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Great Falls Tribune
Dr. Ann Garfinkle, an alum who taught at the Experimental Education Unit, authored a report by the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services鈥 Developmental Disabilities Program, which details the outcome of the Children鈥檚 Autism Waiver program. The program, which was begun in 2009, and funded through Medicaid to provide 20 hours each week of applied behavior analysis to children with autism.
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Seattle Medium
Sandra Powell, Sarah Pritchett, Mia Williams, Keisha Scarlett and Kristina Bellamy鈥攚ho together applied for the UW's doctoral program in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies and graduated earlier this year鈥攁re raising the bar for academic excellence for both students and teachers.
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Corporate University Xchange
The UW LIFE Team and Boeing won the Innovation Award for Measurement at the 13th annual Corporate University Xchange Awards for Excellence and Innovation.
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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.
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The Daily
Professor Joy Williamson-Lott comments on her plans to engage students in decision-making, how her background as a historian or education will impact her leadership and more.