• Read more about Ensuring the last chance for kids in the AZ justice system isn’t a dead end

There are more than 400 high schools in Arizona. You see their students in your neighborhood, walking to school or waiting for the bus, in a nearby Target store shopping for school supplies in late summer, or loudly filling a high school football stadium under Friday night lights.

But there is one Arizona high school whose students you never see. They don’t take the bus. They don’t shop. They don’t go to the game. They don’t even go home after school because home and school are behind the same tall fence topped with razor wire.

• Read more about It’s all fun and games until somebody learns computer science

• Read more about Profile in intrapreneurship: Alumnus leads across disciplines

Alumnus Jeffrey Leeds (PhD ’91) recounts the hundreds of times he handed someone a business card: First, they’re impressed he has a PhD and ask what he studied. “I respond by telling them I have a doctorate in educational psychology from ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College,” Leeds says. The follow-up question, “What in the world are you doing in strategic alliances at a technology company?”

• Read more about Discoveries abound at ASU Open Door at West campus

Arizona State University's Open Door continued at the West campus in Glendale on Saturday, where visitors learned about forensics, toured the biomedical research lab, played games, hung out with Sparky and more.

From the crime scene lab to the science of neurons, the event gave hundreds of attendees a look at the colleges, schools, programs and student groups that help make ASU the most innovative university in the country.

• Read more about 'Education by Design' reimagines the classroom

It’s a bold thing for an education dean of a major university to admit: The education system doesn’t work well enough for enough people and communities, and colleges of education have to change in order to be part of the solution.  

Colleges must respond more urgently and creatively to the fact that the teacher shortage is at crisis levels, and the pipeline is thinning. 

• Read more about Wanted: a new breed of leader for a new kind of education workforce

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Some may say what we’re doing with education is insane. Here in the United States, we don’t have the education workforce we require and, yet, we keep using the same model that was designed in the early 20th century.

• Read more about MLFTC faculty publication roundup, March

Juliet Hart Barnett chapter (co-author) —Bilingualism (Sage Encyclopedia of Intellectual and Developmental Disorders)

• Read more about Where are all of the Black women in STEM?

The absence of Black women in STEM is not unique to South Africa. The U.S. and U.K. face the same challenge but, Yeukai Angela Mlambo, postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Advanced Studies in Global Education at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College says, “In South Africa it’s particularly curious given Black women are the majority of the population, hold more engineering graduate degrees than white women and the country is more than 20 years post-apartheid.”

• Read more about ASU-led donation drive delivers much-needed supplies to schools in Puerto Rico

• Read more about Teachers need a global perspective: Get one with Fulbright

Teachers have the unique opportunity to touch a life so profoundly that the information they convey will live on with a student forever. Every teacher knows this. They receive letters, notes and invitations from former students for decades after they’ve left the classroom.