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About the College
Making a Difference
Teaching Revolution
We must reimagine what’s possible. A just society demands that every child has the opportunity for success.
Research That Matters is an annual publication highlighting faculty research at the University of Washington College of Education. This edition, An Education in Education: Putting Teacher Preparation Programs to the Real-World Test, focuses on teacher education. Through rigorous research, the College gathered real-world evidence to shape our Teacher Education Program. We worked to ensure that the teachers we prepare would positively impact the academic achievement of all the students we serve.
We’ve dramatically increased the number of scholarships for teachers in training, making it possible to recruit the best and brightest candidates. By creating need-based diversity scholarships and support programs, the Edgar and Holli Martinez Foundation feels it can empower students from underrepresented populations to not only pursue higher education for their own benefit, but also positively impact the students and communities they serve. And the Leonore Annenberg Teaching Fellowship of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, provides $30,000 fellowships for math and science teacher candidates of the highest caliber, character, and
Interested in becoming a part of the teaching revolution? Learn more about our innovative Teacher Education program.
We constantly ask, “What Is the measure of a good teacher?” With pressing demands to improve teacher quality, it’s a fair question to ask. Obvious answers revolve around credentials, advanced degrees, professional training, years on the job, and classroom scores on high-stakes achievement tests. But the question — posed against a challenging educational landscape — is not so simple nor so easily quantified, as the work of two tenacious University of Washington researchers illustrates.