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Seattle Times
UW College of Ed grads Jennifer Wiley (Franklin High School principal) and Mia Williams (Aki Kurose Middle School principal) were just awarded the Foster Award for Excellence by the Seattle Alliance for Education. Each principal receives $50,000 of unrestricted money to spend on her school.
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Shanghai Ranking
The University of Washington College of Education is ranked No. 12 in the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects list for 2018, conducted by researchers at the Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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UW News
Professor Joy Williamson-Lott's research on activism in the 1960s, and how colleges and universities stifled student expression and faculty academic freedom, is featured in her new book “Jim Crow Campus: Higher Education and the Struggle for a New Southern Social Order.”
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UW Athletics
Keith Price finally gets tackled at UW's remarkable Experimental Education Unit. Huskies wow parents and staff at Children's Hospital. Plus life-skills training and more as UW football builds men in May.
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KUOW
Tom Halverson, director of the UW Master's in Education Policy program, discusses disparities in PTA funding and the margin of perceived competitive advantage – the schoolchild version of “all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.”
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KUOW
Last week Washington state won a $60 million federal grant for early learning. We take a closer look with leading experts on early childhood education in Washington and other states. How will the state spend the money? Will it help close the achievement gap for low–income kids? Gail Joseph, assistant professor of education psychology, is a guest.
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The Seattle Times
UW College of Education alumnus Shannon Hitch (EdD '18), director of Special Services in the Lake Washington School District, discussed her work with families during a more than 20-year career in special education during the Seattle Times' Ignite Education Lab event.
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Seattle Times
However many Teach for America recruits come to the Seattle area this fall, they'll likely earn their teaching certificates through a program at the University of Washington.
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Association for Women in Science Seattle
Jeanne Ting Chowning, senior director of science education training at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and a UW doctoral student in learning sciences and human development, will receive the 2019 AWIS Excellence in STEM Education/Outreach Award.
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Fast Company
Ahead of Teach for America's 20th-anniversary alumni summit in February, a look at the influentials who have emerged from the ranks of TFA vets. Dean Tom Stritikus is profiled.