Introduction: Striving for social justice and equity in higher education
By: Irina Okhemtchouk, San Francisco State University; Caroline Turner, Professor Emeritus at MLFTC’s division of educational leadership and policy studies, Lincoln Professor of Ethics and Education at Arizona State University; Patrick Newell, California State University, Chico
In an op-ed published in The Conversation, Sherman Dorn writes about the importance of trust in our nation’s schools — and how it is continually ignored or overlooked — especially during the pandemic. News coverage, says Dorn, focuses on wearing masks, social distancing in classrooms and ventilation, whereas the topic of trust gets little attention.
The American Rescue Plan allocates $129 billion to address severe disruptions to school life caused by COVID-19. After the education emergency funding has been spent, what lasting, sustainable improvements will we have brought to our education system?
What if education systems were doing more and thinking differently about preparing learners to thrive in the future?
In fall 2020, after a renewed cry for social justice in America, Arizona State University President Michael Crow announced the university’s commitment to address social transformation by implementing 25 actions designed to support Black faculty, staff and students.
The ASU Graduate College has announced the awardees of the fifth annual Graduate College Knowledge Mobilization Awards. The daylong virtual event featured four graduate student and postdoctoral scholar finalist sessions, a faculty panel and the awards presentation, which featured a keynote address by Ronald Beghetto of ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College.
Four Melikian Center affiliates have recently received grants from the National Center for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER) to conduct research.
NCEEER was established in 1978 to ensure the long-term funding of peer-reviewed research on the region. The organization seeks to bridge the gap between academic research and public policy by supporting projects that address pressing global issues.
A monthly survey of books, chapters, articles, conference papers and presentations by faculty members and graduate students of Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College
The disruption of 2020 didn’t deter the students of Herberger Young Scholars Academy. Seventeen students were recognized with prestigious awards from Cambridge Assessment International Education for the spring 2020 Cambridge examination series. HYSA is a school for gifted students in grades 7–12 and affiliated with Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College.
Editor's note: This story is part of a series of profiles of notable spring 2021 graduates.
Dawn Demps always knew she was going to be a teacher.
At 9 years old, she gathered up younger kids from her neighborhood in Flint, Michigan, cutting peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and doling them out on her front porch.