Jim Banks, Geneva Gay, and Cherry Banks were listed as top scholars by their peers in a recent survey of multicultural education professors.
Community engagement, accountability, real-world experience key to UW teacher training
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Great UWeek feaure delves into a discussion with new Director of Teacher Education 
Ken Zeichner about the many elements required to fully prepare a new teacher for the classroom.
College Alum, Georgie Bright Kunkel, to be featured on Evening Magazine
Monday, October 19, 2009
On Monday, October 19th, Georgie Bright Kunkel will be featured on Evening Magazine on Channel 5 at 7:00 p.m. Georgie is the oldest standup comic in Seattle, has been a guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show, and has appeared with her chorale group at Carnegie Hall. Her first film, Caregiving Journey, will soon be ready for distribution. The film is a record of her caregiving experience with her late husband Norman C. Kunkel, also a UW graduate.
Alum Named Hero in the Classroom
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Former College of Ed PhD student, Chris Robert, is named Hero in the Classroom and will be honored at a Seahawks game.
Report from National Network for Educational Renewal
Saturday, October 17, 2009
The conference was held October 14-17, 2009 in Bellevue, WA. Over 400 people attended, including many school district superintendents and other college of education deans and faculty. Congratulations to Dean Wasley, Eugene Edgar (conference co-chair) as well as other COE staff, faculty and students who presented and volunteered there to help make this conference a success. See highlights including video and photos captured at this year's NNER Conference.
Report from the Center on Reinventing Public Education
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Portfolio school districts are promising new developments but they still have big problems to solve, is how Dr. Paul Hill describes reforms in the four big cities being studied by his team at the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE).
Roza Testimony for House Committee on Education and Labor
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Marguerite Roza testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor at the hearing entitled Teacher Equity: Effective Teachers for All Children.
Marguerite Roza testifies before Committee on Education
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Marguerite Roza testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor at the hearing entitled Teacher Equity: Effective Teachers for All Children.
Will lowering GPA requirements help students or society?
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
College of Ed faculty member Tom Halverson weighs in on current debate over lowering GPA requirements for graduating seniors. The district says this is part of a larger plan they are presenting to the school board. Learn more about this controversial topic.
College of Ed alum, Craig Romano, publishes book
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Career paths ordinarily do not follow footpaths. Author Craig Romano, though, loves being an exception, and a fairly unlikely one to boot ?~@~T a Connecticut-born writer treading in the footsteps of revered Northwest guidebook icons Harvey Manning and Ira Spring.