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More room to romp: New play courts open at the Experimental Education Unit
University Week
June 25, 2009
There were a few official remarks, some hearty applause, and then it was time to scamper and play!
25 to Watch
Diverse Education
June 11, 2009
Diverse Education features 25 up-and-coming leaders, many of whom are carrying the diversity mantle forward in an avowed commitment to progress. Frances Contreras is profiled.
The Latino Education Crisis: The Consequences of Failed Social Policies
Teachers College Record
May 28, 2009
The Latino Education Crisis [co-aouthored by Frances Contreras] tracks the missed opportunities for Latino students along the educational pipeline and across various social contexts... The book is easily among the most comprehensive resources on Latino education today.
Growing outcry over teacher cuts
KING5
June 3, 2009
UW Education Expert Morva McDonald interviewed on Seattle's KING5 TV..
Early Learning Conference
University Week
June3, 2009
Educators, counselors, lawmakers, advocacy groups and parents will meet at the UW Friday and Saturday for the UW Conference on Early Learning, to be held at UW Tower.
Class Notes: Smile, professors! You're on YouTube
University Week
May 28, 2009
Eugene Edgar and Scott Macklin team-teach exciting course, YouTube Goes to College.
Education stimulus dollars will affect states differently
Center on Reinventing Public Education
May 19, 2009
Federal stimulus dollars targeting education will impact states differently, depending on each state’s fiscal condition, according to a new state-by-state analysis from the Center on Reinventing Public Education.
Layoffs hitting Washington teachers hard
Seattle Times
May 10, 2009
Districts across the state are either slashing teaching jobs or planning to put a freeze on hiring, to make up $800 million in public-school cutbacks made by the Washington Legislature in the session that just ended. Cap Peck, director of teacher education, is quoted.
Outdoor learning experiences aid cognitive development of young children, says Puget Sound expert
UW Outreach
April 30, 2009
Dr. John Haskin to speak at the University of Washington Early Learning Conference, June 5-6 in Seattle. College of Education is hosting the conference.
Plugged In: UW is tweeting its way into a new social media ecosystem
University Week
April 30, 2009
Social media is bulldozing the time-worn landscape of traditional media, one 140-character "tweet" at a time. Read on to learn how some UW units, including College of Education, are using Facebook, Twitter, and more to teach, advertise and publish news.
Schools struggle with method to reduce teaching staffs
The San Diego Union-Tribune
April 27, 2009
Seniority-based layoffs also fail as an efficient cost-cutting measure, said Marguerite Roza of the Center for Reinventing Public Education at the University of Washington. Roza issued a report in February concluding that seniority-based layoffs exacerbate job losses.
Stimulus money puts teachers in layoff limbo
Christian Science Monitor
April 21, 2009
Marguerite Roza's research on education layoffs is cited.
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Performance-Based College Financing Systems Often Die Young, Researchers Say
Chronicle of Higher Education
April 21, 2009
Schemes for tying state support of public colleges to performance tend to share the same flaw: they are vulnerable to dying off before they can show how well they perform. William M. Zumeta, a professor of public affairs and education at the University of Washington, is mentioned.
Pedagogy is the priority at the annual UW Teaching and Learning Symposium
University Week
April 21
College of Education student Jessica Salvidor presents at the UW Teaching and Learning Symposium.
Education Chief to Spend Billions to ‘Transform’ U.S. Schools
Bloomberg News
April 16, 2009
Education Secretary Arne Duncan plans to spend a record $5 billion to transform U.S. schools by rewarding states for innovation, providing merit pay to teachers and creating a national scorecard to identify failing schools. Marguerite Roza is quoted.
Marguerite Roza event on C-SPAN
C-SPAN
April 9, 2009
Fordham’s April 9 event—”Can Budget Cuts Catalyze Education Reform”—began airing on C-SPAN at 10 am this morning. The event featured Marguerite Roza from the University of Washington’s Center on Reinventing Public Education.
Santa Clara County schools send out more than 1,000 layoff notices
San Jose Mercury News
April 8, 2009
More than 1,000 South Bay teachers, administrators and school workers received warnings this week that they could be laid off — more than double the number who received such notices last year. College of Education Assistant Professor Marguerite Roza is quoted.
New Everett schools chief gets good grades at current job
Everett Herald
March 21, 2009
Gary Cohn, who graduated from the College of Education in 1999, is the new superintendent of Everett School District. Cohn and his wife, Sue Cohn, are both graduates of the College of Education.
