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The University of Washington College of Education is No. 15 in the 2020 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, which assess universities by their performance in education, teacher training and academic studies in education subjects.

Central offices of urban school districts have been able to shift their focus from administration and compliance to improvement of teaching and learning districtwide by making five key changes, according to a new report by researchers from the UW College of Education.

Professor Ed Taylor reflects on the teaching of Martin Luther King Jr. and the importance of connecting with other groups of people and striving for ways to build commonality.

Portfolio school districts are promising new developments but they still have big problems to solve, is how Dr. Paul Hill describes reforms in the four big cities being studied by his team at the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE).

Four new books written or edited by UW College of Education faculty and researchers are noted along with a Q&A with Professor James A. Banks.

NYTimes editorial praises the Robinson Center's program for work with seventh and eight graders. The University of Washington has long allowed a select group of seventh and eighth graders, none older than 14, to skip high school entirely and enter a one-year “transition school” in which they live at home to ease the social adjustment while taking courses on campus taught by an experienced faculty. The courses include physics and precalculus along with English, history and ethics. In the following year, transition-school graduates become regular full-time students.

Professor Min Sun shares lessons from her research on the impact of federal stimulus money for schools during the Great Recession and how those lessons could help policymakers rebuild and reinvest in the most disadvantaged schools and communities.

UW College of Education graduate Rachelle Moore discusses her briefing with government officials on Capitol Hill about teacher preparation and the Seattle Teacher Residency.

Families of color are getting together to improve remote education. Ann Ishimaru, associate professor of education and Regina Elmi executive director of the Somali Parent Education Board share some of the ideas.