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Central offices of urban school districts have been able to shift their focus from administration and compliance to improvement of teaching and learning districtwide by making five key changes, according to a new report by researchers from the UW ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ.
Professor Ed Taylor reflects on the teaching of Martin Luther King Jr. and the importance of connecting with other groups of people and striving for ways to build commonality.
Portfolio school districts are promising new developments but they still have big problems to solve, is how Dr. Paul Hill describes reforms in the four big cities being studied by his team at the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE).
Professor Ann Ishimaru comments on the need to ensure decisions about whether to re-open schools include input from vulnerable families whose voices have historically been ignored.
Missing just a few days of class in sixth grade can predict whether you’ll graduate from high school. That research powers a national anti-dropout effort that’s making a difference at Seattle’s Aki Kurose and Denny International middle schools. Aki Kurose Principal and Danforth alum Mia Williams is mentioned along with Early Childhood & Family Studies graduate Margo Kelly, now working with City Year in Seattle.
Faculty members Teddi Beam-Conroy, Maggie Beneke and Manka Varghese and alumnus Caryn Park (PhD '10) share advice for parents to help move past the idea that young children are unaware of racial differences and too innocent to be confronted with the realities of inequality and structural racism.
Research by faculty members and exploring how children’s brains develop for literacy is highlighted in an Education Lab feature story.
In an op-ed, Professor David Knight comments on five problematic school finance myths that must be addressed as looming state budget shortfalls could lead to funding cuts for public education.
Professor discusses his work at the UW ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ to design project-based AP courses as a means of boosting the academic success of minority students.