Alfredo Artiles, dean of ASU’s Graduate College and Ryan C. Harris Memorial Endowed Professor of Special Education, was one of three to receive the inaugural Spencer Mentor Award on April 17.
Arizona’s new state budget includes $15 million for the Arizona Teachers Academy, which provides tuition scholarships to students pursuing teacher certification at Arizona’s three public universities and selected community colleges. Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College operates the largest teacher-preparation program in the state, and ASU is aiming to fund more than 1,000 undergraduate and master’s degree students pursuing degrees that lead to initial teacher certification.
Arizona’s new state budget includes $15 million for the Arizona Teachers Academy, which provides tuition scholarships to students pursuing teacher certification at Arizona’s three public universities and selected community colleges. Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College operates the largest teacher-preparation program in the state, and ASU is aiming to fund more than 1,000 undergraduate and master’s degree students pursuing degrees that lead to initial teacher certification.
Sun Devil 100 celebrates the achievements of Arizona State University alumni who own or lead successful, innovative businesses. This year, seven alumni from ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College were honored:
Yadira Flores, KOI Education
Daniel Gulchak, KOI Education
Jessica Irwin, S.E.E.K Arizona
Angel Jannasch-Pennell, KOI Education
Gene V. Glass is a research professor in the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Regents Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University. Having coined the term “meta-analysis,” Glass has made enormous contributions to education statistics, educational policy and the social sciences. His work — particularly, “Benefits of Psychotherapy” (1980), about psychotherapy outcome studies — is said to have changed psychology.
“Special education is an excellent field to get into,” said Jay Johnson, recruitment and retention specialist in the Arizona Department of Education. “Not only are there jobs available, but special education has real advantages for teachers. You get a range of ability levels for kids, so you get to really stretch yourself that way. There are all kinds of opportunities ... whether you want to work in elementary school or high school, in a self-contained classroom or another scenario like a pull-out classroom.
Linda Darling-Hammond is Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University and co-director of the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. Throughout her impressive career — including serving as education adviser to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign — Darling-Hammond has been heavily involved in efforts to redesign schools.
Brent Maddin is executive director of the Next Education Workforce initiative at ASU's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College.
On an unseasonably brisk mid-May afternoon in Phoenix, Arizona, nearly 100 people sat at tables playing with unusual baseball cards.
How much of what you learned in high school do you still use 20 years later? Probably not a lot.
But a study conducted by researchers at Arizona State University found that one thing former students at Mountain Pointe High School in Phoenix still use is what they learned in their physical education class.
A $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education is funding a major collaboration to improve education. The Consortium for Open Active Pathways will use technology to increase the availability of college-level educational materials. Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College is the lead unit in the consortium that partners ASU with three of America’s largest community college systems: the Maricopa Community Colleges in Phoenix, Miami Dade College (Florida) and Ivy Tech Community College (Indiana).