Editor's note: This story is part of a series of profiles of outstanding spring 2020 graduates.
For Arizona State University Police Chief Michael Thompson, the fifth's time the charm: This May will be his fifth time in cap and gown.
Whether you’re going camping in the Superstition Mountains for the weekend or spending two months in the Himalayas, you’re going to need some basic skills: pitching a tent, cooking on a tiny stove and layering your clothes to suit the weather.
Joey LaNeve teaches those skills at Arizona State University in a class called Introduction to Outdoor Recreation.
Stephen Santa-Ramirez (PhD ’20) will be joining the faculty at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, as a tenure-track assistant professor of higher education in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy. He graduated this month with a PhD in Educational Policy and Evaluation from Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University.
Relaunching in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the journal Current Issues in Education returns this month with a special issue on Shaping the Futures of Learning in the Digital Age.
A monthly survey of books, chapters, articles and conference papers written by faculty members and graduate students of Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College
Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with medical researchers in the efforts to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus, social scientists are taking the pulse of society and examining underlying conditions now magnified by the pandemic. The crisis, Arizona State University sociologists say, is shining a light on the cracks of human society that need to be addressed.
Due to the global pandemic, many families are wondering whether and how schools will reopen this fall. Schools might physically reopen and then be forced to close because of a sudden spike in COVID-19 transmission. There are still many uncertainties about how schools will handle new social distancing protocols and the potential shifts between in-person learning and remote instruction.
Through all of this disruption, schools and communities will need to support families and students by addressing challenges having to do with health, instruction and equity.
Mari Koerner, Alice Wiley Snell Professor of Education
Wendy Peia Oakes has been an assistant professor at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University since 2012. Her research and teaching continue a mission she undertook nearly 30 years and three degrees ago as a middle school classroom teacher in College Park, Maryland: improving educational access and outcomes for young children with emotional and behavioral disorders.
Arizona educators and concerned parents are eagerly anticipating direction from state officials on how and when K-12 schools should proceed as their communities continue opening up amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The Arizona Department of Education is expected to release its guidelines for school reopening this week, and an Arizona State University professor said a dynamic and multilayered approach will be required in order to secure students’ learning environments.