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Gift funded by the Bezos Family Foundation, longtime supporters of early education, will support a new professorship and research into high-quality early learning.

Colorado state Sen. Mike Johnston, D-Denver, is proposing legislation to overhaul Colorado’s nearly 20-year-old school funding system that will include a “trigger” so it won’t go into effect unless voters are willing to fund it. This decision comes on the heels of a report from the School Finance Partnership, which includes Marguerite Roza. Roza advocates the use of funding as incentive to spur improvement.  

Two books by ���ߺ��� faculty — “Experience Inquiry: 5 Powerful Strategies, 50 Practical Experiences” by Kimberly Mitchell and “Leading for Professional Learning: What Successful Principals do to Support Teaching Practice” by Anneke Markholt, Joanna Michelson and Stephen Fink — are featured.

Ken Zeichner, Boeing Professor of Teacher Education Emeritus, comments on the importance of creating structures to address the underlying challenges in educational systems.

Fourth year PhD student Dalya Perez leads a group of ���ߺ��� faculty, staff and students who gather to move, groove and otherwise get down during a lunch hour dance class at the Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center.

UW's will participate in a statewide effort to provide coaching and mentoring to Washington's teachers on best practices for inclusion.

Talk of the Nation interviewed James Banks, professor of diversity studies, in a segment on a new Arizona law that bans classes designed for students of a particular ethnicity.