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The CU Boulder School of Education will host a public dialogue with Rick Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, on Thursday, March 16 from 4-5:30 p.m. in the Aspen Room of the University Memorial Center. Terrenda White, CU Boulder assistant professor of education, will lead...

CU Boulder was recently recognized by the Physics Teacher Education Coalition as one of only eight inductees nationwide into “The 5+ Club,” honoring institutions that have graduated five or more physics teachers in a given year. With six recent graduates, the School of Education joined select universities nationwide for the...

At its regular meeting on Feb. 16-17 at the Boulder campus, the University of Colorado Board of Regents voted 7 to 0 to approve a new professional graduate degree program in higher education in the CU Boulder School of Education. The program is designed to prepare students to work in...

Kathy and Manuel Escamilla are mainstays in the School of Education with a mutual affinity for education. From day one, the duo has devoted their careers to inclusive education with passion (and humor). Kathy graduated from CU Boulder in 1971 with a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and became a bilingual...

Meet Jenn and Dave Ciplet whose mutual interests in education and community engagement, as it seems, are the ties that bind them. Both Jenn and Dave work at CU Boulder and share an affiliation to CU Engage , housed in the School of Education. Jenn is the Director of Communications...

Research Associates and founders of A Queer Endeavor Bethy Leonardi and Sara Staley met at the School of Education in 2012 while pursuing their doctoral degrees. Both graduated in 2014 —Bethy earned a PhD in Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice, and Sara earned a PhD in Curriculum & Instruction, Literacy...

Doctoral students Astrid Sambolin Morales and Francisco Luis Torres were recently married! Francisco's field of study is Literacy and Astrid is a Graduate Research Assistant in her program, Educational Equity and Cultural Diversity. Their mutual love of education is the knot that binds them. Briefly describe how you met and...

What is the newly formed group, Education Deans for Justice and Equity? Dean Kathy Schultz was recently featured on BustED Pencils, a 30-minute online talk show hosted by Tim Slekar, dean of the School of Education at Edgewood College in Madison, Wis. The show explores public education and “hard facts...

The National Center for Research in Policy and Practice (NCRPP) has just released an interim report summarizing findings from the first year of a two-year study of the Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships in Education Research program, which is part of the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences . The grant...

Ninety Colorado educators will earn free or sharply discounted master’s degrees and specialized state endorsements through CU Boulder thanks to two $2.5 million grants. The support, comprising two unique-in-the-nation programs, is designed to better prepare teachers to work with students from diverse backgrounds, including those with disabilities. The programs, both...