Floods, fires, earthquakes and hurricanes. An Arizona State University graduate program sending professionals into the teeth of disasters was ranked the top in the nation this week by U.S. News and World Report, ahead of George Mason University, Naval Postgraduate School and Columbia.
And the Center for Emergency Management and Homeland Security did it just five years after it was created.
A $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education is funding a major collaboration to improve education. The Consortium for Open Active Pathways will use technology to increase the availability of college-level educational materials. Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College is the lead unit in the consortium which partners ASU with three of America’s largest community college systems: the Maricopa Community Colleges in Phoenix, Miami Dade College (Florida) and Ivy Tech Community College (Indiana).
Denis Alvarez knew that she wanted to become a teacher and that she wanted to go to ASU. What she didn’t know was how to pay for it … until a generous donation helped make her dreams come true.
“When I learned I had received a scholarship, and that a private donor had decided to fund the rest of my tuition, I started to cry,” Alvarez says. “I wouldn’t be here without the scholarship.”
Watch Denis’ video.
The American Educational Research Association, the leading organization for advancing knowledge about education and promoting the application of educational research, is holding its 2019 Annual Meeting April 5-9 in Toronto.
Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College is proud to have more than 90 of our scholars presenting, speaking or participating this year. See all their sessions below.
A monthly survey of books, chapters, articles and conference papers written by faculty members and graduate students of Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College.
Audrey Amrein-Beardsley — professor, associate director | Kevin Close — PhD candidate: Learning, Literacies and Technologies
Arizona’s K–12 education system appears to be fairly straightforward at first glance. But it’s easy to get into the weeds when you start digging.
School choice options have become increasingly popular in Arizona in the last few decades, but sometimes it’s hard to distinguish which is the best path to take: public, charter, or private school? What’s the difference?
Arizona native Joan Ganz Cooney created the iconic children’s educational program “Sesame Street” and the Children’s Television Workshop when she worked in television in New York City in the 1960s. When educational television needed funding to keep going, she turned to the late Senator Barry Goldwater, who was a friend of her father’s.
Watch Sherman Dorn, director, division of educational leadership and innovation at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, explain the dramatic story on PBS’ “Arizona Horizon.”
Image by Imani Randle/The State Press
Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College Assistant Professor Keon McGuire was named one of five Emerging Scholars for 2019–21 by the American College Personnel Association. His award was announced at the ACPA–College Student Educators International annual conference, March 3–6 in Boston.
When 300 Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College students begin their senior-year residencies this fall, they will be embarking on a student teaching experience vastly different from what other teacher preparation programs offer. MLFTC is pioneering a new approach to preparing teachers for the education workforce: team-based professional internships and apprenticeships.
While a doctoral candidate at ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Shawn Loescher (EdD ’18) made an impression on everyone with whom he worked, including MLFTC faculty, fellow classmates, his own students and his community. Now, the TED-Ed Innovative Educator program is recognizing him for his accomplishments. TED-Ed announced today that it has named Loescher as one of only 16 extraordinary innovators worldwide for 2019 because of his leadership in advancing education innovation.
