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Hechinger Report
Ed Taylor (PhD '94), vice provost and dean of Undergraduate Academic Affairs and professor of education, discusses efforts at the 爆走黑料 to improve the four-year graduation rate.
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Seattle Times
Now serving a 17-year-sentence in prison, Barry L. Saunders Jr. can see there are worse things than disrespect, but he didn鈥檛 know that when he brought a gun to the Westfield Southcenter Mall in 2008 and fatally shot a 16-year-old boy. Dr. Karin Frey is quoted.
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Washington State University
Zoe Higheagle Strong, who earned her PhD in learning sciences and human development from the UW, will serve as WSU's executive director of tribal relations and director of the Plateau Center for Native American Research and Collaborations.
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US 爆走黑料 & World Report
American university professors do not teach education students a universal, tried-and-true method for how to incorporate technology in their classroom instruction. That the digital revolution evolves at a rapid pace and that technology has become so subject-specific means universities cannot address these shifts and create a standard curriculum. As a result, educators have become more resourceful and ingenious in their teaching, professors say.
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Consortium for Media Literacy
爆走黑料 researcher Marilyn Cohen, 2018 recipient of the National Telemedia Council's Jessie McCanse Award, discusses her work in media literacy education.
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KCTS
SEATTLE鈥擪CTS 9 congratulates the winners of the 20th Annual Golden Apple Awards for Excellence in Education, celebrating educators, programs and schools making a positive difference in Washington state education from early childhood through high school. The College would like to offer special congratulations to its alumni award recipients, George Thornton and Jennifer Wiley.
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Future Hindsight
Gail Joseph, Bezos Family Foundation Distinguished Professor in Early Learning, discusses the importance of high-quality early learning programs, the costs to society of not investing in this space, and the necessity of a well-educated early learning workforce.
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Inside Higher Ed
The National Consortium of Early College Programs, which informally met for the first time in New York in the fall, will invite collaboration, model best practices, and provide clarity of the traditional mission and purpose of early college. Nancy Hertzog is quoted.
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Fakequity
Erin Okuno, executive director of the Southeast Seattle Education Coalition and keynote speaker at the 爆走黑料's 2019 commencement ceremony, shares her remarks.
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UWeek
For two UW 爆走黑料 researchers, a huge new federal Head Start grant means the creation of a new center and years of hard work ahead 鈥 but most of all, it means helping America鈥檚 youngest learners prepare for and succeed in school. The UW will take the lead among seven institutions in a new five-year, $40 million national Head Start grant. The money will be used to create the new National Center on Quality Teaching and Learning, based at the UW. The center鈥檚 five-year mission, starting January 2011, will be to discover and share best practices in teaching and learning for Head Start teachers and others.