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LaWonda Smith, a graduate of the UW's Leadership for Learning (EdD) program, will serve as executive director of the Race to the Top Road Map Consortium Project, a $40 million initiative in the Puget Sound.

Professor Megan Bang is working with Seattle Public Schools and the nonprofit Tilth Alliance to build learning gardens at three schools, while also creating a new model for an ecosystems curriculum and providing training for teachers.

A partnership between Seattle Public Schools, UW College of Education researchers and the Teaching Channel is helping teachers change the way they teach science.

The Northwest Asian Weekly Foundation's recent $100,000 gift to create an endowment for student scholarships at the UW College of Education is noted.

First-year education graduate student Alina Aleaga comments on her experience serving as a staff assistant at the Unversity of Washington's Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program (GO-MAP).

Shoreline Community College has always had strong ties to the University of Washington and today’s announcement of the UW’s first online-only degree reinforces that relationship.

The newly-released book "White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism" by Robin DiAngelo (PhD '04) ranked No. 8 on The New York Times list of bestselling paperback nonfiction in its first week of going on sale.

Association for Psychological Science president Douglas Medin called for “diverse perspectives” when he posed the profound, three-word question “Who owns science?” Dr. Megan Bang, assistant professor of educational psychology at the University of Washington College of Education, is quoted.

The Education, Communities and Organizations major is interning at Nathan Hale High School as he prepares for a career in teaching.

Alum Max Hunter writes about the complexities of solving the challenges of racial disparities in education and society.