Regents Professors are considered to be the best and brightest scholars and the top researchers at Arizona State University. Less than 3% of all ASU faculty hold the title. In order to receive the Regents Professor title, faculty must be recognized by their peers nationally and internationally. On November 18, names were submitted to President Michael M. Crow and approved by the Arizona Board of Regents. Karen Harris, Mary Emily Warner Professor of Education at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, was one of those names.
Scientists have been sounding the alarm on the climate crisis for nearly three decades, and we still face major challenges. A group of Arizona State University educators are reaching out to youth for solutions.
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The country experienced a “hangover” from the last workforce-oriented push in education, which focused on teacher evaluation and within that, far too much on ridding schools of the least effective teachers, says Bryan Hassel, co-president of Public Impact, an education policy and management consulting firm in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Karen Pittman, a sociologist, has spent the past 50 years working to bring research on how youth learn and develop, and how adults can support them, into policy and practice at the national, state and local levels. No small feat.
As co-founder and senior fellow of the Forum for Youth Investment, a national nonprofit focusing on the development of youth, Pittman is committed to ensuring all young people are ready, by the age of 21, for college, work and life.
Professional development is critical in every career, particularly education. All educators need to be equipped with best practices based on current research in order to do their job effectively. And because classrooms are increasingly becoming more diverse, educators benefit from observing and interacting with colleagues outside of their districts, especially internationally.
In February, the Center on Reinventing Public Education will be formally affiliating with Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. The announcement was made today by MLFTC Dean Carole Basile and CRPE Director Robin Lake.
Sun Devils are known for being able to withstand the heat, especially during trying times.
But nothing feels better to Sun Devils right now than being able to celebrate one of ASU’s biggest events in the crisp Arizona winter after a pandemic pause.
Education in times of global crisis: How private actors in Germany gain power through Twitter
By: Johannes Schuster and Nina Kolleck, Leipzig University
Published in: Education Policy Analysis Archives, Nov. 29, 2021
The Center on Reinventing Public Education, which formally joins MLFTC in February 2022, made headlines this month for its research on how the pandemic has affected — and continues to affect — education, school districts, teachers, students and families.
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Have you ever thought about the amount of single-use plastic cutlery disposed of daily on the ASU Tempe campus? How about in a semester? Or a year?