Education policy in the U.S. runs on data. Yet the amount and breadth of data available can outpace the ability of policymakers and administrators to digest it. This is particularly true in higher education administration, says Rebecca T. Barber.
Eleven students in a new Arizona State University Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College degree program have been hired by the Foundation for Blind Children, after just a year in the program.
“Arizona has a 33 percent shortage of teachers of the visually impaired,” says Marc Ashton, CEO of the Foundation for Blind Children. “And together, ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College and the Foundation for Blind Children are going to solve this problem — in just a few short years.”
By: Manini Ojha, O.P. Jindal Global University; Mohammad Arshad Rahman, Zayed University
Published in: Education Policy Analysis Archives, June 21, 2021
“I spent over 20 years as a classroom teacher, and for most of that time I was a single teacher trying to meet the needs of all learners, at all times.
Youth, says Katja Brundiers, assistant clinical professor in ASU’s School of Sustainability, are the most affected by the climate emergency and unsustainability today,
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In July 2019, for the second consecutive year, educators from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia came to ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College for English classes and professional development before starting the spring 2020 semester immersed in public schools in metropolitan Phoenix.
“We are in a time where solidarity work is needed more than ever. If we can create lasting change in education and society, it's going to take collective efforts,” says Amanda Tachine, assistant professor at Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College and co-founder of the Cultivating Black and Native Futures in Education Conference.
Steve Graham, Mary Emily Warner Professor of Education, is the 2021 recipient of the William S. Gray Citation of Merit from the International Literacy Association.