In the News

Affiliate professor Megan Bang is featured in an article in The Daily Northwestern titled “ETHS stopped a Native student from walking at graduation. Family members say it indicates a need for schoolwide change.” The article features Megan’s son, Nimkii, and how his high school administrators did not allow him to walk at graduation because he added an eagle feather to his cap and traditional Ojibwe floral beadwork to his cap and stole. “I couldn’t just give up my eagle feather in the hands of a stranger,” Nimkii Curley said. “I couldn’t give up my identity like that.” “For us, him graduating and walking and doing what he’s done is an act of leadership,” Megan said. “It’s actually an act of community healing and familial healing.” Megan also speaks about this educational injustice and her son’s act of leadership in the Chicago Sun Times, The Epoch Times and ABC7. 

Dafney Blanca Dabach investigates how teachers and their students of different citizenship statuses navigate tensions in formal state-sponsored citizenship education.

The UW College of Education's doctoral program in school psychology has been ranked among the nation's top 25 programs, with special notice for its emphasis on social-emotional health.

What operating principles should be kept in mind for building sustainable research-practice partnerships? Philip Bell, Shauna C. Larson Chair in Learning Sciences, offers four suggestions for short- and long-term success.

A three-video series created by the UW's Jessica Thompson and Jen Richards provides a glimpse inside kindergarten and 1st/2nd-grade classrooms that are developing scientific models.

Early Childhood and Family Studies majors Kimberley Banks and Julie Campos were among UW students who visited Monroe Correctional Complex as part of the honors course Education Inside Prison.

Bellevue teacher Lane Lopus (MIL '16) and Walter Parker, professor of education, discuss how teachers are addressing politics during the presidential election.

Professor Philip Bell, co-principal investigator for the "Advancing Coherent and Equitable Systems of Science Education" project, comments on the new effort to help all students benefit from the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).

Liza Rickey (MIT '03), science and STEM curriculum specialist at Issaquah School District, describes how her district hosted a family engineering night at 15 elementary schools to strengthen family engagement.

Work by UW College of Education faculty members John Bransford, Susan Nolen and Walter Parker developing the Knowledge in Action curriculum is noted.