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Chronicle of Higher Education
Professor Joy Williamson-Lott's new book "Jim Crow Campus: Higher Education and the Struggle for a New Southern Social Order," which explores the fight for academic freedom and free speech at colleges in the South in the 1960s and ’70s, is featured.
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Education Week
Virginia Berninger is among those interviewed at Handwriting in the 21st Century? An Educational Summit, where researchers presented findings in areas ranging from occupational therapy to neuroscience that document the impact of handwriting on kids' learning.
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Anti-Defamation League - Pacific Northwest
A gathering for local educators and community members that discussed various forms of injustices in our public education system was recently organized by the Banks Center for Educational Justice.
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Daily News Online
Rob MacGregor accepted the position of superintendent for the Kelso School District. MacGregor most recently served as Assistant Superintendent of the Renton School District in Renton, Washington. MacGregor served as an Assistant Superintendent in the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction for the state of Washington from 2001-2006. He was previously a principal for the Kittitas School District, a counselor for Ellensburg and Naches Valley School Districts and a classroom teacher for Thorp School District.
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UW News
UW College of Education alumni Tina Y. Gourd and Jennifer Gale de Saxe are co-editors of the new book “Radical Educators Rearticulating Education and Social Change: Teacher Agency and Resistance, Early 20th Century to the Present.”
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KUOW
Think back to when you were a kid and what grown–ups said when kids talked about you in a mean way. Chances are they said ignore it. Now research confirms what you may have suspected — that doesn't work. But a new study on Seattle–area schools shows adults can teach kids how to reduce malicious gossip on the playground. KUOW's Phyllis Fletcher reports.
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The Seattle Times
Julie McCleery, a researcher with the UW Center for Leadership in Athletics, comments on a new report investigating young people's access to sports, play and outdoor recreation in Seattle and King County, which she led as principal investigator.
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UWeek
UW profs urge central school district office personnel to get out to the schools in a new education report. The transformation was phenomenal, said one school superintendent who put the research into practice.
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UW News
Professors Roxanne Hudson, Carly Roberts and Elizabeth Sanders have been awarded a $1.4 million grant from the National Center for Special Education Research for a study to identify “malleable” reading factors — such as phonological awareness and letter sounds — among elementary students with intellectual disabilities, with the long-term aim of developing effective literacy interventions.
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C-SPAN
Fordham's April 9 event, Can Budget Cuts Catalyze Education Reform?featured Marguerite Roza from the University of Washington's Center on Reinventing Public Education.