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.
Education policy in the U.S. runs on data. Yet the amount and breadth of data available can outpace the ability of policymakers and administrators to digest it. This is particularly true in higher education administration, says Rebecca T. Barber.
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.
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.
What if education systems were doing more and thinking differently about preparing learners to thrive in the future?
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?
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.
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 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.
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.