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Associate Professor of Literacy Studies Bridget Dalton has been appointed for a three-year term to the US Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences Standing Review Panel for Reading, Writing, and Language Development. This peer-review panel reviews and evaluates research grant applications submitted to IES, and awards over 100 grants...

ABC 7News Denver consults Professor Kevin Welner and research conducted by the National Education Policy Center (NEPC) regarding the underreporting of crimes in schools. The 2012 NEPC research brief of Colorado Disciplinary Practices from 2008-2010, authored by PhD Candidates Ryan Pfleger and Kathryn Wiley , examines the reporting of disciplinary...

Ruth López, PhD Candidate in the Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice program, has been awarded a 2014-15 American Educational Reserach Association (AERA) Minority Dissertation Fellowship. The fellowship provides $12,000 and up to $1,000 for AERA conference travel so that fellows can develop their promising dissertation research with the broader goal...

Assistant Professor Andrew Maul of the Research and Evaluation Methodology (REM) program has been awarded a 2014 National Academy of Education (NAEd)/ Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship for his demonstrated record of research and promising research agenda. The fellowship provides $55,000 for a year of focus on his proposed project, "Improving the...

Sam Severance , a PhD student in Educational Psychology & Learning Sciences and in the university's Cognitive Science program, and Enrique (Henry) Suarez , a PhD student in Science Education, have been selected for Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in STEM Education. The Chancellor's Awards were established in 2009 to support...

Professor Leonard Baca has been selected as a 2014 recipient of the CU Alumni Association's Robert L. Stearns Award. Initiated in 1953 in honor of CU's sixth president, the Stearns Award recognizes members of the faculty and staff for extraordinary achievement or service in any one or combination of the...

Professor Emeritus David Berliner of Arizona State University and Professor Gene Glass of CU-Boulder recently published 50 Myths & Lies that Threaten America's Public Schools: The Real Crisis in Education . Each chapter offers research-based information to counter the most widespread and insidious assumptions about public education today. Three School...

By Sarah Kuta, Daily Camera Three middle school students dressed in masks to look like old men hobbled to the front of the stage at Old Main on the University of Colorado campus. With canes in hand and wearing sombreros, the three "old men" pretended to fall down while still...

Monday kicked off Colorado Literacy Week , led by Lt. Governor Joe Garcia each May to encourage continued reading through the summer and to learn about best practices. Throughout the state, Garcia is visiting early childhood through secondary programs, after-school programs, special education programs, home interventions, libraries, and book giveaways,...

This post was adapted from articles by Will Dunham for Reuters, Sarah Kuta for the Daily Camera , and Dennis Thompson for Healthday . School of Education alumnus Ben Domingue, PhD (REM, 2012) recently released a study conducted with CU Boulder Sociology Professor Jason Boardman, that has garnered a great...