• Read more about Are white Arizona school districts receiving more funding than non-white?

EdBuild, a nonprofit studying education funding, recently published a report citing that nationwide and in Arizona, predominately white school districts get more money per student than non-white districts. The gap? A hefty $23 billion.

In Arizona, schools that serve mostly non-white students receive 46 percent fewer dollars than mostly white schools, creating a $7,613 difference per student according to the report. Many of the mostly white Arizona districts are small, rural districts while those with mostly non-white students are in larger, urban districts.

• Read more about HYSA students honored with Cambridge Scholars Awards

Late last month, 12 Herberger Young Scholars Academy students were recognized with prestigious awards from Cambridge Assessment International Education to acknowledge their outstanding performance in the Cambridge examination series. The Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education is the world’s most popular international curriculum for 14 to 16-year-olds. It’s internationally recognized by leading universities and employers.

• Read more about iTeachELLs: Ensuring Access for ALL Learners

iTeachELLs Project Director, Wendy Farr was recently featured in the Arizona Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (AZTESOL) Newsletter where she shares information on materials that can help teachers become more deeply involved in practice and awareness when working in classrooms with culturally and linguistically diverse learners.

Click here to view the newsletter.

• Read more about Kristen Hadeed, Learning from Doing

Last August, the iTeachELLs Teacher Quality Partnership Project sponsored a visit from Kristen Hadeed, founder of Student Maid and author of the book “Permission to Screw Up.” Kristen gave a talk and facilitated a workshop on leadership, “Learning from Doing – Exploring the role of teachers as transformational leaders.” To capture the inspiring event, the iTeachELLs team assembled a story map which includes teacher resources, videos and participant responses.

• Read more about Again for 2020, ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College ranks among the best

ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College placed No. 16 among 392 institutions surveyed in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of America’s graduate schools of education. Among public universities, the college was ranked No. 7, ahead of the University of Virginia and the University of California-Berkeley. This year’s USNWR survey solidifies ASU’s ascent to the top tier of colleges of education since 2012, when it ranked No. 35 in the survey.

• Read more about US News ranks ASU's disaster management program top in nation

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.

• Read more about $2.5M from US Dept of Ed funds 21st-century open-resource learning project

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).

• Read more about Making dreams come true

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.

• Read more about Our scholars at AERA 2019

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.

• Read more about MLFTC faculty publication roundup, March 2019

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