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Seattle Times
Alum Max Hunter writes about the complexities of solving the challenges of racial disparities in education and society.
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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
James Banks, founder of the Center for Multicultural Education at UW ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ, discusses his work exploring race and identity.
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KING5
Bonnie Campbell Hill, alumnus of the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ, passed away recently. As part of her legacy, she raised $500,000 for literacy projects in the third world in just six months.
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Houston Chronicle
Professor Katie Headrick Taylor writes about the importance of data literacy and expanding definitions of data to include sources beyond mandated educational assessments.
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Edmonds Community College
The Edmonds Community College Board of Trustees has named Jean Hernandez president of Edmonds Community College. A ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ alum, Hernandez will begin work January 1, 2011.
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Honolulu Civil Beat
Professor Janine Jones discusses the correlation between a positive school climate and student academic outcomes.
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TechFlash
SynapticMash, an educational software company, just sold for $10 million. Ramona Pierson, graduate of the Danforth Program, founded SynapticMash and served as CEO of the three-year-old startup. Promethean World Plc. plans to integrate the technology with its handheld Learner Response System devices that are used by students to contribute in the classroom in real time at their own pace.
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KIRO Seattle
Jennie Warmouth (PhD ‘17) and her students from Lynnwood Elementary made a donation to support PAWS of Lynnwood on Giving Tuesday. For more than a decade, Warmouth's students have written bios for furry friends looking for adoption.
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Seattle Times
Seattle Times columnist Lynne Varner writes about Seattle Public Schools Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson's new approach of investing more money in fewer schools. Marguerite Roza, research associate professor of education, is quoted.
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The Seattle Times
In an op-ed, Professor Soojin Oh Park discusses how the novel coronavirus pandemic threatens to exacerbate inequalities and systemic oppression that endanger the well-being of underserved children and argues for robust investments in high-quality, affordable child care.