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Dear New Member of the Class of 2019, Congratulations on your acceptance to CU-Boulder. While at CU, you will have many opportunities to explore fields of study and career pathways. As Dean of the School of Education, I write to introduce you to opportunities at CU to study teaching, learning,...

CU Department of History Distinguished Professor Emerita Marjorie McIntosh, School of Education Instructor Kent Willmann , and former Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) administrator Leonora Velasquez have been working to ensure that Latino/a experiences and contributions are included in local schools' history curricula. As a collaborative, grass-roots initiative, the Boulder...

Hayley Vatch, a Master's degree student in the Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice program , teaches Sociology at South High School in Denver. This fall, Vatch and her students have engaged in a deep examination of the historical and sociological roots of race and racism, as well as the current...

By invitation of the CU-Boulder Athletic Department, Professor Valerie Otero was featured during the Colorado Buffaloes football game on November 29th against Utah as the "Faculty Coach of the Game." Faculty members are nominated to be Faculty Coach of the Game by student-athletes, the Boulder Faculty Assembly, the Chancellor's Office,...

Professor Ben Kirshner (CU-Boulder) and Ellen Middaugh ( Mills College ) have edited a newly released book, #youthaction: Becoming Political in the Digital Age . Read more about the book below or visiit Information Age Publishing for more information and to purchase a copy. #youthaction: Becoming Political in the Digital...

In its Second Annual 15-Second Vocabulary Video Contest, The New York Times recently featured the work of Professor Bridget Dalton in "developing vocabulary through multimodal expression." Professor Dalton uses a variety of technological approaches to enhance literacy instruction. In the Literacy Beat post that is cited in the article, Professor...

Click here to read or listen to this original story on National Public Radio (NPR). Teach For America At 25: With Maturity, New Pressure To Change This story was reported for the radio by Eric Westervelt and for online by Anya Kamenetz. "We, the Committee of Public Safety, find Jean...

The CU-Boulder School of Education and Chautauqua have collaborated to create the first-ever Education Series at the Chautauqua Community House. The series, "Learning In & Out of School," offers one forum per month on an education topic of current interest to parents and educators. Don't miss this excellent series! Tickets...

Click here to read this article in The Conversation. Affirmative action should be viewed in global context by Professor Michele S. Moses (CU-Boulder) and Professor Laura D. Jenkins (University of Cincinnati) This article appeared in The Conversation , November 13 2014, 5.30am EST. “Affirmative action won’t be around for much...

Click here to see this article on the CU-Boulder website. Click here to read about Professor Otero being named a 2015 President's Teaching Scholar. Faculty in Focus No. 4: The science educator Judas Priest blasting through her earbuds, Valerie Otero rocks to the beat of heavy metal music while she...