In the News

Library Journal, names 'Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education' one of the "Best References of 2012." Edited by Dr. James A. Banks, "This landmark study serves both as a history of where we’ve been and a road map to where we need to be."

Professor James A. Banks discusses the field of multicultural education and the changes that are still needed in school systems across the country and abroad.

Experts discussed rising college costs and ways to make degrees more valuable in a Tuesday forum at the governor’s mansion, kicking off efforts to revamp Tennessee’s higher education system. Dr. William Zumeta is quoted. 

Leadership for Learning graduate Denise Bill is the first Muckleshoot Tribe woman to earn a doctorate degree. We are proud to count her as one of our alums! 

Professor Joy Williamson-Lott's new book "Jim Crow Campus: Higher Education and the Struggle for a New Southern Social Order," which explores the fight for academic freedom and free speech at colleges in the South in the 1960s and ’70s, is featured.

Virginia Berninger is among those interviewed at Handwriting in the 21st Century? An Educational Summit, where researchers presented findings in areas ranging from occupational therapy to neuroscience that document the impact of handwriting on kids' learning.

A gathering for local educators and community members that discussed various forms of injustices in our public education system was recently organized by the Banks Center for Educational Justice.

UW College of Education alumni Tina Y. Gourd and Jennifer Gale de Saxe are co-editors of the new book “Radical Educators Rearticulating Education and Social Change: Teacher Agency and Resistance, Early 20th Century to the Present.”