A monthly survey of books, chapters, articles and conference papers written by faculty members and graduate students of Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College.
Leanna Archambault | article (co-author) "Responsible Innovation and Education: integrating values and technology in the classroom" Journal of Responsible Innovation, Sept. 2018
Arizona State University Associate Professor Craig A. Mertler is a man of action — and research.
Christine Kajikawa Wilkinson recently has received two honors recognizing her career that has been dedicated to education and leadership with an extensive history of community service.
Arizona Superintendent, Diane Douglas, proposed new standards developed by Hillsdale College, a private Christian college. However, not all members of the education community are on board. Our own Eileen Merritt, assistant professor shared her concerns with KJZZ.
High school math teacher Andrew Strom felt thrilled when he was recruited for an eight-week stretch working with Arizona State University engineering researchers this past summer.
Another feeling emerged once he began getting immersed in the researchers’ projects.
“It was very humbling because I realized I don’t really know anything,” Strom said with obvious humor.
But the thrill wasn’t gone. It was amplified.
Many people view education as fundamentally a local phenomenon, especially in the United States. Iveta Silova, professor and director of ASU’s Center for Advanced Studies in Global Education, part of Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, says that view needs to be broadened. We need to be much more open to the world, she says. It’s changing all of the time, and so must we.
For the fourth consecutive year, Arizona State University has been named among the top producers of Teach for America corps members, according to 2018 rankings released by Teach for America, the national nonprofit that enlists recent college graduates to teach for two years in high-need urban and rural public schools.
In 2018, ASU climbed in the rankings to the top three, up from No. 4 in 2017, among large institutions included in the 680 contributing colleges and universities.
Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College is dedicated to working with schools and communities to confront a wide range of challenges in education; an imperative in keeping with ASU’s mandate to assume fundamental responsibilities for the communities it serves. For a research university such as ASU, that commitment requires a balance between the merits of pure research and knowledge creation with the demand for research that confronts societal challenges.
When Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College welcomed members of the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate to ASU’s West campus from Oct. 22 to 24, there was cause for local celebration. First, because MLFTC had been selected to host the semi-annual conference of CPED, an international organization of more than 100 public and private colleges that “... work together to undertake a critical examination of the doctorate in education through dialogue, experimentation, critical feedback and evaluation.”
The ASU Alumni Association will honor Sun Devil leadership during the upcoming Nov. 3 Homecoming game, which will pit Arizona State University against the University of Utah.
The Alumni Association will recognize George Dean, president and CEO of the Greater Phoenix Urban League, with its Alumni Service Award, and Ray Schey, publisher of the Phoenix Business Journal, with its Alumni Appreciation Award.
Ryan Abbott, the 2017–18 chair of the organization’s board of directors and National Alumni Council, also will be honored for his service to the organization.