Neag School of Education

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Neag Study: School Psychologists Can Play Key Role in Reducing Obesity, Raising Scores

The link between students' weight and their academic outcomes is the focus of a study by researchers in the Neag School of Education.

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On the Syllabus This Semester: Vampires

Assistant professor Pam Bedore teaches an English class on vampire fiction as a literary genre.

Michael Coyne, associate professor of educational psychology, reads with a group of first, second and third graders at the Windham Center School on Oct. 11, 2012. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

UConn Team Leads the Way on Intensive Early Reading Initiative

As part of the new Connecticut Education Reform Law, the Neag School of Education directs a $1.77 million program aimed at narrowing the reading achievement gap.

Retired Educator Pledges Estate to Endow Scholarship Fund

As a biology teacher and department head for E.O. Smith High School in Storrs, Jack Cohen helped educate young people for most of his life. Retired in 1989 after 31 years, Cohen still believes deeply in the value of education and has decided to support it even after he is gone.  Cohen has pledged his considerable estate […]

UConn Health Center Awarded Grant to Establish Early Childhood Personnel Center

The U.S. Department of Education also awarded the Health Center a leadership grant for doctoral students.

Education policy expert Jonathan Plucker is one of the nationally prominent scholars attracted to the University by an ambitious new faculty hiring plan.

For Education Policy Expert Plucker, UConn Move is Homecoming

Jonathan Plucker is one of the nationally prominent scholars attracted to the University by an ambitious new faculty hiring plan.

John Settlage, associate professor of curriculum and instruction at the Neag School of Education on July 26, 2012. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Study to Explore How Certain Schools Excel in Science

The results could change the way science is taught nationwide.

UConn’s Korey Stringer Institute Fighting to Keep High School Athletes Safe

The Korey Stringer Institute is on a mission to protect high school athletes around the country from heat stroke and other serious illness and injury.

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Learning to Teach Adult Students

The Neag School’s adult learning program helps professionals better educate other adults.

Christine Reardon in her office at the Torrington campus with Chinese Characters and books about East Asia. (Cindy Weiss/UConn Photo)

Tokyo to Torrington: Asian Studies in Connecticut’s Northwest Corner

A historian at the Torrington campus is leading a public discussion of Japanese culture this summer as part of her focus on the Far East.