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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.

Professor Meredith Honig has joined the new NYC Leadership Academy Expert Advisory Council and will lend her expertise to the NYC Leadership Academy’s efforts to continuously learn from and improve its work developing school and school system leaders to identify and dismantle inequities.   

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 College of Education doctoral candidate Elba Moise comments on the importance of students having space to show their real selves in during online classes.

Noah Zeichner was given the World Educator award by the World Affairs Council. Zeichner teaches a Global Leadership class in which students study contemporary global problems, then develop lessons for fourth-graders at a nearby elementary school.  He also co-founded a local ideas festival called World Water Week, and is a Teachers for Global Classrooms Fellow in a program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, and a lead teacher for the Global Visionaries program.

The Haring Center for Inclusive Education's EEU lab school has received a grant from the Seattle Foundation to support its provision of emergency childcare to frontline medical staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Chris Pearson, a Leadership for Learning student, and Keisha Scarlett, a Danforth alumnus, are featured as the state of Washington's 2014 Elementary School Principal of the Year and Middle-level Principal of the Year respectively.

Assistant Professor, David Knight, provides an opinion editorial to The Hill about making education funding a priority.