The COVID-19 pandemic has been a globally disruptive force to our human systems for over a year. 

Scholars have already begun researching the effects of the catastrophe as it’s unfolding. But what will that inquiry look like in five years, or a few decades from now? How will researchers measure the shock to and resilience of society?

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a globally disruptive force to our human systems for over a year. 

Scholars have already begun researching the effects of the catastrophe as it’s unfolding. But what will that inquiry look like in five years, or a few decades from now? How will researchers measure the shock to and resilience of society?

The Biden administration must work to quickly reopen schools or else longer-term challenges, like improving learning outcomes and working conditions for teachers, will be overshadowed, says David R. Garcia, associate professor at ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. Garcia, who was also the Democratic nominee for Arizona governor in 2018, weighs in on the new administration’s priorities, funding for education, school choice and more. 

It’s “inspiring to be with so many like-minded educators trying new things with students,” says one educator at SPARK School at Kyrene de las Manitas in Phoenix, Arizona. 

“At the end of the day, I am beat but after these meetings, I am so inspired!!!,” writes another educator from Brinton Elementary in Mesa, Arizona. 

ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College placed No. 11 among 277 institutions that responded to the survey conducted by U.S. News & World Report for its 2022 rankings of America’s graduate schools of education. 

Among public universities, the college was ranked No. 4, ahead of the  University of California-Berkeley, the University of Texas-Austin and the University of Virginia. 

Arizona State University has 14 graduate degree programs ranked in the top 10 nationwide, according to new rankings released by U.S. News & World Report.

Of the 14 top-ranked degree programs, half are in the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions. The list was released March 30 after the magazine assessed more than 2,100 degree programs for 2022.

U.S. News & World Report provides several higher education rankings throughout the year, and last fall rated ASU as the most innovative university in the country for the sixth year in a row.

Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College placed No. 11 among 277 institutions that responded to the survey conducted by U.S. News & World Report for its 2022 rankings of America’s graduate schools of education. 

Among public universities, the college was ranked No. 4, ahead of the  University of California-Berkeley, the University of Texas-Austin and the University of Virginia. 

In the span of a century, students with autism have gone from being institutionalized in sanitariums to having careers in the STEM field. And despite those strides, academic institutions and teachers still don’t have a firm handle on how to effectively educate many students with this disorder.

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