In the News

Professor Virginia Berninger comments on her research into print and cursive writing and their impact on student learning.

Three UW College of Education alumni—Shalini Miskelly (MIT '16), Nicholas Bradford (MEP '12) and Jordan Taitingfong '(MEd '08)—shared stories about inclusion, using conflict to improve relationships and being a teacher of color at Ignite Education Lab.

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.

There's a small school at the University of Washington where many kids with developmental disabilities first learn to talk, count and play. The kids learn these skills in classes with their typically–developing peers, from birth through kindergarten. KUOW's Ann Dornfeld reports from the EEU: the Experimental Education Unit.