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Viewpoint

The UW Brotherhood Initiative, led by Professor Joe Lott, is advocating for black and brown students on campus.

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Indian Country Today

The Native Education Certificate program offered by the University of Washington College of Education is noted as part of efforts in Washington state to incorporate indigenous knowledge into curriculum and support Native learners.

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Priced to Change

Ken Zeichner, Boeing professor of teacher education, makes the case for why teachers should use community leaders in their continuing education curriculum to become better teachers.

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UW Daily

Professor James Mazza's course “Wellness and Resilience for College and Beyond," which aims to help improve student resilience through difficult and stressful times, is noted.

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KING 5

Professor Ilene Schwartz, director of the UW's Haring Center for Research and Training in Inclusive Education, comments on the importance of inclusive education to improve student outcomes.

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CNN

Former UW TEP student Jesse Hagopian is a public high school teacher in Seattle and has been very involved in the national conversation about standardized testing. In January 2013, teachers at Seattle’s Garfield High School unanimously voted to stop administering a widely used standardized test, the MAP test, saying that the test is deeply flawed and is unfairly used to grade student performance. As the number of educators boycotting this test increases, Hagopian has been speaking with bloggers, journalists, and, most recently, CNN News.

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The Seattle Times

UW College of Education professors Angel Fettig and Kathleen Artman Meeker outline steps to end discriminatory discipline and make early learning programs work better for each and every child.

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CNN

Noah Zeichner, a TEP alum, has written an editorial on school leadership for CNN. Noah is a National Board-certified teacher at Chief Sealth International School in Seattle.
 

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Crosscut

Science and technology teacher Zoë Dash (MEd '11) discusses how children interact with a living classroom powered by sun, rainwater and exploration at Seattle's Perkins School.

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Time
On Sept. 19, news broke of yet another adolescent suicide related to bullying. The boy, Jamey Rodemeyer, was 14 years old and identified alternately as gay or bisexual. He had withstood years of bullying, especially online. Just days after his death, many of the country's leading experts on bullying convened in Washington for the second annual National Anti-Bullying Summit. Clay Cook and Karin Frey are quoted.