Dr. Lynne Cook, dean of the California State University, Dominguez Hills College of Education, was honored with the TED/Merrill Excellence in Teacher Education Award by the Council for Exceptional Children’s Teacher Education Division on April 4 at the Council’s annual meeting in Boston.

Like many American schoolchildren in the 20th century, Mitch Maki didn’t learn much about the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. “I was in [probably] the fifth grade, when I actually learned about the fact that Japanese Americans had been incarcerated during World War II,” he recalls. “And I was convinced it wasn’t Japanese Americans like me. It must have been the Japanese from Japan, because they wouldn’t put people like me in camp.”