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Rachel Endo is Founding Dean of the School of Education and a Professor at the University of Washington Tacoma. She holds a Ph.D. in Language and Literacy Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
A nationally recognized scholar of Asian/American education, bilingual education, critical/decolonizing approaches to multicultural education, immigrant/refugee education, and urban teacher education, Endo is the author of multiple publications that have appeared in high-impact journals in education such as Bilingual Research Journal, Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, Education & Urban Society, Equity & Excellence in Education, Journal of Language, Identity & Education, The Urban Review, Urban Education, among others.
In 2017, the National Association for Multicultural Education awarded her with the Carl A. Grant Award for Research Excellence. She has received dozens of other awards and recognitions for her commitment to equity and excellence in education.
She is the author of 3 academic books including the award-winning The Incarceration of Japanese Americans in the 1940s: Literature for the High School Classroom (2018, Urbana, IL- The National Council of Teachers of English). NCTE's Literacy section also recently published a supplement to her book where she offers classroom-connected strategies for secondary educators to discuss the U.S.'s current "border crisis" with their students in a post titled "Criminalizing Racialized Bodies: Then and Now."
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About Rachel Endo
Rachel Endo is Founding Dean of the School of Education and a Professor at the University of Washington Tacoma. She holds a Ph.D. in Language and Literacy Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
A nationally recognized scholar of Asian/American education, bilingual education, critical/decolonizing approaches to multicultural education, immigrant/refugee education, and urban teacher education, Endo is the author of multiple publications that have appeared in high-impact journals in education such as Bilingual Research Journal, Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, Education & Urban Society, Equity & Excellence in Education, Journal of Language, Identity & Education, The Urban Review, Urban Education, among others.
In 2017, the National Association for Multicultural Education awarded her with the Carl A. Grant Award for Research Excellence. She has received dozens of other awards and recognitions for her commitment to equity and excellence in education.
She is the author of 3 academic books including the award-winning The Incarceration of Japanese Americans in the 1940s: Literature for the High School Classroom (2018, Urbana, IL- The National Council of Teachers of English). NCTE's Literacy section also recently published a supplement to her book where she offers classroom-connected strategies for secondary educators to discuss the U.S.'s current "border crisis" with their students in a post titled "Criminalizing Racialized Bodies: Then and Now."