Literacy gaps, connected to social and material inequities, divide today’s classrooms. Our researchers are exploring new, evidence-based strategies to boost reading and writing skills inside those classrooms.
Advancing Educational Justice is the flagship annual publication of the University of Washington College of Education, highlighting the depth and breadth of research being conducted at the College.
2012: Turning the Page: A New Look at 21st Century Literacy Instruction
2011: Learning Across the Lifespan
Understanding education across the lifespan enables our researches to design smart, system-wide strategies for closing the achievement gap.
2010: Follow the Leaders: New Directions in Educational Policy
Research indicates that strong education leadership can have a major impact on improving learning gaps, especially in the lowest-performing schools.
2009: An Education in Education: Putting Teacher Preparation Programs to the Real-World Test
The field of teacher education has always sparked impassioned debate, from criticism of the first teacher preparation schools in the 1800s to cries over the “miseducation” of U.S. teachers arising in the 1960s. At no time has the scrutiny of formal teacher preparation been as intense, however, as it is today.
2008: A Fair Start: Equity and Excellence in Early Childhood Education
We’re making an investment in Washington’s future here at the University with our exciting new undergraduate degree. Our early Childhood and Family studies program will give a new generation of early childhood education specialists the skills they need to ensure that all young children get the quality education they deserve, the education they will need in this new century.
2007: Taking Measure: Does Modern Math Education Add Up?
Our faculty are working to ensure that elementary teachers graduating from our program have a deeper understanding of the math they will be required to teach and that secondary teachers are prepared to help students who excel in math, as well as those who find it difficult. And they are preparing new Ph.D.s to fill the need for more professors in our colleges and universities at the same time that they work with practicing teachers to explore new curricula and instructional methods.
2006: Closing the Gap: New Strategies for a Changing 21st Century Classroom
Because educational research is situated in the practice of teachers and schools and in the learning of students, their collective work must inform our research as much as our research informs their work. This publication explores the intimate relationship between research and the real lives of students and educators. We hope that you will join the effort to strengthen the public school system in this state and in our nation. We believe that all our futures depend on it.