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The Daily News
The Bezos Family Foundation has given a $3 million gift to the University of Washington to support a new professorship in early learning, offer financial aid to doctoral students and support promising early learning initiatives.
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Clarion Ledger
Mississippi’s Jackson Public Schools made deep cuts to the central office. Meredith Honig is quoted extensively on her research about similar changes at other urban school districts.
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Education Week
UW College of Education faculty members Kenneth Zeichner, Django Paris and Mia Tuan, along with alumni Gloria Ladson-Billings (MA ‘72) and Tyrone Howard (PhD '98), are listed among the nation's most influential scholars shaping educational practice and policy in the 2019 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings.
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q13fox.com
Although the task may seem basic, Dr. Virginia Berninger, a professor at the University of Washington says forming letters by hand is essential to brain development, communication and learning.
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Connecticut Post
Ken Zeichner, Boeing Professor of Teacher Education Emeritus, comments on the importance of creating structures to address the underlying challenges in educational systems.
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KING5
Students are getting a chance to see history in the making in their classrooms as they watch the turmoil happening now in Egypt. Teacher Michelle Zimmerman, College of Education alum '07, has done away with the history books, allowing history to unfold in front of the students' eyes.
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The Whole U
Fourth year PhD student Dalya Perez leads a group of University of Washington faculty, staff and students who gather to move, groove and otherwise get down during a lunch hour dance class at the Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center.
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UWeek
Audrey Osler, visiting scholar, to speak tomorrow for UW Center for Multicultural Education book talk. Osler argues that consulting young people is beneficial to the everyday life of schools and that the future health of democratic societies demands that we re-think relationships between adults and young people.
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Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
UW's Haring Center for Inclusive Education will participate in a statewide effort to provide coaching and mentoring to Washington's teachers on best practices for inclusion.
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NPR
Talk of the Nation interviewed James Banks, professor of diversity studies, in a segment on a new Arizona law that bans classes designed for students of a particular ethnicity.