Experimental Education Unit to become research center with planned gift from founding director
University Week
March 12, 2009
Retired UW Professor Norris Haring founded the Experimental Education Unit in 1965. Now, thanks to an endowment from him and his wife, the school will be able to fund 15 graduate fellowships a year as it becomes the Norris and Dorothy Haring Center for Applied Research and Training in Education.
Washington Century: A long way to go - Seattle PI Editorial Board
Seattle PI
March 5, 2009
An op-ed by the Seattle PI Editorial Board praises the work of the University of Washington's Center on Reinventing Public Education.
A pair of capstone honors for College of Education's Joseph Jenkins
University Week
March 5, 2009
The Council for Exceptional Children and the council's Division of Learning Disabilities have both honored Special Education Professor Joe Jenkins for his life's work on helping kids with learning disabilities.
Scott Macklin's New film, "Masizakhe: Building Each Other"
University Week
February 5, 2009
College of Education C.T.O. Scott Macklin's new film, Masizakhe: Building Each Other, will screen at the REAL TO REEL Film Festival at 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 14, in the VERA Project, a music and arts center run by and for youth at Seattle Center. The film is about spoken word poetry and hip hop in South Africa.
State colleges make a major push to reach Latino booming population
Seattle Times
February 1, 2009
The growth in the numbers of young Latinos in this state is staggering. Yet, as UW assistant professor Frances Contreras notes, while Latinos now account for about 15 percent of all public-school students, they make up only 2.7 percent of teachers.
Where do children learn science? Everywhere, new research shows
University Week
January 29, 2009
While talking about his recent research, Philip Bell of the College of Education tells a story about a girl who loved to play with the mortar and pestle her grandmother used for cooking when the two visited every Saturday, and how that interest evolved.
President Obama's Dreams from My Father named Common Book for 2009
University Week
January 22, 2009
"The story is that of a search for identity, identity as an individual and identity as a citizen," said Gene Edgar, Professor in the College of Education and one of two co-chairs of the 18-member Common Book Committee.
NRC Study“Learning Science in Informal Environments”
National Science Foundation
January 14, 2009
Anyone who has visited a science museum, gone on a nature walk, or watched a science program on public television knows that one need not be in a classroom or lecture hall to learn about science. Associate Professor Philip Bell hopes this study will show that cultivating scientific knowledge occurs “across the breadth of a person’s life.”
Frances Conteras: Professor, Activist & Homegirl
Diverse
January 8, 2009
Diverse magazine has honored Frances Contreras as one of an "extraordinary ensemble of academicians" to be named 2009 Emerging Scholars.
Zayed University Partnership
AME Info
December 29, 2008
Zayed University launches eight new graduate programs in collaboration with international universities, including UW Special Education program.
The Latino Education Crisis
Inside Higher Education
Dec. 22, 2008
Inside Higher Education interviews the authors of The Latino Education Crisis: The Consequences of Failed Social Policies. Co-author Frances Contreras is Assistant Professor in the College of Education.
Schools: Look for ways to get better results for less money
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
By Marguerite Roza, Research Associate Professor at the College of Education
Robin Lake, Associate Director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education
November 19, 2008
How should school districts respond to cuts in state funds?
Should districts lay off the most junior teachers regardless of how they are performing? Raise class sizes, or eliminate music, athletics and art? Or maybe slash librarians, counselors or aides?
Such blunt cuts are the usual district responses to fiscal strain. Perhaps there could be other options so that student performance does not suffer.
Students are being schooled in politics
Youths get a hands-on lesson in civics in nationwide balloting
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
October 31, 2008
Campaign season is in full swing at Burien's Sylvester Middle School -- and it's intense. Each student in COE alum Ellyn Roe's social studies/language arts class was assigned to campaign on campus for a candidate for president, governor or state school superintendent.
Center on Reinventing Public Education Report:
Funding Student Learning: How to Align Educational Resources with Student Learning Goals
Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE)
October 2008
After years of hard work and spending hundreds of millions to raise the level of student performance, educators, political and civic leaders, and parents still have not produced the results they expect.
Philip Bell to give College of Education fall lecture Oct. 28
University Week
October 23, 2008
The learning of science and math is a civil rights issue, and schools should give students broad participation in those areas as early as possible, says Philip Bell, a UW associate professor of learning sciences.
Leaders seek to end racial gap in Washington schools
Tacoma News Tribune
October 20, 2008
Whether the measure is test scores, graduation or special-education rates, Washington's black students as a group fare worse than their white and Asian American counterparts. Doris McEwen, College of Education faculty member and distinguished P-12 educator, is quoted.
