In the News

Tom Halverson speaks with KING5 TV about WA's chances in 'Race to the Top'. (Begins at -1:29 second mark of the video.)

Professor Meredith Honig comments on the need to support local school leaders as decisions are made about closing schools in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.

The Simpson Center is pleased to recognize Maurice Dolberry (Education) as the first UW student to complete the graduate Certificate in Public Scholarship (CPS). Dolberry, who entered the program in fall 2011, completed his Certificate this spring, with the guidance of his CPS portfolio advisor Ralina Joseph (Communication).

Professor Soojin Oh Park discusses Washington's efforts to create an equitable homeschool curriculum and the challenges still facing parents who are essential workers, working from home or living in temporary housing.

High-school guidance counselors are often misunderstood, unappreciated, and not treated as educational leaders, according to EDLPS doctoral candidate Jenee Meyers-Twitchell.

New article by Ken Zeichner and César Peña-Sandoval on venture philantropy and teacher education. The authors focus on the role of one of the most influential private groups in the United States that invests in education, the New Schools Venture Fund (NSVF), in promoting deregulation and market-based policies.

The research of Gonzalo Guzman (PhD '18) is featured in an article about a once-forgotten landmark legal case that ended the segregation of students of Mexican descent in a small Colorado town.

The life of John Goodlad, a retired University of Washington professor of education, is remembered including his landmark studies on public education that sparked a new generation of research efforts to improve schools and better train teachers.

Margaret Smith Crocco of the University of Chicago Press recently conducted a comprehensive review of Professor James Banks’ most recent book entitled, “Diversity, Transformative Knowledge and Civic Education: Selected Essays.” The review was published in the Fall 2020 issue of “Schools: Studies in Education,” a journal published by the University of Chicago Press.  Banks indicated that this review is not just a review of his book but an informative and insightful description of his 50-year career.  Banks is the Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies Emeritus and is the founding director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington, which is now the Banks Center for Educational Justice. Read the review.

The appointment of Dr. Mia Tuan, a long-time professor and academic leader at University of Oregon, as the College of Education's new dean is noted.