UW News
Janine Jones
April 6, 2021
Back to school in springtime: UW experts offer tips for adjusting pandemic-era routines
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University of Washington experts in education and psychology offer tips for families on the return to in-person school after a year of remote learning.
December 21, 2017
Promoting self-esteem among African-American girls through racial, cultural connections
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For African-American students, data, alongside societal attitudes and stereotypes, often present a negative picture: a wide academic achievement gap separating them from their white peers. Higher rates of discipline and absenteeism. Discrimination by other students, teachers and the larger community. And just last summer, a study indicated that black girls, from an early…