Professor links declining enrollment to budget woes
Arizona Republic
October 3, 2008
As an assistant professor at the University of Washington, Marguerite Roza has studied how declining student enrollment affects district budgets.
Fellowship bolsters new teachers in San Mateo County
InsideBayArea.com
July 26, 2008
UW College of Education alumna Emily Sweet (2008) is one of only 33 future teachers from across the country to receive a prestigious fellowship from Knowles Science Teaching Foundation, a national advocate for improving the quality of science and mathematics teaching.
So bright: the luminious futures Campaign UW is creating
UW Alumni Association, Campaign UW Feature
September 15, 2008
There's no brighter start in the UW firmament than [James] Banks – a College of Education faculty member since 1969, the founder of hte Center for Multicultural Educations and the influential author of more than 20 books.
Special siblings require special kinds of support
Daily Local (Philadelphia)
September 15, 2008
The Sibshops program was developed at the University of Washington's Experimental Education Unit in Seattle 25 years ago.
It's designed to give siblings of special-needs kids opportunities to support each other in a recreational setting. Described as a lively, pedal-to-the-metal celebration of the many contributions made by the brothers and sisters of special-needs kids, Sibshops are a mixture of games, activities, crafts, discussion and guest speakers.
New school year: Value Proposition
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
September 1, 2008
When it comes to school, we get what we pay for. The sad truth is we don't pay for students and teachers to be in school long enough to produce the kinds of gains we say we want. Research Associate Professor Marguerite Roza is quoted. More»
UW Expert: Seattle Shift Counters National Trend
Puget Sound Business Journal
August 15-21, 2008
Marguerite Roza is a research asociate professor at the UW, where she's a member of the Center on Reinventing Public Education. Roza's work — she calls herself a forensic accountant specializing in education — gives her an inside look at how the nation's big-city school districts — including Seattle — allocate resources to their schools. More»
Also: Bodies, Not Dollars: Seattle Schools Regain Grip on Staffing. More»
(Subscription required for access to full articles.)
NEEDED: Federal Action for Fair Funding of High-Poverty Schools
Education Week
July 25, 2008
The intense competition of the global economy demands that all of America’s young people receive the kind of education they need and deserve. Yet to make that happen, the United States must confront the fact that inequality continues to plague its public schools. Marguerite Roza, a research assistant professor with a joint appointment with the College of Education, is quoted. More»
(Subscription required for access to full article.)
EDLPS Alum Kate Quinn Receives Work-Life Balance Award from the Society of Women Engineers
University Week
July 10, 2008
Kate Quinn, project director of Balance at UW, housed within the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the 2008 Society of Women Engineers Work-Life Balance Award. This award, which is sponsored by Honeywell International Inc., "celebrates an individual who has worked to create programs that help women engineers and other employees balance the commitments of career, life and family." More»
Seattle CC: education and innovation
Seattle Times
July 8, 2008
A new partnership between Seattle Central and the University of Washington, Teachers for a New Era, provides a pathway for a new generation of multiethnic teachers who will better reflect the socioeconomic and ethnic diversity in the K-12 classrooms where they will be teaching. More»
Scientifically Valid Prevention Programs Cut Rates Of Juvenile Delinquency.
Science Daily
June 24, 2008
College of Education professor Bob Abbott's joint research with Social Development Research Group scientists on juvenile delinquency is published in Journal of Adolescent Health. The study finds that seventh-grade students in U.S. communities that have programs to decrease juvenile delinquency have a lower rate of delinquency than towns without such programs. More»
Henry Eugene Thomson, College of Education alum, 1928-2008
Seattle P-I
June 17, 2008
Henry Eugene Thomson, alumnus of the College of Education, has passed away. A teacher, coach and member of the Washington Community College Hall of Fame, Thomson will be remembered for his inspired teaching, both in the classroom and on the playing field . More»
Facing sophomore slump: Adviser has been there
University Week
June 5, 2008
Kurt Xyst, a graduate student in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Program, blends his professional work as a UW academic adviser with his academic inquiry at the College of Education. More»
UW football players reach out to community
Seattle Times
May 22, 2008
Come this fall, Washington Huskies backup left tackle Mark Armelin will be counted on to push around opposing defensive linemen who mirror his listed 
measurements of 6 feet 5, 295 pounds.
But Wednesday morning, the redshirt freshman was merely a pushover for a 6-year-old girl who maybe weighs 40 pounds tops.
