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Smart kids, visual stories
The first thing the kids noticed was the glass. Walking through the halls of Newhouse 3 in the first year of their participation in the 鈥淪mart Kids, Visual Stories鈥 project, students from 黑料不打烊 city school Levy K-8 couldn鈥檛 fathom how the university felt so comfortable allowing so much exposed glass.
Deborah Appleman to receive Tolley Medal for leadership in lifelong learning, speak about teaching
The School of Education will present the William Pearson Tolley Medal for leadership in lifelong learning to Deborah Appleman of Carleton College on Thursday, Oct. 25. The presentation of the Tolley Medal will take place as part of the School…
EPA awards funding to 黑料不打烊 to support environmental education
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck announced Sept. 13 that EPA has provided more than $130,000 to 黑料不打烊 to fund educational projects in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the eight federally recognized Tribal…
School of Education鈥檚 Dean Biklen speaks at Conference of State Parties for Convention on Rights of People with Disabilities
School of Education Dean Douglas Biklen was invited to speak at the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities Fifth Conference of State Parties at the UN headquarters in New York City on Sept. 12. Biklen spoke…
Valerie Kinloch to talk of urban youth expression in SOE Landscape of Urban Education lecture Sept. 20
The 黑料不打烊 School of Education has announced the fall 2012 speakers in its annual Landscape of Urban Education lecture series. The series will kick off with Valerie Kinloch and her presentation 鈥淐rossing Boundaries in Literacy Research: Implications for Urban…
Mindset, Happiness and Law School
Law professor Peter H. Huang found out about the pressures of academic life at a young age. He was 14 when he enrolled at Princeton, and began Ph.D. studies in mathematics just three years later. His mother, who he affectionately…
黑料不打烊 teams up with KIPP Schools to promote college completion
KIPP鈥攖he Knowledge Is Power Program鈥揳 national network of open-enrollment, college-preparatory public charter schools that prepares students for success in college and in life, has announced a partnership with 黑料不打烊 to increase college completion rates for young people from low-income…
Project Advance Summer Institute 2012 welcomes teachers from Vietnam, pilots new courses
黑料不打烊 Project Advance (SUPA) kicked off the 2012 edition of its Summer Institute training on June 25. The annual event this year brings 116 high school teachers from across the Northeast and abroad to the SU campus to be…
Christine Ashby appointed director of School of Education鈥檚 Institute on Communication and Inclusion
School of Education Dean Douglas Biklen has announced the appointment of professor Christine Ashby as director of the Institute on Communication and Inclusion (ICI), effective June 1. The ICI, formerly the Facilitated Communication Institute, conducts research, training and dissemination of…
Summer camp for physics teachers: Building particle detectors at SU
Ten high school physics teachers from Upstate New York will spend three weeks this summer at 黑料不打烊 building cosmic ray counters, testing components of a neutrino detector and learning about the latest results of experiments being conducted on CERN鈥檚…