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Mia Tuan, dean of the University of Washington College of Education, issued the following statement regarding the Trump Administration's September 5 decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

Children who read and write at home — whether for assignments or just for fun — are building long-term study and executive function skills, according to a paper from the University of Washington.

Tsewone Melaku discovered engineering in high school through a UW mentorship program.

Afnan Boutrid believes in the power of education to unite and heal. It's a belief reinforced in one of the world's most conflicted regions.

For elementary teachers, it’s an increasingly tricky question to contend with: How to address immigration, race, gender identity and other social justice issues that touch the lives and futures of their students?

School districts across the nation are turning to research to transform their central offices in ways that support better teaching and learning for all students.

Teens from marginalized communities often contend with strong cultural messages and under-resourced schools that discourage them from pursuing STEM learning.

How can schools move from being a source of inequity and harm to a source of community resurgence?

Most schools offer parents specific ways to help out: Join the PTA, chaperone a field trip, grade papers for a teacher or assist on a classroom art project.

For several years, Stacy Thomas (EdD ‘15) and her colleagues at Blaine School District watched with concern as approximately half of 3rd graders weren’t able to read at their grade level.