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Professor Gail Joseph discusses the policy and practice changes needed to make high-quality online bachelor’s degrees in early childhood education or a related major accessible to all lead pre-K teachers across the United States.

A UW College of Education study exploring teacher retention and mobility in Washington state is referenced.

On June 15th, Holli and Edgar Martinez were honored at the University of Washington College of Education’s graduation ceremony as winners of its Distinguished Service Award.

Professor Holly Schindler's research is finding better ways to support dads in strengthening their parenting skills.

Seven school districts in King County, which banded together three years ago to raise the number of students who graduate from college, have won a four-year, $40 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help them achieve that goal. The UW Dream Project, which serves all seven school districts by partnering nearly 600 undergraduate mentors with 1,800 high school students at 16 schools, was named as one of the community partners that will receive funding from the grant over the next four years.

The Bezos family has gifted the University of Washington College of Education with $3 million to create an endowment for early-learning research.

As kids, we usually learn about nature from a decidedly human point of view. The world exists in relation to us. The conventional wisdom has been that this is a universal way the mind develops its awareness of the natural world. But an eclectic group of researchers are challenging that. The team is made up of psychologists from Northwestern University, and researchers from the Menominee Reservation and the American Indian Center of Chicago. They started looking carefully at the way Native and non-Native children come to learn about nature. They found some distinctive differences. Megan Bang's research is prominently featured. 

Professor Min Sun's research exploring the retention of black teachers is noted as one of 11 discoveries that changed the way people think about education in 2018.

Olivia Gruver, a senior early childhood and family studies major, is eyeing the 2019 world championships and 2020 Summer Olympics after her record-setting vault.