Monthly Archives: August 2009

“Obama Effect” Strongly Influences Public Attitudes on Controversial Education Topics According to Survey Coauthored by Martin West

By News editor 08/31/2009 12:40 pm | Add a Comment

President Barack Obama has the potential to be an extremely influential opinionmaker on controversial education policy issues according to a new survey. Read More…

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The Future of Learning Explored at PPE Institute

By Jill Anderson 08/28/2009 11:23 am | 3 Comments

What exactly will the future of learning look like? That was the question on the minds of the 150 participants of the Programs in Professional Education’s (PPE) first Future of Learning institute held in August. Read More…

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Ed School Welcomes Students to Campus

By Jill Anderson 08/28/2009 10:31 am | 1 Comment

HGSE’s incoming students arrived on Appian Way this week to begin their weeklong orientation and kick off the new school year. Read More…

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Assistant Professor Tina Grotzer Receives CAREER award

By News editor 08/19/2009 03:58 pm | Add a Comment

Assistant Professor Tina Grotzer was recently given a five-year CAREER award by the National Science Foundation, which will allow her to study how children’s complex causal reasoning shifts over time and with different learning supports. Read More…

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Professor Paul Harris Wins Preyer Award

By News editor 08/19/2009 01:06 pm | Add a Comment

Professor Paul Harris won the 2009 William Thierry Preyer Award for Excellence in Research on Human Development this week from the European Society for Developmental Psychology at the Mykolas Romeris University Vilnius in Lithuania. Read More…

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Educators Find Strength in Numbers at Project Zero Classroom

By Jill Anderson 08/14/2009 02:28 pm | 4 Comments

For dozens of educators attending the Project Zero Classroom (PZC) last week from New Mexico and Indiana, it was a chance to add more tools to their education toolkit and to work as a team on creating a vision for the future of their schools. Read More…

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Charter Schools: Practices for High Performance/PPE

Educators Focus on Charter Schools at PPE Institute

By Jill Anderson 08/03/2009 12:03 pm | 2 Comments

As charter schools come to the fore in the national education debate, 69 charter school educators attended the Ed School’s Programs in Professional Education institute, Charter Schools: Practices for High Performance, with the goal of developing skills and strategies to build capacity and improve student outcomes. Read More…

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