An
"education professor" is a teacher who specializes in teaching others how to become teachers. They study various subjects related to education and help aspiring teachers develop the skills and knowledge needed to be effective educators.
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Twenty years ago, it was tough to identify a half - dozen
education professors at elite institutions who were sympathetic to the tenets of contemporary reform.
And,
most education professors tend to select theoretical courses that are in line with their training, that they are comfortable teaching, rather than teach what their students need.
About half of the 15 candidates in Harvard's new Teacher Fellows program are students of color, according to Katherine K. Merseth, a Harvard Graduate School
of Education professor who designed the program.
The authors address three criticisms of value - added (VA) measures of teacher effectiveness that Stanford
University education professor Linda Darling - Hammond and her colleagues present in a recent article: that VA estimates are inconsistent because they fluctuate over time; that teachers» value - added performance is skewed by student assignment, which is non-random; and that value - added ratings can't disentangle the many influences on student progress.
Our findings address the three main critiques of VA measures raised in a recent Phi Delta Kappan article by
Stanford education professor Linda Darling - Hammond and her colleagues.
The momentum and keeping track of small wins help keep up spirits because it's going to be a long and tough road before there are key shifts in the gun - control debate, said Meira Levinson, a Harvard University
education professor who focuses on youth empowerment and civic education.
States should «build alternative math pathways through the last two years of high school that are aligned with student interests and career plans,» says
Harvard Education Professor Robert Schwartz.
Previous recipients include Stanford School of
Education Professor Linda Darling - Hammond, Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, founders of KIPP charter schools, and Beverly Daniel Tatum, president of Spelman College in Atlanta.
A recent survey by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute identifies another way to improve the quality of education graduates: nearly three - quarters of
education professors from among 716 four - year universities and colleges told Fordham researchers that their programs need to do more to remove unsuitable candidates.
In the Los Angeles Unified School District, which has more than 700,000 students, just 39 percent of Latino students and 47 percent of African American students finished school, according to a Harvard University study on dropout rates in Los Angeles authored
by education professor Gary Orfield (now at the University of California at Los Angeles) and three others.
April Flood, an assistant
education professor in Illinois and mother of two, appreciated when her daughter's kindergarten teacher displayed a «giving tree» on her door and decorated it with Post-it notes describing items the class needed — CDs, baggies, and wiggly eyes for craft projects.
«They don't understand that they've alienated a lot of educators throughout the country with some of their attacks on teachers,» said New York University
education professor Pedro Noguera, who spoke at the SOS march.
But there has been pushback against the Office of Equity for what educators, including
UCLA education professor Pedro Noguera, view as a siloed approach to the needs of a diverse student body.
Harvard Graduate School of
Education Professor Howard Gardner has won the American Society for Training and Development's Lifetime Achievement in Workplace Learning and Performance award.
PARTNER UP T.D.I. would have never been a reality without the help of the University of Tampa and Dr. Patricia OGrady, a
special education professor at the college.
Or, as
education professors Richard Ingersoll and Henry May have argued, «minority students benefit from being taught by minority teachers, because minority teachers are likely to have «insider knowledge» due to similar life experiences and cultural backgrounds.»
Stanford University
education professor Martin Carnoy declares his intent to interject a «balanced perspective» in an empirical literature written «mainly by researchers who openly and actively support vouchers» and media that «report results from these analyses without necessary caveats and alternative views.»
As
Rutgers education professor Bruce Baker put it: «public policy permits a bad deal for the public — one that essentially -LSB-...] Read More»
The paper, by Harvard
education professor David Deming and University of California - Berkeley economist Christopher Walters, seeks to determine what is the most effective use of public subsidies to help more students graduate college.
This Online Class Wants to Help You Keep Your New Year's Resolutions The Atlantic, 12/31/13 «Harvard School of
Education professors Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey think we need to use a different approach to change.
As education professor Pedro Noguera has said, «We've developed an accountability system that holds those with the most power the least accountable.»
