Media Relations
Friday,
April 9,
2004
Curriculum and Instruction Department
Home Page:
http://education.indiana.edu/~edci/
Contact Information:
Wright Education Building
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Room 3140
201 N. Rose Ave.
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-1006
United States
812-856-8100
812-856-8116 (fax)
curric@indiana.edu
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The latest results for fourth and eighth grade math and reading from the U.S. Department of Education's National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test indicate small but significant gains, according to Peter Kloosterman, the Martha Lea and Bill Armstrong Chair for Teacher Education and a professor of mathematics education at Indiana University.
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Two faculty members from the Indiana University School of Education were selected by the U.S. State Department and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board for Fulbright Specialist awards. Both professors are consulting in countries hoping to further develop higher education after a tumultuous history.
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The National Council for the Social Studies has awarded Marilynne Boyle-Baise, professor of curriculum and instruction, with its 2011 Jean Dresden Grambs Career Research in Social Studies Award.
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A group of 50 teachers -- 25 each from Turkey and Armenia -- are concluding six weeks on the Indiana University Bloomington campus as part of a U.S. Embassy-sponsored program to help the teachers learn new techniques for the classroom and new ideas for diplomacy.
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The U.S. State Department has awarded The Center for Social Studies and International Education (CSSIE) at Indiana University nearly $3.5 million to develop and implement a master's degree in English language teaching at Kabul Education University in Afghanistan.
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More than 200 educators are participating in the third annual collaboration between Indiana University and a southern Indiana coalition of business, education and community leaders to spread project-based learning (PBL) principles to area schools. "The PBL Academy" is holding a week-long session at Columbus Signature Academy New Tech High School following sessions on the IU Bloomington campus.
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