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Professor Janine Jones discusses the correlation between a positive school climate and student academic outcomes.

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.

Seattle Times columnist Lynne Varner writes about Seattle Public Schools Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson's new approach of investing more money in fewer schools. Marguerite Roza, research associate professor of education, is quoted.

In an op-ed, Professor Soojin Oh Park discusses how the novel coronavirus pandemic threatens to exacerbate inequalities and systemic oppression that endanger the well-being of underserved children and argues for robust investments in high-quality, affordable child care.

It’s becoming more common to have robots substitute in for humans to complete dirty or sometimes dangerous work. But researchers are finding that, in some cases, people have started to treat the robots like pets, friends, or even as extensions of themselves. This raises the question that if soldiers attach human- or animal-like characteristics to a field robot, will it affect how they use the robot? What if they “care” too much about the robot to send it into a dangerous situation? That’s what Julie Carpenter, who just received her UW doctorate in education, wanted to know.

Yanko Michea, director of information and learning technologies, discusses how UW College of Education adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure the continuation of productive teaching and learning (story starts on page 4).

It’s an odd thought. Why would anyone make their work more difficult than it already is? Yet we know that difficulty can pay unexpected dividends. The work of Professor Virginia Berninger is cited.

Professor Chun Wang will partner in research exploring approaches to improve the identification of people at highest risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.