Education
Ben Edmonds, Rasul Mowatt and Carwina Weng are the newest IU Bloomington members of the Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching (FACET), an interdisciplinary organization composed of more than 500 of Indiana University's best teachers.
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The Indiana University School of Education has named eight Indiana public school teachers as the Martha Lea and Bill Armstrong Teacher Educators for the 2013-14 school year. In earning the prestigious honor, these teachers have an opportunity over the next year to participate in professional development opportunities and work with IU faculty and students studying to be teachers.
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The U.S. Agency for International Development through Higher Education for Development has awarded Indiana University $4.2 million for a 2½-year project to promote women's access to and success in higher education in South Sudan. The grant is part of USAID's and HED's new women's leadership program targeted for South Sudan as well as Armenia, Paraguay and Rwanda.
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A recently published study ranks the science education faculty at the Indiana University School of Education as the second-most productive in research based on articles published in the first decade of the 21st century. The study "U.S. Institutional Research Productivity in Major Science Education Research Journals: Top 30 for 2000's" is published in the Journal of Education and Learning.
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Google has funded an associate professor in the Indiana University School of Education to develop a "Big Open Online Course," or BOOC. Daniel Hickey will offer a free course in September focused on educators and titled "Assessment Practices, Principles, and Policies" for as many as 500 students, funded by a $50,000 Google grant.
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How can high schools teach academic content and the critical skills students with and without disabilities need to navigate life beyond the classroom? Educators can find answers to this question and more in a new book by two Indiana University authors.
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