, one of the co-authors of the forthcoming book, "Financing Higher Education," is quoted.