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The Daily

Professor Joe Lott, who has helped establish a retention and graduation support program for male students of color at the UW called the Brotherhood Initiative, discusses his upcoming lecture.

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League of Education Voters

Professor Min Sun shared her recent study on black teachers’ retention and transfer patterns in North Carolina and discussed policy strategies for retaining and supporting effective black teachers in a webinar with Professor Deborah McCutchen providing perspective on how research can inform advocacy.

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The Seattle Times

Katie (Erickson) Ward (MEd '11) teaches at Hope Academy, an alternative program for ninth- and 10th-graders at Sequim Senior High School that offers an alternative for kids who struggle in standard classrooms.

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New America

Kristie Kauerz, director of the UW's National P-3 Center, discusses how the Washington P-3 Executive Leadership Certificate Program is advancing the leadership of principals and early learning center directors in a new multimedia guidebook.

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Leadership Magazine

Patty Maxfield (EdD '15), project director at the UW Center for Educational Leadership, describes the importance of developing a culture of learning and collaboration across schools to address specific learning needs of students.

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phys.org

The National Academy of Sciences recently released an updated national vision for K-12 science education learning goals. The latest version, made public April 9, was developed by a national team with input from thousands of teachers, scientists and other stakeholders, including Philip Bell, director of the University of Washington's Institute for Science and Math Education and the College of Education, and Andrew Shouse, associate director of the institute.

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Faculty & Staff Insider

Professor Gail Joseph (David B. Thorud Leadership Award) and undergraduate education major Andrew Vo (President’s Medal) were recently honored for their impact at the University of Washington.
 

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Sage Publications

The work of Dr. Marge Plecki, Dr. Ana Elfers and graduate research assistant Yugo Nakamura will appear in the November 2012 issue of the Journal of Teacher Education. Their article is entitled Using Evidence for Teacher Education Program Improvement and Accountability: An Illustrative Case of the Role of Value-Added Measures.

The authors consider what can be learned from limited forms of evidence for purposes of accountability and improvement of teacher education programs.  The work includes a review of the existing literature and an illustration of what can be learned from value-added measures as one form of evidence.  The authors discuss the need to shift the focus of accountability from simply responding to external requirements to developing internal practices that generate knowledge for improvement. 

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U.S. News

Gift funded by the Bezos Family Foundation, longtime supporters of early education, will support a new professorship and research into high-quality early learning.

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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.