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Professor Bill Penuel has been selected as a 2014 AERA Fellow for his outstanding contributions to education research. He will be inducted during the 2014 Annual Meeting in Philadephia on April 4th. AERA 2014 Fellows Announced WASHINGTON, D.C., March 5, 2014 ─ The American Educational Research Association has announced the...

by Margaret Eisenhart and Erin Allaman In January, School of Education faculty and students gathered at the Koenig Alumni Center to celebrate young women who participated in “Female Recruits Explore Engineering” (FREE), an after-school program and research project I directed with former doctoral students Terra Morris (Education), Daria Kotys-Schwartz (Mechanical...

Doctoral alumnus Bud Talbot (2011) is carrying his School of Education experiences into his work as Assistant Professor at CU Denver. With alumnus Rodney Nielsen (Computer Science, 2008) and Professor Micki Chi of Arizona State University, Bud is part of an innovative project known as Comprehension through Self-Explanation, Enhanced Discussion...

Ken Cooper, a 1982 graduate of the School of Education's former doctoral program in school administration, recently published Becoming a Great School: Harnessing the Powers of Quality Management and Collaborative Leadership with co-authors Nels Gustafson and Joseph Salah. The book draws on Dr. Cooper's 39 years as a professional educator,...

A discussion paper by Professor Derek Briggs, prepared for the National Association for College Admission Counseling, was cited in a recent New York Times Magazine article on "The Story Behind the SAT Overhaul." Professor Briggs's paper summarizes his own and others' research on the impact of SAT preparation on SAT...

The Association for Institutional Research (AIR) recently honored Dr. Matthew Gaertner, a 2011 doctoral graduate of the Research and Evaluation Methodology program, and co-authors Jeongeun Kim, Stephen DesJardins, and Katie McClarty with the 2013 Charles F. Elton Best Paper Award. The article, "Preparing Students for College and Careers: The Causal...

AACTE’s Annual Meeting to Spotlight Kris Gutiérrez AACTE’s 2014 Speaker Spotlight Session will feature Kris Gutiérrez, professor of literacy and learning sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Gutiérrez uses her expertise to improve the educational condition of immigrant and other underserved students, in both school-based and community settings,...

In celebration of the National Council on Measurement in Education's (NCME) 75th anniversary, Statistics Views interviewed Professor Derek Briggs about the important role of statistics in education. Professor Briggs is the current Editor-in-Chief of NCME's flagship journal, Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice ( EM:IP ). NCME celebrates 75 years: An...

by Lisa Schwartz and Kris Gutiérrez In May, the Learning Sciences space in the School of Education was humming with the voices of children and adults mixed with the sound of motors and the glow of LED lights. The voices belonged to Professor Kris Gutiérrez ’s research and teaching team,...

MA+ students in Professor Dan Liston's Advanced Social Foundations of Education (EDUC 5005) course enjoyed the opportunity to hold personal meetings via Skype with two leaders in educational reform. After viewing the well-known documentary, Waiting for Superman, and reading related literature on education reform and history, students Skyped with Randy...