In the News

Alum Richelle Mead publishes the fourth installment in her Vampire Academy teen/young adult series.

Professor David Knight, whose research has explored the impact of the Great Recession on school funding, comments on the importance of maintaining equity as districts and states contend with a potential loss of revenue.

Advanced Placement, or A.P., is quickly becoming the accepted standard for college-level coursework in U.S. high schools. The Seattle Time’s Education Lab’s most recent story examines how a new form of A.P. instruction used at Sammamish High School in Bellevue and Garfield High School in Seattle is attempting to address these concerns. College of Education researchers are featured in this multimedia presentation.

Professor Manka Varghese, recognized this year as one of the University of Washington's Distinguished Teaching Award recipients, is included in a photo essay featuring the honorees.

Two recent documentaries on education in the U.S. — Two Million Minutes and Race to Nowhere — will be explored during a UW College of Education-sponsored film screening and panel discussion on Nov. 17.

The Seattle Times recently covered the struggles, challenges and impact that remote learning is having on families who have children with disabilities. Ilene Schwartz is quoted.

Tom Halverson, director of UW's Master in Education Policy program, comments on proposals being considered by the state legislature to improve the performance of the Seattle School Board.

Max Silverman of UW's Center for Educational Leadership discusses his family's plan for a six-month international trip and how other families can connect travel and learning.

Former dean of the UW College of Education Tom Stritikus was featured on PBS News Hour in an episode titled “Colorado college reckons with a troubling legacy of erasing Indigenous culture.” He highlights how there has been a reckoning in this country for institutions to critically examine their own racialized history and understand its implications. Currently serving as president of Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, Dr. Stritikus discusses that college's racialized history — one that has been shaped by its beginnings as an Indian boarding school.

Research specialist Naomi Wilson, parent of two elementary students in Seattle Public Schools, is co-author of an editorial about contract negotiations between the Seattle Education Association and Seattle Public Schools.