Armelin was one of six players who visited the Experimental Education Unit at the UW on Wednesday as part of the football team's two-day "Blitz the Sound" community outreach event. More»
College of Education begins sweeping changes in its teacher training program
University Week
May 8, 2008
The UW College of Education is unveiling sweeping changes in teacher training, aimed at giving future teachers more extensive real-world experience — especially in low-income and disadvantaged areas — and encouraging a more holistic view of helping children learn.
The changes come from a five-year, collegewide effort to better prepare UW-trained educators to teach in diverse and high-need schools, and to focus more directly on issues of equity and academic excellence for all students. More»
UW educators evaluate standardized tests
UW Daily
May 1, 2008
For Catherine Taylor, an associate professor of educational psychology who is currently working on education proposals for the state legislature, the WASL is “perfectly acceptable.”
“It’s not perfect, but it’s better than most,” she said. “I think we have a really good test. To me, of the options we have, I wouldn’t go back.” More»
Washington Weekend reception and lecture: Ellen Brantlinger
Friday, April 25
6:30 p.m. Reception, 7p.m. Lecture
University Book Store
A special event at the UW Book Store where Ellen Brantlinger will discuss her book, Dividing Classes: How the Middle Class Negotiates & Rationalizes School Advantage. Open to the general public, the event will begin with a wine and cheese reception at 6:30 p.m.
A “take-no-prisoners ethnography” according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, Ellen Brantlinger’s Dividing Classes: How the Middle Class Negotiates and Rationalizes School Advantage combines observation and interviews in an analysis of the way that social class structure affects educational success. More»
Early Childhood and Family Studies program: Reaching students early with quality education
University Week
April 10, 2008
The new College of Education undergraduate degree path in Early Childhood and Family Studies answers a longtime need in a creative and interdisciplinary way, its creators say.
The program, various versions of which have been under consideration at the UW for several years, was approved by the Washington state Higher Education Coordinating Board last December. It began with a "soft launch" in fall, took its first few students in winter quarter and has about 30 students already participating for spring quarter. More»
Get your Gaelic on with Oran nan Car
University Week
April 10, 2008
Around a university campus, it's not unusual to have an esoteric interest, but not all such interests are entertaining to other people. Two UW staffers will be bringing their esoteric interest to the Ethnic Cultural Theater stage on April 19. The interest is Scottish Gaelic, and the two are members of a musical group that performs mostly in that language.
Kent Jewell sings tenor in the group, called Oran nan Car, and Corby Ingold sings bass and plays the bodhran (drum) and concertina. By day, Jewell is the area secretary supervisor in Educational Psychology, while Ingold is a program assistant in Anatomic Pathology, but every Friday night they join their fellow group members to sing songs from Scotland. More»
The 2008 Samuel E. Kelly Lecture
University Week
April 3, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
6 p.m. Reception, 7 p.m. Lecture
Henry Art Gallery
University of Washington Campus
Black Students, Campus Activism, and the Reform of Higher Education: History and Legacy 
is the title of this year's Samuel E. Kelly Lecture, set for 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, in the Henry Art Gallery. Sponsored by the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity, the speech is by Joy Ann Williamson , associate professor in the College of Education.
In the 1960s and 1970s, American higher educational institutions became contested terrain in a way they never had before. Williamson will examine both the history and legacy of the battle between higher educational institutions and state governments, between administrators and students, and between students and other students over first and fourteenth amendment rights, and academic freedom. More»
Multicultural Education expert James Banks to give major Address on educating diverse populations in global world
UVA Today
April 3, 2008
James Banks, the Kerry and Linda Killinger Professor of Diversity Studies and director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington,was the third featured speaker in the annual Walter Ridley Distinguished Lecture Series at the University of Virginia.
California district makes instructional leadership a priority
Education Week
March 12, 2008
Education Week featured an article about the Center for Educational Leadership’s leadership coaching with principals and central office staff in Norwalk-La Mirada School District. The article, “California District Makes Instructional Leadership a Priority,” focuses on CEL’s district partnership theory that teachers’ classroom instruction improves with the support of principals who are effective instructional leaders.
Full article available on CEL’s website, www.k-12leadership.org.
Colleges combine for new minor in Education, Learning and Society
UW News and Information
February 21, 2008
The creation of an education minor is no minor event.
