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Professor Django Paris, Seattle educator Darozyl Touch (MIT '19) and doctoral student Bontu Aman Mohammed (MEd '18) are featured in an article exploring culturally sustaining pedagogy.

The nation's schoolchildren have made little or no progress in reading proficiency in recent years, according to results released Wednesday from the largest nationwide reading test. Sheila Valencia weighs in.

Two guides, curated by UW ���ߺ��� faculty, with educational resources for families impacted by school and child care program closures are included in a roundup of resources amidst the coronavirus pandemic.

In partnership with the UW Colleges of Engineering and Education and the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), the state-funded Partnership for Science & Engineering Practices project is aiming to help Seattle Public Schools (SPS) and the Renton School District (RSD) adapt their existing science curriculum to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) for grades 3-8. 

Professor Janine Jones led a research partnership studying the impact of an app on the learning experiences and moods of chronically stressed children in their learning environment.

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 ���ߺ��� 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 ���ߺ���, which is now the Banks Center for Educational Justice. Read the