In the News

Professor Meredith Honig comments on big-city districts that are piloting initiatives to expand the reach of their successful principals by allowing those leaders to manage two schools simultaneously.

Assistant professor of Education Foundations, Leadership and Policy David Knight co-penned a piece for the Seattle Times titled 3 key changes for progressive K-12 funding. David uses his expertise in education finance to discuss our state’s flawed school finance system and urges Washington legislators to make three key changes to the state’s finance system, including expanding the Learning Assistance Program (LAP), expanding the Local Effort Assistance program and addressing capital funding.

Professor Virginia Berninger discusses a University of Washington study on dysgraphia, dyslexia and other oral and written language learning disabilities that analyzes brain activity.

Katie Cavender (IAL '08), assistant commissioner for strategic communications with the Mountain West conference, discusses social media and communication strategy in a profile story.

Professor Virginia Berninger co-authors a column on research showing poverty is one of the leading causes of low school achievement in the United States.

Raphael Bernier, who teaches in the College's school psychology and educational psychology programs, is helping lead the nation’s largest-ever autism research study.

Efforts by the UW's Institute for Science & Mathematics Education to help different communities prepare for and access careers in technology are cited.

UW College of Education alumni Michael Bowman, Lorena Guillén and Kate Napolitan share insights from their article “Engaging and Working in Solidarity with Local Communities in Preparing the Teachers of their Children" in the Journal of Teacher Education.

UW College of Education Dean Mia Tuan was among the panelists at a Seattle Times LiveWire event exploring the future of K-12 education in Washington State.

A new study by the University of Washington's Center of Teaching and Policy has found a link between mentoring programs and higher retention rates for beginning teachers in Washington state.