For the first time, UW undergraduates will be able to choose a set of
courses that will lead to a concentration in education -- specifically,
in education, learning and society -- in a program developed by the
College of Education and the College of Arts and Sciences. Among the
ideas that students can explore in classes are the scientific view of
learning, using moral and ethical standards to understand equity,
issues surrounding diversity, and the concept of citizenship. More»
John Bransford leads Young Audience's National Literacy Research Project
KLTV Jacksonville
February 11, 2008
We blended arts and literacy, sparkle and learning science, action and academics to capture the best of both worlds," observed Dr. John Bransford, leader of the design team at the University of Washington. "Students learn in concert with one another, practice literacy skills with both texts and arts activities through cycles of creation, reflection and revision, and they put it all together in a presentation of the art and literacy they have learned." More »
Picking the perfect kindergarten drives many parents up the wall
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
February 10, 2008
The February gloom has descended on Seattle, and that means parents have another part-time job and full-time headache, complete with spreadsheets and overtime. They must choose a kindergarten by the end of the month...
"I would tell parents to relax, and the other thing is to think about their kids," said Ilene Schwartz, an education professor at the University of Washington. "Do the teachers look happy?" More »
Teachers remember life lessons
Northwest Asian Weekly
January 12, 2008
Last Nov. 16, six retired women and a few of their husbands met for lunch at the University of Washington Club on the UW campus in Seattle. All of the women were Japanese American teachers who had spent much of their careers in the Seattle Public School system. For them, the lunch was, in a way, a reunion.
They had been brought together by Dr. Nathalie Gehrke, a professor of education at UW, and Julie Kang, her graduate assistant. In 2005, Gehrke had received a small grant from the University of Washington’s Institute for Ethnic Studies. She and Kang wanted to take oral histories of K-12 teachers of Asian descent. These women had been their subjects. More »
CIRGE Study: Ph.Ds need more skills
KPLU Public Radio
January 2, 2008
Graduate programs take years to teach students everything they need to know about their discipline. But a new study from the University of Washington says graduate programs need to teach students even more. Not just how to be scholars but how to live in the real world. More »
UW College of Education selected for Leonore Annenberg/Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
New York Times
December 20, 2007
Taking the prestigious Rhodes Scholarships as a model, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation in Princeton is creating a fellowship program that it hopes will lure top students into teaching and transform teacher education in the United States... The Woodrow Wilson program will offer about 33 national Leonore Annenberg Teaching Fellowships a year, with $30,000 stipends, for students to attend graduate education programs at Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Virginia and the University of Washington. Applications will be available next year for enrollment in fall 2009. More»
Dean Wasley at Ellbogen Teaching and Learning Symposium
Laramie Boomerang
Dean Patricia Wasley was a guest speaker at the first Ellbogen Teaching and Learning Symposium at the University of Wyoming.
Philip Bell gives Keynote for School’s Out Washington’s SOAR with Science Conference
October 4, 2007
Philip Bell gave the keynote address for the SOAR with Science Back to School Mini Conference, sponsored by School’s Out Washington, on October 4, 2007. SOAR with Science sees after-school science programs as a way to equalize access to science among underrepresented groups of students. Bell discussed the consensus report “Learning in and out of School in Diverse Environments: Life-Long, Life-Wide, Life-Deep” that was a product of the diversity panel convened by LIFE and the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington. He also discussed findings from his group’s ethnographic study documenting children’s in and out of school learning about science and technology. More »
LIFE Center Announcement: study on software usage and needs for homeschoolers
Researchers at the University of Washington have begun a study of how software, including websites, are currently being used to help teach homeschoolers and how software is perhaps not addressing the needs of homeschool students. This is currently being done with a web-based survey for USA home educators. More »
Ilene Schwartz discusses her recent research on autism
As part of an ongoing series, the College of Education is profiling its faculty members, asking each of them the same set of questions. This interview features Ilene Schwartz. Her research interests are in the area of early childhood special education. Specifically, she is interested in understanding what instructional strategies and environmental arrangements are most effective in facilitating the learning of young children with autism and related disabilities. More »
James Banks: "Diversity and Citizenship Education in Global Times"
October 2, 2007
Dr. James Banks recently delivered the annual Tisch Lecture at Columbia University's Teachers College.
College Alumni to tour Jordan
August 1, 2007
Sixth-grade social studies teacher Tina Anima has always urged her students to embrace new experiences.
This summer, she's practicing what she preaches.
The McClure Middle School teacher and four other Washington educators will set off Friday for a nearly monthlong, all-expenses-paid trip to Jordan.
