Israel offers as intriguing a panorama of cultural, historical, religious and political significance as just about any place in the world.
An opportunity to meet some of the people and see some of the prominent places at the center of such a pulsating environment draws interest from hundreds of faculty members at colleges and universities in the United States in joining the two excursions each year to Israel organized by the Jewish National Fund.
In 2017, we articulated a bold vision for our college and for education in general. With the help of many partners, we took a hard look at what a 21st-century college of education should do and be in light of the shortage of teachers, the range of challenges faced by schools, and the persistent fact that our education system doesn’t work well enough for enough people and communities. 2017 is the year we began to reimagine education.
Earlier this month at a well-attended event, David Berliner, Regents Professor Emeritus at ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, spoke about the responsibility of scholars in education to speak out against misunderstandings and lies.
Berliner was passionate and armed with statistics to support his stance: Income inequality causes problems in education.
Speaking truth to power
Arizona State University lost one of its most generous supporters last week with the death of Bruce Halle, who built Discount Tire from one small showroom in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1960 into one of the most successful independent tire dealerships in the industry’s history.
"Learning to Teach in England and the United States,” written by Maria Teresa Tatto and her colleagues, has been released by Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
Late 2017 and early 2018 ushered forth a new assortment of insightful scholarship, published in a variety of journals and books by our own faculty members. From evocative firsthand accounts of growing up and receiving an education in a socialist regime to resources for teachers to help students more proactively deal with ADHD in a digital age, you’ll want to hear from our distinguished faculty firsthand.
A lab at Arizona State University is measuring the link between exercise and higher thinking.
The experiments, part of the partnership that ASU has forged with adidas to explore the future of sport, are being done in the iLux Lab, which stands for “Innovative Learner and User Experience.”
Eileen Merritt knows how to get kids excited about science: Show them a problem — say, a threat to the environment — and give them the tools they need to help address it.
Mahatma Gandhi said, “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” Alumna Nicolle Karantinos (EdD ’09) took that advice — and found that it worked. Karantinos’s first career was as a financial planner, but she wasn’t happy. She craved the passion and commitment her husband and sister, both educators, had for their careers. Wanting a taste of what they had, Karantinos began volunteering at a local junior high school. “That was the moment I knew I wanted to go into education,” she says.
A photo from the late 1960s of a picnic in Papago Park shows Rudy Lavik (center, in hat), Bill Kajikawa (front right), Charlotte Lavik (behind Kajikawa) and Margaret Kajikawa (second from left). Image courtesy of the family.
The name of Rudy Lavik is honored in the Sun Devil Sports Hall of Fame. His five-year tenure in his highest-profile position for Arizona State Teachers College, head football coach, wasn’t nearly as long as those of fellow hall of famers, Frank Kush and Bruce Snyder. And his win-loss record from 1933 to 1937 was 13-26-3.