Jennie Warmouth (PhD ‘17) and her students from Lynnwood Elementary made a donation to support PAWS of Lynnwood on Giving Tuesday. For more than a decade, Warmouth's students have written bios for furry friends looking for adoption.
Second-graders surprise PAWS with donation on Giving Tuesday
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Joy Williamson-Lott honored for book on civil rights, higher education in South
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Professor Joy Williamson-Lott recently received the annual Frederic W. Ness Book Award for outstanding contributions to the understanding and improvement of liberal education from the Association of American Colleges and Universities. Williamson-Lott was honored for her book “Jim Crow Campus: Higher Education and the Struggle for a New Southern Social Order.”
Grant awarded to develop literacy intervention for students with intellectual disabilities
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Professors Roxanne Hudson, Carly Roberts and Elizabeth Sanders have been awarded a $1.4 million grant from the National Center for Special Education Research for a study to identify “malleable” reading factors — such as phonological awareness and letter sounds — among elementary students with intellectual disabilities, with the long-term aim of developing effective literacy interventions.
UW professor has most read paper on human rights education
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Professor Emeritus Walter Parker’s article "Human rights education's curriculum problem" is the most-read article of 2019 in the journal Human Rights Education Review.
UW dean Mia Tuan educates future leaders on diversity and inclusion
Monday, December 2, 2019
Dean Mia Tuan, recently named to the 2019 Women of Influence list of the Puget Sound Business Journal, discusses her work to advance equity and access in education and more (subscription required).
I climb up the ladder
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
The journey of Auston Jimmicum, a member of the first cohort of the Brotherhood Initiative — a program created to help men of color succeed at the UW, is featured.
UW drives $15.7 billion of state’s economy
Monday, November 25, 2019
The work of the College of Education's Cultivate Learning to support Washington's early learning and care providers is cited in the UW's recently released Economic Impact Report (page 9).
INTERVIEW: The College Or Bust Message
Monday, November 25, 2019
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.
We must rethink what a ‘student athlete’ is and teach entrepreneurial skills
Sunday, November 24, 2019
In an op-ed, Professor Jennifer Hoffman argues for reshaping what the college curriculum should look like for athletes who want to be compensated for their name, image and likeness.
The college-or-bust message leaves a majority of our students behind
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Tom Halverson, director of the UW Master's in Education Policy program, writes about why high schools need to provide students with a variety of unrestricted, intertwined pathways to a multitude of postsecondary and/or career options.