There, they'll meet up with five top Jordanian teachers for a whirlwind of sightseeing, classroom tours and visits with officials -- perhaps even a meeting with Queen Rania.
Cerebral palsy student to graduate with UW doctorate
King 5.com
February 9, 2007
This year the University of Washington will confer degrees on more than 10,000 students. One of those students receiving an advanced degree from the psychology department is Kristin Rytter, a remarkable woman with a remarkable achievement. Rytter’s professors call her brilliant and funny. The world calls her disabled - severely disabled - by cerebral palsy. And after nearly two decades of work at the UW, she’s happy if you called her "doctor." More»
Education Professor Frances Contreras among NW Asian Weekly’s rising stars
University Week
January 18, 2007
Frances Contreras, UW assistant professor of Education Leadership and Policy Studies, will be among those honored by the newspaper Northwest Asian Weekly in its Women of Color Empowered luncheon series. Contreras was chosen because of the effect she has had in increasing the visibility of the Latino community on the UW campus and for helping to recruit Latinas and female Hispanic students. More»
A Cultural Approach to Education: Dana Arviso
Campaign UW Newsletter
Fall 2006
Dana Arviso faced a daunting task. Just out of college, she was asked to design a new curriculum for the young children she was teaching on the Bishop Paiute reservation in California. Having grown up on reservations in California and Arizona, Arviso was familiar with the challenges facing Native American students when it came to literacy. She knew that the culture's rich tradition of oral history did not always translate to strong literacy skills in a traditional school environment. More»
55-mile swim around Lake Washington takes 37 hours
Seattle Times
August 28, 2006
For most people, a weekend swim means spending an hour or two splashing about in the lake. For Tyler Patterson, it meant swimming for 37 hours, at times chasing a glow stick through milfoil in the dead of night. The swim was a fundraiser for the Experimental Educational Unit, a school at the University of Washington for young children with disabilities. More»
Educational treatments for autism
KUOW Broadcast
August 8, 2006
Professor Ilene Schwartz was a featured guest on KUOW’s Weekday program. Schwartz joined host Steve Scher in a conversation about autism. More»
Banks book wins stellar reviews
University Week
July 20, 2006
Education Professor James Banks spent the past school year as a Spencer Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, where he also finished a new book that was published to excellent reviews.
To what are we pledging our allegiance?
Seattle PI
Op-ed by Walter Parker
July 4, 2006
On each Fourth of July at the Seattle Center Flag Pavilion, hundreds of immigrants become United States citizens. It happens with an oath and a pledge. The Oath of Allegiance is recited first. This is when the citizens-to-be declare that they renounce allegiance to the country from which they came. Then comes the Pledge of Allegiance, in which they promise loyalty to ... . To what?
Public schools are hotbeds of democracy
Seattle PI
Op-ed by Walter Parker
March 9, 2006
Democracies don’t materialize out of thin air. They are created — and maintained and deepened — by citizens. If citizens are to safeguard civil liberties, elect wise officials, become wise officials themselves, make sense of the news and negotiate public policy with other citizens in an ever more diverse society, "their minds," as Thomas Jefferson said, "need to be improved to a certain degree."
Class gives credit for solving real-world problems
UWeek
March 2, 2006
Who is responsible for addressing the epic problems of our age? What is society to do about homelessness, poverty, disease, discrimination, addiction, suicide, injustice and other widespread afflictions? . . . Lots of questions, to be sure, but these are the substantial matters being taken up by Eugene Edgar, a professor of special education, and his Winter Quarter honors seminar, "Public Problems: Who is Responsible and How Should They Be Solved?"
Video Traces: A flexible new medium for instruction
UWeek
January 12, 2006
For educators — and coaches, directors and others without network feeds and instant replays at their fingertips — wouldn’t it be great if there was a program to enable people to capture still or moving images, annotate them by pointing with text or a spoken-word audio commentary and share them?
Reed Stevens, an associate professor of Educational Psychology and part of the leadership of the College of Education’s LIFE Center on the Science of Learning, has created just such a tool. It’s called Video Traces, and it’s a bit like a sports-style Telestrator on steroids, created to ramp up communication and information sharing without increasing technological difficulty or complexity.
Teaching alone in a flat world
Seattle PI
Richard W. Riley and Patricia A. Wasley, Guest Columnists
December 15, 2005
As parents all over Washington visit their children’s schools to attend holiday concerts and parties, we should consider what else is going on in our schools. Our biggest concern is that too many good teachers who are making such an important difference in the lives of children won’t be back next year.
