Former College of Ed PhD student, Chris Robert, is named Hero in the Classroom and will be honored at a Seahawks game.
Report from National Network for Educational Renewal
Saturday, October 17, 2009
The conference was held October 14-17, 2009 in Bellevue, WA. Over 400 people attended, including many school district superintendents and other college of education deans and faculty. Congratulations to Dean Wasley, Eugene Edgar (conference co-chair) as well as other COE staff, faculty and students who presented and volunteered there to help make this conference a success. See highlights including video and photos captured at this year's NNER Conference.
Report from the Center on Reinventing Public Education
Thursday, October 1, 2009
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).
Roza Testimony for House Committee on Education and Labor
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Marguerite Roza testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor at the hearing entitled Teacher Equity: Effective Teachers for All Children.
Marguerite Roza testifies before Committee on Education
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Marguerite Roza testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor at the hearing entitled Teacher Equity: Effective Teachers for All Children.
Will lowering GPA requirements help students or society?
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
College of Ed faculty member Tom Halverson weighs in on current debate over lowering GPA requirements for graduating seniors. The district says this is part of a larger plan they are presenting to the school board. Learn more about this controversial topic.
College of Ed alum, Craig Romano, publishes book
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Career paths ordinarily do not follow footpaths. Author Craig Romano, though, loves being an exception, and a fairly unlikely one to boot ?~@~T a Connecticut-born writer treading in the footsteps of revered Northwest guidebook icons Harvey Manning and Ira Spring.
UW Social Development Research Group's Work on Drug Abuse Prevention
Monday, September 7, 2009
Faculty member Bob Abbott's research with the UW Social Development Research Group featured on ABC.
Kirkland author Richelle Mead gets a taste of success with Vampire Academy novels
Monday, August 31, 2009
Alum Richelle Mead publishes the fourth installment in her Vampire Academy teen/young adult series.
Can schools can do better with less money?
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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.