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.
Areej Mawasi will graduate from ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College next month with her PhD in Learning, Literacies and Technologies. Also in May, she’ll finish work on what amounted to an early graduation present: Mawasi is one of 25 students from 21 nations selected for the Spring 2021 “Research Sprint” launched by the Digital Asia Hub, a nonprofit think tank based in Hong Kong; and Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, in collaboration with the Global Network of Internet and Society Centers.
As many schools prepare to reopen this fall, many educators are wondering what challenges to anticipate and what tools they’ll need to “get back to normal” — if that’s even possible. Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, in collaboration with What Schools Could Be, will be hosting Project Springboard — April through August, 2021 — a series of design studio sessions to help educators build on this momentum for change as they get ready for the upcoming school year.