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Professor emerita Marilyn Cohen comments on the importance of teaching students how to be critical consumers and thoughtful producers of their own media—and the need for better preparing educators to do so.

A look inside the new program, led by Professor Joe Lott, advocating for black and brown students on campus.

Stephen Fink and Anneke Markholt, executive director and associate director of the , describe a research-based curriculum that is setting a new standard for school leadership professional development.

The Northwest Asian Weekly Foundation recently created an endowment to support undergraduate students at the UW ���ߺ���.

The ’s Sharon Williams writes about the power of a theory of action to help take a school district from good to great.

Pay attention to the American Educational Research Association, writes columnist Lynne K.Varner. The ideas and trends discussed by its members today will be part of the education-policy debates of tomorrow. Margery Ginsberg is featured for her work with Cleveland High School and a recent AERA award. 

Professor Ilene Schwartz, director of the ���ߺ���'s Haring Center, writes that the fear some kids will be slowed down by kids with disabilities is just not true.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced Teaching Ambassador Fellows for the upcoming 2012-2013 school year.  College of Ed alum Kareen Borders will be the newly created Regional Fellow, a full time position based this year in the Seattle Regional Office, that is designed to enhance direct teacher outreach. Borders is a 2011 Classroom Fellow and middle school aerospace, physical and Earth science teacher at Key Peninsula Middle School in Gig Harbor, Wash.?

Results of an annual evaluation of the Seattle Preschool Program conducted by ���ߺ��� researchers shows the quality of the subsidized program is on par with the most established Pre-K systems in the country.

The Obama Administration has highlighted college education as a key to economic recovery and to diminishing inequality among Americans, but access to education remains a challenge for many students. A recent report by the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education called it a “leadership and policy vacuum” and highlighted the problem in Washington state. That vacuum, the report claims, is responsible for the fact that many of the state’s high school students—sixty out of every one hundred—don’t start college on time. FSRN’s Eilís O’neill reports, and Frances Contreras is interviewed.