A legacy uncovered: Education prof finds ‘treasure trove’ of teachers’ memories
University Week
December 1, 2005
Sometimes a research project evolves to become more than the sum of its parts. Even a small, fairly dry inquiry can bloom with context and meaning and begin unlocking larger truths -- about who we are, or have been, or are becoming. Occasionally.
That’s what appears to be happening with Education Professor Nathalie Gehrke’s research studying cultural factors that can affect k-12 teachers of Japanese heritage. It might mean more work for Gehrke and others in time, but the 27-year teaching and research veteran couldn’t be happier, or more fascinated.
Doctoral programs to get global look
UWeek
November 10, 2005
The UW has convened a group of international innovators in doctoral education to explore the forces that are driving change around the globe and the forms that innovation is taking.
Experts from 14 countries participated in the first conference, held this September. They plan to create a worldwide network which will explore how local and global forces are causing changes in how doctoral students are educated, and to develop policy recommendations with broad application.
The conference was hosted by the UW’s Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education (CIRGE), which is directed by Maresi Nerad, associate graduate dean, whose interest in this subject goes back to her own postsecondary educational experience, which began in Germany and was completed at UC Berkeley.
Dangerous Behavior
Weekday segment, KUOW
November 7, 2005
Listen to an archived interview on KUOW featuring College of Education Professor James Mazza as part of a guest panel on dangerous behavior.
Dangerous behavior among pre-teens caught the attention of the media when a few middle school students died playing the "choking game." Students were using anything from a jump rope to a karate belt to choke themselves with the intent of getting high. Young adolescences are also experimenting with other highs by using inhalants, drugs, and alcohol. Other dangerous behaviors include sex at a young age and reenactments of treacherous stunts seen on television. What causes this behavior to happen; stress, depression, lack of responsibility, or lack of parent involvement? What can we do as parents and mentors to help these children?
COE Featured in UW Campaign
October, 2005
A television spot featuring the College of Education is airing on KING 5, KONG 6/16 and the Northwest Cable News network this fall. Radio ads about the program will begin airing on KOMO 1000, a web ad will appear on the UW website later in October, and print ads are scheduled to appear in the Seattle Times on 11/2 and 11/9, as well as the Husky Football program. The College was one of only three schools on campus selected to be featured in this phase of the UW’s Creating Futures promotional campaign.
Read article on UW Creating Futures website, Technology Infusion: UW College of Education Increases Outreach and Updates Teacher Preparation
WASL: Community’s help crucial, scholars say
Seattle PI
September 1, 2005
There is no silver bullet, it’s not rocket science, but it does take a village to get a classroom of students all the way through their years of study to graduation. "We talk about the achievement gap," said Bill McDiarmid, Boeing professor of teacher-education at the University of Washington. "We ought to be talking about the resource gap."
No good way to interpret laying off translators
Seattle PI
August 31, 2005
A friendly teacher and maybe a principal or community volunteer have been showing up at families’ front doors actually caring that students connect on that first day of classes. And parents will feel comfortable as well.
Such home visits can be lifelines to immigrant families. To them ominous notices arriving in the mail, rumors about threatened school closures, and the arcane language of enrollment forms can loom like a mystifying muddle.
That’s why Margery Ginsberg, a faculty member in the University of Washington College of Education, was so keen on the visits made this summer by her "advocacy teams" of 24 doctoral students aspiring to be school superintendents.
Versatile, fun laptop is the Apple of my eye
Seattle PI
August 20, 2005
. . . An iBook is also the right tool for creating photo slide shows on the fly — sort of like this project I heard about: The University of Washington College of Education held a two-day workshop for educators to share teaching and leadership strategies. Someone took photographs during the sessions that captured strategies in action, and then used iPhoto and iMovie to put together a slide show that was presented at the farewell banquet.
Autistic teens get help honing their social skills
Seattle Times
August 15, 2005
Crouched on the floor of a chaotic classroom, James Farmer encourages a 5-year-old boy with autism to fit pegs onto a puzzle board. The boy cannot speak and has difficulty focusing on the task at hand. "Keep going, that’s good," Farmer says as the boy begins to piece the puzzle together by himself.
Working with autistic kids is difficult. The neurological disorder disrupts connections in the brain that allow people to interact and communicate.
But Farmer, 15, has an unusual qualification for his summer job as an assistant teacher for developmentally disabled children at the University of Washington. He has autism, too, and knows how frustrating it can be, especially in school.
