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Computerized Social Studies Game Leads to Higher Writing Scores, Greater Interest in Science
The Renzulli Academy for High Performing/Low Income Students in Hartford Receives Grant for Summer Enrichment Program
With a $250,000 grant from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, the Renzulli Academy in Hartford will establish a robust summer enrichment program for its high potential/low income students. Fourth-graders perform an experiment with the help of their teacher Freddie DeJesus at the Renzulli Gifted and Talented Academy in Hartford, Conn., in 2011. (Photo Credit: Peter […]
Neag and History Professors Collaborate on “Teaching History with Museums” Book
Museums provide students with opportunities and resources not available in the classroom. Through the physical participation of seeing, feeling, touching and overall experiencing the past, field trips to these sites and their corresponding lesson plans are crucial for successful learning in youth. UConn’s Alan Marcus, Ph.D., associate professor of curriculum and instruction in the Neag […]
UConn’s Neag School Ranked Among the Nation’s Best Schools of Education
The U.S. News & World Report released its rankings of Graduate Schools and the Neag School of Education continues to achieve top-ranking status as it rose in rankings to #32 in the nation. This ranking puts the Neag School as the #1 public graduate school of education in the Northeast and #22 among all public graduate schools of education […]
Provost Dr. Peter Nichols to Join Neag School Faculty
Peter J. Nichols, Ph.D., UConn’s provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs, has served in major academic leadership roles for the past 20 years. He is the University’s chief academic officer and is responsible for all academic programs, including the regional campuses, School of Law and schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine. Reporting to […]
Opening a Door Leads to Giving Back for One Alumnus
John Greene (MA ’67, Ph.D. ’70), a master’s student at UConn in the 1960s, was also teaching high school math at the time. One day he was walking down a hall on campus, where he saw the sign “Project Essay Grade” and he knocked on the door. Entering that door would change his course of […]
Second Edition Helps in Teaching Science to All Learners
Students are not all on the same playing field in the classroom. They come from different backgrounds, learn differently and therefore, especially when learning science, need teachers who support them through effective instructional approaches with culture as a starting point. This approach is the foundation of the second edition of Teaching Science to Every Child by Dr. […]
CAPSS/Neag Early Career Superintendent Institute an Invaluable Resource for Individual, School District Growth
New Connecticut Regional School District 14 Superintendent Jody Goeler credits the Advanced Leadership Development Institute for Early Career Superintendents at the Neag School of Education with giving him not just the tools, support and opportunities needed to better manage the practical, day-to-day aspects of his job, but also to tackle the unavoidable sticky—and inevitably unexpected—situations. “When you’re […]
No Clear Winner Yet in “Race to the Top”
Establishing “Innovation Funds” for community partnerships that enhance learning, creating professional development programs more aligned with federal education expectations, and establishing new frameworks for teacher evaluations are among the ways states awarded Race to the Top (RTT) grants have begun to used their share of the $4 billion given by the federal government in 2011 […]
Boldly Going into Middle School Science
Keith Sevigny, lover of science, got liftoff last summer for a team of 8th-grade students at Annie Fisher STEM Magnet School in Hartford. The boys landed their tiny science project on whether seeds will germinate in microgravity on the final mission of NASA’s Space Shuttle program in July. But the launching pad for Sevigny was Neag‘s […]