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Alum Richelle Mead publishes the fourth installment in her Vampire Academy teen/young adult series.

Professor David Knight, whose research has explored the impact of the Great Recession on school funding, comments on the importance of maintaining equity as districts and states contend with a potential loss of revenue.

Advanced Placement, or A.P., is quickly becoming the accepted standard for college-level coursework in U.S. high schools. The Seattle Time’s Education Lab’s most recent story examines how a new form of A.P. instruction used at Sammamish High School in Bellevue and Garfield High School in Seattle is attempting to address these concerns. College of Education researchers are featured in this multimedia presentation.

Professor Manka Varghese, recognized this year as one of the University of Washington's Distinguished Teaching Award recipients, is included in a photo essay featuring the honorees.

Two recent documentaries on education in the U.S. — Two Million Minutes and Race to Nowhere — will be explored during a UW College of Education-sponsored film screening and panel discussion on Nov. 17.

Siamek Vossoughi’s new short story collection titled “A Sense of the Whole, Short Story Collection” received a book review. Vossoughi worked last year as an artist-in-residence in the UW College of Education. He currently works as an instructor and grader for the Brotherhood-Initiative.

Faculty members Gail Joseph and Stephen Fink discuss efforts to improve teaching quality, including UW's work building evaluation systems for schools.

Jennifer Lee Hoffman, associate professor of educational foundations, leadership and policy, headlined an episode of the Going For Two podcast. Hoffman spoke with host Bryan Fischer about the ramifications and nuances of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in NCAA v. Alston, which concerns whether the NCAA's restrictions on education-related grant-in-aid compensation are illegal under the Sherman Antitrust Act. The Court's 9-0 decision recognizes that the NCAA's "amatuerism" rules cannot work to benefit everyone except the student-athletes who produce a product and will substantially impact the NCAA's operations going forward, particularly when it comes to compensating college athletes.

The Knowledge In Action project, a partnership between the University of Washington College of Education and George Lucas Educational Foundation to design project-based learning courses for high school advanced placement courses, is noted.

Associate teaching professor and Elementary Teacher Education Program director Teddi Beam-Conroy is featured in an EducationWeek article titled “How Laws on Race, Sexuality Could Clash with Culturally Responive Teaching.” The article discusses the limitations that are being put on teachers nationwide and how these recent restrictions on teaching about issues of race and sexuality can potentially impact the work of culturally responsive educators.