Microsoft grant to UW, others, will help K12 teachers
University Week
July 21, 2005
Expanding connections and resources for new K12 teachers is at the heart of a two-year, $500,000 grant from Microsoft that the UW will share with three other universities, partnering with public school districts.
The UW will receive about $100,000 over the two-year period through Microsoft’s award to the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, the commission announced recently. The money will go to scale up its Teachers Learning in Networked Communities project, which provides online communities that support and offer professional development for teachers from their preparation programs through the certification process.
The project will provide means for facilitated online discussions, individual and group mentoring and a searchable database of education resources. The project has the goals of improving teacher retention and growing greater partnerships within and across schools and communities. The grant adds the UW and three other institutions partnering with school districts to four such pre-existing partnerships. The grants are part of Microsoft’s US Partners in Learning initiative. For more information about the initiative, visit online at www.microsoft.com/education. For more information about the nonprofit National Commission on Teaching and America’s Learning, visit www.nctaf.org.
Teacher turnover an issue
Seattle Times
March 30, 2005
Schools with high poverty levels and low standardized-test scores lost more teachers, on average, than other schools in the Edmonds School District, according to a statewide study on teacher retention. Edmonds was among 20 school districts in Washington whose personnel records were examined for the study, sponsored by the nonprofit Center for Strengthening the Teaching Profession and conducted by University of Washington researchers.
The findings suggest that what was once a big-city-school problem — high teacher turnover — is also an issue in districts such as Edmonds, which has seen an increase in the number of poor and non-English-speaking students over the past decade.
Teacher training paid off, UW research says
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
March 8, 2005
For Claudia Allan, the special training she received in her first year as a teacher was an "incredible experience." For the more experienced Victoria Romero, the training was "one of those really defining moments" of her teaching career.
But the program that Allan and Romero participated in nearly 20 years ago wasn’t really about them: It was designed to measure the worth of certain elementary-school teaching strategies in steering students away from the pitfalls of adolescence and toward success in school and on the job. According to a report published this year by University of Washington researchers, it worked.
Banks bridges education, equality
Seattle Times
March 3, 2005
Schools cannot close the achievement gap between white and minority students without addressing prejudice and cultural differences as part of reform efforts, the head of the University of Washington’s Center for Multicultural Education says. "Putting people in small schools is not sufficient. You have to get in there and transform relationships," said James Banks, who, over the past 40 years, has written or edited 20 books and more than 100 articles on race and education.
Inside the autism treatment maze
MSNBC
February 23, 2005
As part of a week at NBC focusing on autism, there was an article featuring the Experimental Education Unit, with COE Professor Ilene Schwartz doing a voiceover for an audio slide show segment.
Read the complete article» (To see the audio slide show segment featuring the EEU, click on "audio slide show", then click on "ABA therapy.")
Why Do Teachers Quit?
Weekday segment, KUOW
December 20, 2004
Listen to an archived interview on KUOW, entitled "Why do Teachers Quit?" Guests included Bill McDiarmid from Teachers for a New Era; Sandra Coan, a former teacher who taught Kindergarten for two years and team-taught 5th grade for a year at Van Asselt Elementary; and Elizabeth Sinclair, a 4th and 5th grade teacher at AE2 for 14 years.
Prep School
Columns
December, 2004
Sure, the dropout rate among high school students is troubling. But an equally frightening statistic is the number of young teachers who leave the profession every year. The national dropout rate among teachers is nearly 50 percent over five years. If that pattern continues, half of the teachers who entered the profession this September will leave before they finish their fifth year in the classroom.
But at the University of Washington, a new partnership between the College of Education and the College of Arts and Sciences is working to reverse this trend. Armed with a $5 million grant from the Carnegie Foundation, the two colleges have opened the Washington Center for Teaching and Learning.
10 voices from afar singing a new song
Seattle Times
Sunday, September 12, 2004
Molo Care, a program started by Ed Taylor from the University of Washington College of Education, brought South Africa to Seattle in the form of this award-winning high-school choir, to let people see — and hear — firsthand what their support can do. School costs dollars their families seldom have. Their communities are shantytowns. Their options are few. It seems all they can do is sing and dream — and two days in the studio last week with Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder allowed them both.
Taught to be principals: new principals join students returning to school
Seattle Times
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
Today, as 47,000 Seattle Public Schools students begin the 2004-05 school year, Veronica Gallardo and 28 other newly appointed principals will be starting afresh as well. Many have been groomed from within, either as assistant principals or like Gallardo as principal interns through the University of Washington’s Danforth Educational Leadership Program.
