• Read more about ASU leads in education research

Arizona State University leads the nation in funded research related to education, according to the 2023-24 U.S. News & World Report ranking of graduate colleges of education. In the 2022 academic year, ASU reported $73.1 million in education research expenditures. New York University reported the second highest funded research total of $71.4 million. This is the second consecutive year that ASU has ranked first in the survey of 272 graduate colleges of education in research spending. 

• Read more about ASU's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College will connect young people across regions with support from the J. Christopher Stevens Virtual Exchange Initiative

Phoenix, AZ, April 25, 2023 – Today, the Stevens Initiative announced Arizona State University’s (ASU) Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College is one of 15 schools, higher education institutions, and nonprofit organizations to receive funding to run virtual exchange programs that connect young people in the United States and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

• Read more about Opinion: Gilbert Daniels, the gardener who changed our world

By: Punya Mishra, associate dean of Scholarship and Innovation and professor 

Originally published on punyamishra.com

• Read more about From our journals: Unaccompanied immigrant children, the climate crisis and collaboration between families and schools

A critical examination of policies and practices impacting the education of unaccompanied immigrant children in the United States

By: Ruth M. López, University of Houston and Natalia Giraldo-Santiago, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

• Read more about ASU Teaching Fellows offers paraeducators accelerated degree pathway

This fall, Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College will welcome the first ASU Teaching Fellows cohorts. The initiative offers an accelerated and supportive pathway for paraeducators, who are school employees that assist certified teachers, to earn their own elementary education or special education certification and bachelor's degree while continuing to work in Arizona classrooms. 

• Read more about How ASU is building a national network of team-based schools

More than a dozen school systems across the United States are designing pilots of Next Education Workforce™ models this spring. Rather than isolating one teacher in one classroom with 30 or so students, these models bring together teams of educators with distributed expertise around a larger roster of students — a change that allows educators to deepen and personalize learning for their students, while also creating opportunities for educators to specialize and advance in their profession. 

• Read more about Faculty publication roundup, March 2023

Hans van der Mars, emeritus professor

• Read more about Three guiding questions for world history state standards

Lauren Harris, associate professor of history education at Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, has been conducting research for more than a decade on the to