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Thomas Halverson, director of the UW Master's in Education Policy program, discusses his recent opinion column arguing for high schools to provide students with a greater variety pathways to postsecondary and career options.

Imagine a high school that spends $328 per student for math courses and $1,348 per cheerleader for cheerleading activities. Or a school where the average per-student cost of offering ceramics was $1,608; cosmetology, $1,997; and such core subjects as science, $739.

The design and theory of action behind the University of Washington's Danforth program, winner of the UCEA's 2019 Exemplary Educational Leadership Preparation Award, is discussed.

Marguerite Roza is quoted in Christian Science Monitor. If [top administrators] say you have to fire all your librarians, but you happen to have this really great librarian who's doing more for reading instruction than anyone else ... it's not really useful, says Marguerite Roza, a senior scholar at the University of Washington's Center on Reinventing Public Education. The flexibility allows the school to ... maybe even do things better.

Debi Talukdar, a UW College of Education doctoral student, contributed to a new guide helping families broach big questions and feelings that may be surfacing as kids experience the current realities of sickness and isolation.

Everyone has a moment when past experiences tumble together and point the way forward. For Kimberly Mitchell, Special Assistant to Dean Tom, Stritikus, that happened in 2005, as she stood in front of a crowd of suburban schoolteachers who folded their arms across their chests in disgust, as Mitchell tried to explain her concept of “inquiry-based” classroom instruction.

Debi Talukdar, a doctoral student in multicultural education and philosopher-in-residence at Seattle's Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, highlights work Talukdar has been involved with through the UW Center for Philosophy for Children.

The life and work of the late UW professor John I. Goodlad, a giant in 20th-century education and former elected president of AACTE, is highlighted.

David S. Knight, assistant professor of education, finance and policy at the UW College of Education, co-wrote an Op-Ed piece focused on prioritizing education funding. “The Biden administration must make public education its top domestic priority because Covid has exacerbated pre-existing social and educational inequities and, if left unaddressed, will lead to serious harm to our children - our nation’s greatest asset."

Marquita Prinzing '10, a fourth grade teacher at Dearborn Park Elementary, was among those featured during an evening of teacher storytelling on Feb. 25.