In this slender, readable volume, veteran educators Jane David (now head of the Bay Area Research Group) and Larry Cuban (
emeritus education professor at Stanford) conduct a breakneck tour of almost — but -LSB-...]
Data - Driven Teaching: Tools and Trends, a policy brief from The Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy developed under the supervision of Harvard Graduate School of
Education Professor Paul Reville, examines 10 key questions district and state policy makers can use in selecting data analysis programs and their use in urban districts.
Avoiding eye contact and arching her back are just two signs your baby may be feeling stressed out, says Cindy Brandon, an early
childhood education professor at Centennial College in Toronto.
The trip will offer an opportunity to become immersed in the teacher and leader preparation programs, with the first full day in Finland dedicated to learning from
higher education professors at the University of Helsinki.
Rote pencil - and - paper calculations don't guarantee success, says Lee V. Stiff, a
math education professor at North Carolina State University in Raleigh and president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Some young teachers find the intense, demanding charter experience more than they bargained for, suggested Berkeley
education professor Bruce Fuller, a study co-author.
Holy Cross
Education Professor Jack Schneider looks at potential reasons behind the decades - long PR conundrum of public schools: Polls routinely find that the school my child goes to rates an A or B while all the other schools in America rate a C or D.
«I don't see eliminating the transition at the high school level as important or beneficial as eliminating the transition at the middle school level,» said Martin R. West, an
assistant education professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a co-author of the study...
University of
Arkansas education professor Jay P. Greene has weighed in on the BIll and Melinda Gates Foundation's conclusions about its teacher evaluation study.
On January 6, a team of researchers, led by Harvard Graduate School of
Education Professor Thomas Kane and MIT Professor Joshua Angrist, released the results of a study of Boston's charter, pilot, and traditional public schools.
P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School Director Lynda Hayes and COE
science education Professor Rose Pringle receive $ 5 million from the National Science Foundation to transform how science is taught in Florida's middle schools.
«I think in many ways (Common Core is) a very good idea,» said UW - Madison associate
education professor Catherine Compton - Lilly, who has studied the language arts half of the standards (the other half is math) and described the Core as a set of benchmarks.
Ironically, the broad diversity argument in higher education — that it benefits everyone, including white students — has perhaps led to a decline in a focus on racial inequities, says Harvard
education professor Natasha Warikoo, and «maybe it's time to rethink this very shallow way we talk about affirmative action.»
Drawing on a study by Stanford
education professor Sean Reardon, Ladd says that the gap in reading achievement between students from families in the lowest and highest income deciles is larger for those born in 2001 than for those born in the early 1940s.
Ed School Offers Gen Ed Course Harvard Crimson, October 4, 2011 «Standing in front of the 50 students in her education reform course, Graduate School of
Education Professor Katherine K. Merseth told her students, «If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention'to the state of American education.»
Holy
Cross education professor Jack Schneider called the Times piece «toxic» in its use of test score data and form of presentation.
«We try to help kids understand they «ve got to take that step forward, to take more responsibility for their own development, «said Don Hellison, a University of Illinois at Chicago
physical education professor who developed a basketball program for children living in the Cabrini - Green public housing complex.
«It's counterproductive to have the old chancellor making significant staffing decisions before the new chancellor steps in the door,» said David Bloomfield, a Brooklyn College and CUNY Grad
Center education professor.
As
for education professors, our primary accomplishment as acolytes of pedagogical progressivism has been to change the rhetoric of educators, who have all come to talk like constructivists.
A new study authored by Harvard Graduate School of
Education Professor Susan Moore Johnson and a team of Ed School advanced doctoral students reveals that the leaders of the thousands of local teachers union affiliates who hold the greatest sway over the educational lives of public school teachers and students are focused on far more than the traditional union priorities of wages, hours, working conditions, and due process for their members.
Beyond that, University of
Virginia education professor Patricia Jennings, who is soon releasing a study on the topic, says stress from teachers trying to do too much is creating worrisome levels of teacher burnout with the most generous.