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Professor Emeritus David Berliner of Arizona State University and Professor Gene Glass of CU-Boulder recently published 50 Myths & Lies that Threaten America's Public Schools: The Real Crisis in Education . Each chapter offers research-based information to counter the most widespread and insidious assumptions about public education today. Three School...

By Sarah Kuta, Daily Camera Three middle school students dressed in masks to look like old men hobbled to the front of the stage at Old Main on the University of Colorado campus. With canes in hand and wearing sombreros, the three "old men" pretended to fall down while still...

Monday kicked off Colorado Literacy Week , led by Lt. Governor Joe Garcia each May to encourage continued reading through the summer and to learn about best practices. Throughout the state, Garcia is visiting early childhood through secondary programs, after-school programs, special education programs, home interventions, libraries, and book giveaways,...

This post was adapted from articles by Will Dunham for Reuters, Sarah Kuta for the Daily Camera , and Dennis Thompson for Healthday . School of Education alumnus Ben Domingue, PhD (REM, 2012) recently released a study conducted with CU Boulder Sociology Professor Jason Boardman, that has garnered a great...

Last year, we reported on a semester long partnership between the School of Education and McElwain Elementary in the Adams 12 Five Star School District, in which teacher education students worked weekly in third grade classrooms as Reading and Writing ‘Buff Buddies.’ This spring, Professors Elizabeth Dutro and Bridget Dalton...

Bethy Leonardi, PhD (2014, EFPP) and Sara Staley, PhD Candidate (Literacy) have been working on a groundbreaking documentary called Breaking the Silence: Honoring the Voices of LGBTQ Youth and Allies in Supporting our Teachers . As featured by ABC News Denver, the Daily Camera , the Boulder County Business Report,...

The Society of Professors of Education selected the National Education Policy Center (NEPC), housed in the School of Education and led by Professor Kevin Welner, as the 2014 winner of the Wisniewski Award. The award is given annually to an institution which has made a significant contribution to the theory...

Doctoral candidate Karla del Rosal will join the Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas in fall 2014. As Assistant Professor of English Language Learning and Bilingual Education, Karla will continue to pursue her research interests in the education of emergent...

The American Educational Research Association's (AERA) Division G, Social Contexts of Education, recently honored Kris Gutiérrez , professor of Educational Psychology and Learning Sciences and of Literacy Studies, with a Lifetime Achievement Award as well as the Henry T. Trueba Award for Research Leading to the Transformation of the Social...

The American Educational Research Association's (AERA) Bilingual Education Research Special Interest Group (SIG) honored Kathy Escamilla , professor of Educational Equity and Cultural Diversity and assistant director of the BUENO Center for Multicultural Education, with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the AERA annual conference that took place April 3-7, 2014...