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Meet Our Newest Alumni: Gholnecsar Muhammad
May 14, 2013
Gholnecsar Muhammad, PhD Curriculum and Instruction in Literacy, Language and Culture ’13, defined her time at the College of Education by focusing on the overlooked.
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Tozer: Focus on Creating High Quality Principals
May 06, 2013
Are quality urban principals a gift from above? The Center for Urban Education Leadership director Steve Tozer, PhD, thinks not.
At the “For Principals Only” workshop at the 7th annual Coalition of Schools Educating Boys of Color Conference, Tozer opened the workshop arguing the knowledge behind producing quality urban principals is in place, but the steps of execution remain lacking.
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College Hosts Disabilities Transition Conference
May 02, 2013
The College of Education’s Lisa Cushing jokes that Illinois is the “51st state and failing” in transitioning students with disabilities from school to adulthood.
There may be nowhere to go but up, but the College’s Department of Special Education is ensuring the state’s rise is a rapid one with the first GET SET conference on May 18. The conference, focusing on interagency collaboration to enhance post-secondary outcomes for students with disabilities in Chicagoland, is part of a federally-funded grant project at the College. Read More...