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Gaelic USA

Kent Jewell, program support supervisor, writes about what it means for immigrant ethnic groups to call a place “home” and how engagement with ancestral tradition can lead to a better understanding of the history of the past and the unresolved challenges of the present.

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The Seattle Times

Three UW College of Education alumni—Shalini Miskelly (MIT '16), Nicholas Bradford (MEP '12) and Jordan Taitingfong '(MEd '08)—will be represented at the Ignite Education Lab storytelling event on February 8.

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The Seattle Times

The UW's Seattle Teacher Residency program, which prepares residents to become teachers in the context of, and for, classrooms in Seattle Public Schools, is highlighted for its success in improving teacher retention and diversity.

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Columns Magazine

Ned Porges, who started his doctoral program at UW College of Education in 1979, recently graduated after completing his dissertation on socio-politics of travel as experiential education.

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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.