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Are you interested in becoming a teacher? Unsure if teaching is right for you? Worried you will not complete the program in time? Do you want to know how to incorporate the education program with your major? Interested in other educational opportunities - the education minor, teaching abroad, or community...

The University of Colorado Boulder greatly expanded its CU Promise program for low-income students this fall resulting in funding assistance becoming available for more than 700 additional students. The CU Promise program guarantees that CU Boulder students with Colorado resident status from low-income families can receive enough grants and work-study...

The Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University has released a new report, "Public Accountability for Charter Schools: Standards and Policy Recommendations for Effective Oversight." PhD student Julia Daniel (EFPP) provided research support with author Leigh Dingerson. Click here to access the report.

CEA Executive Director Tony Salazar is leaving the Colorado Education Association to become the Chief Affiliate Officer, a senior management position, with the National Education Association’s Member Benefits Corporation, based in Gaithersburg, Md. His last day with CEA is September 26. Salazar joined the CEA staff in September 2001 as...

PhD Candidate Ryan Pfleger offered his views on the findings of the most recent KIDS COUNT Data Book report released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Education and health have improved for US children, says annual report Child-wellness indicators like education and health came off better in the most recent...

For one transformative week in July, thirty high school students from across the state engaged in the second annual Aquetza: Youth Leadership, Education and Community Empowerment summer program. “Aquetza” roughly translates as “lift your chin up” in Nahuatl, the language of the Mexica/Aztec indigenous people of central and northern México...

Professor Bill Penuel was invited as a guest author to contribute a two-part series on research-practice partnerships for the Albert Shanker Institute. Why Teachers And Researchers Should Work Together For Improvement Posted by Bill Penuel on September 4, 2014 Our guest author today is Bill Penuel, professor of educational psychology...

Jessica Alzen, a PhD candidate in the Research and Evaluation Methodology (REM) program, was recently awarded a highly competitive fellowship from the American Educational Research Association's (AERA) inaugural Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Dissertation Fellowship Program . The program supports dissertation-stage graduate students who use data from the MET project–which...

Vicki Hand and colleagues across the U.S. were awarded a four-year National Science Foundation (NSF) Discovery Research K-12 (DRK-12) grant . The team will support teachers, district administrators, and community leaders in studying and creating a more equitable mathematics system. Related Faculty: Victoria Hand

Two of the School of Education’s CU Teach class of 2014 alumni, Eric Rasmussen , MA (Biology), and Rosemary Wulf (Physics) have been awarded prestigious five-year fellowships from the Knowles Science Teaching Foundation (KSTF). Only 32 fellowships were given out nationwide this year, and Rosemary and Eric make a total...