In the News

Professor Ann Ishimaru endeavors to share how social, cultural, and racial dynamics influence interactions with children and families in and out of the classroom.

Professor Kenneth Zeichner comments on teacher education provisions in the Every Student Succeeds Act and the importance of maintaining high standards for all programs preparing new teachers.

Hands-on, forward-thinking learning experiences help propel UW College of Education to the top of the U.S. News & World Report rankings of the nation's best education schools.

The efforts of Ikran Ismail and Asha Warsame, who work at the UW College of Education's Childcare Quality & Early Learning Center, to explain Washington's Early Achievers standards in Somali providers’ own languages are cited.

Professor Jim Mazza, former president of the American Association of Suicidology, comments on a new study suggesting that, compared with early adolescents, younger children who die by suicide are more likely to be black boys.

Gary Cohn (PhD '99), superintendent of Everett Public Schools and Washington's 2017 Superintendent of the Year, answers questions about his district's success in raising graduation rates, the challenges of his role and more.

Alexander Sidorkin (PhD '96), recently named dean of Sacramento State University College of Education, is featured in a profile of his work.

Equity guides the work of Delila Leber (MIT '08) as a kindergarten dual language classroom teacher in Highline Public Schools.

A partnership between the University of Washington's Institute for Science + Math Education and the Seattle and Renton school districts to implement Next Generation Science Standards is cited as an example of how partnerships are advancing the learning of both practitioners and researchers.  

A $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education will enable the UW College of Education to recruit and train about five dozen bilingual teachers to work in dual-language programs in South King County, Bellevue and Shoreline.