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The Teacher of the Year will be announced in late October and is chosen by a committee composed of a variety of individuals from the education community. The recipient becomes the Colorado nominee for National Teacher of the Year honors and serves as a teaching ambassador to communities and organizations...

Inside the Academy: Gene Glass (3:09) Gene Glass is selected to receive the Horace Mann League's "Outstanding Public Educator" award for 2016. He will be honored at the Annual Meeting of the Horace Mann League on Friday, February 12, 2016 in in Phoenix, Arizona. Glass is a Research Professor in...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded separate grants of $2.5 million to the University of Colorado Boulder and $1.1 million to the University of Colorado Denver to expand and study the campuses’ Learning Assistant Program. The program is aimed at increasing student engagement and retention in science, technology, engineering...

The University of Colorado Boulder today made the Top 25 LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges and Universities list issued by Campus Pride , a leading nonprofit national educational organization for LGBTQ and ally students and campus groups. CU Boulder is the only Colorado campus that made the list, which includes other prestigious universities...

Devin Rourke helps fellow teachers, Tammy Hearty and Lori Cairns-Alspaugh to program the scientific instruments for a weather balloon during a breakout session lead by SparkFun Electronics. In preparation for the new school year, School of Education alumni Devin Rourke, MA (2015), Erin Greenwood, MA (2005), Steve Wozniak, MA (2000),...

Rosemary Harris Lytle, the NAACP President for Colorado, Montana and Wyoming recently invited Josh Prudhomme , PhD candidate in Educational Foundations, Policy & Practice (EFPP), to lead a discussion on the opportunity gap at the states' quarterly conference. PhD Alumnus and CSU Assistant Professor Dr. Vincent Basile (Science Ed, 2015)...

Authors Alex Molnar and Faith Boninger of the National Education Policy Center (NEPC) recently released, " Sold Out: How Marketing in School Threatens Children's Well-Being and Undermines their Education." This book examines the threats school commercialism poses to children's psychological health, physical health, and the integrity of their education: "If...

By Valerie Strauss - The Washington Post Here is the second part of an examination of U.S. News & World Report’s annual ranking of high schools. It was written by Kevin Welner , director of the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado Boulder. In the previous post...

In Colorado, close to 90 percent of teachers are white, compared to just 57 percent of the student population. While a handful of programs across the state have sprung up to address that discrepancy , one academic thinks more can and should be done. Terrenda White , an assistant professor...

In this newly released short video, “Stand with Queer Youth,” authors and organizers from the 2015 Queer Young Adult Literature Conference reflect on how literature can be means to positively impact the understandings and experiences of queer youth in schools. The conference was organized by the University of Colorado Boulder’s...