Ana Contreras immigrated to Phoenix, Arizona from Mexico with her family when she was three years old. One of her first memories is of Head Start and the kind teachers she had — that kindness continued throughout her education. Contreras says her family didn’t have the means to buy her nice things like some of her classmates had, but her teachers made her feel special. “Whenever I thought about teaching, I thought about kind people,” she says.
Carole Greenes has been honored with the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).
Education has been a hot-button issue recently. Many people engaged in public dialogue, attended walk-ins and organized protests in efforts to effect change throughout the nation.
Situations such as these lead one to wonder: What is the most constructive way to engage in such dialogue? How do we equip our children with argumentation skills to effectively create social change?
Juliet Hart Barnett | Ashleigh Frankel BAE '17 | article (co-authors) "Systematic Review of Evidence-based Interventions in Science for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders" Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 53:2, June 2018
On a bright and warm — not yet dreadfully hot — day in May in Phoenix, Arizona, ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College celebrated the graduation of 704 men and women.
Creativity is increasingly thought to bear significant weight in education. This key shift — one that Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College is deeply involved in — goes beyond the current emphasis on compliance. This shift enables fostering a culture of creativity.
Arizona State University is known as a university in many places — Tempe, Glendale, Mesa, Phoenix and Lake Havasu. But what if students in western Arizona didn’t have to travel to be part of the Sun Devil community?
This spring, ASU@Yuma celebrated its first graduating cohort. The 24 students pursued bachelor's degrees from ASU without ever stepping foot near any of the four metropolitan Phoenix campuses.
The 2016 and 2017 rounds of the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College internal grants program provided support for 15 research projects conducted by individuals and interdisciplinary teams comprising 20 MLFTC faculty members, three doctoral students and one staff member; and six faculty members of other colleges and institutions. Here’s a review of the projects and some of their results.
The Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College Office of Scholarship and Innovation has announced the recipients of its 2018 internal research grants. Each year, this highly competitive program supports the diverse interests and innovative approaches of MLFTC faculty researchers, both tenure-track and clinical, with winners selected through peer review by previous recipients.
Between 2001 and 2011, ASU’s freshman retention rate improved from 80 to 84 percent. Increases in subsequent years brought ASU’s one-year retention rate to nearly 87 percent, and the overall graduation rate to 67 percent; both well above the national medians of 68 and 42, and besting the University of Arizona (81 and 61 percent), Northern Arizona University (74, 52) and Grand Canyon University (65, 31), according to the National Center for Education Statistics.