Department Undergraduate Group Social
Want to see the Education Department sponsor an event important to you? Meet Education Concentrators who share your interests? Discuss your ideas for the department this year? Eat Free & Tasty Food?
Come to the 1st Education DUG meeting of the semester and learn more about how you could get involved with the ED DUG!
- What:
- ED DUG Social
- When:
- Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 from 6pm-8pm
- Where:
- Education Department (Barus Hall) Student Study Lounge
Dinner from Pizza Pie-er will be served!
Center for the Study of Human Development Presents Dr. Howard Chudacoff
The Mittleman Family Directorship in conjunction with the Education Department at Brown University are proud to present the inaugural lecture of the Center for Human Development's Annual Colloquium Series. Join us Thursday, September 25th in Dining Rooms 8 & 9 (Sharpe Refectory), beginning at noon for a talk with Dr. Howard Chudacoff. He will be speaking on The History of Children's Play in the U.S.: Change and Continuity. We look forward to seeing you!
Representatives from the
Master in Urban Education Policy (UEP) and
Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Programs will be at the
Idealist Graduate Degree Fairs for the Public Good in the following cities
this fall:
- Chicago, October 20th
- New Orleans, October 30th
- Atlanta, November 3rd
Also, join us at the:
- Hamilton College Graduate School Fair, on October 6th
- UNH Graduate and Professional School Fair, on October 9th
- Providence College, General Career and Graduate School Fair, on October 15th
- Atlanta University Center Consortium, Graduate/Professional School Information & Recruitment Day, on October 15th
- Graduate and Professional Schools Information Day 2008 at University of Massachusetts Amherst, on October 29th
- Graduate & Professional School Fair at Princeton University, on November 7th
Additional information concerning the Idealist Graduate Fairs can be found at http://www.idealist.org/.
We look forward to meeting you!
If state education agencies want to become more effective catalysts for school improvement, they need to develop "a shared focus, a common language, and greater coherence" among themselves, federal policymakers, school-district leaders, local school boards, and individual schools. That was one of the observations to emerge from a symposium last summer under the auspices of the Education Alliance and the Urban Education Policy program, both at Brown University. Now, an 80-page report of the two-day event, which brought together some 50 education leaders, has been made available online. Says the report's introduction: "There is a growing body of research, confirmed by our own practical experience working with states and districts across the eastern seaboard, that the system of public education is fragmented and lacks cohesiveness. There is no entity to 'blame' for this fragmentation. The fact that the fragmentation exists suggests that there is an opportunity to dramatically improve the system of public education by fostering coherence and aligning structures and processes within and across levels of the system."
http://www.alliance.brown.edu/pubs/csrqi/symposium.pdf
The Education Department's Teacher Education Program welcomes two new members this fall: Maureen Sigler,
Lecturer in Education, will direct the
History/Social Studies MAT Program, and
Daniel Bisaccio will direct th
e Science / Biology MAT Program. Ms. Sigler, who served as Interim Director of the History/Social Studies Program last year, has an M.Ed. from Harvard in Administration, Planning, and Social Philosophy and a B.A. from Trinity College. She taught for two years at D.C. Prep Academy and three years as a Teach for America Volunteer in the Washington, D.C., public schools, and was Curriculum Coordinator for the New Teacher Project at Mercy College in New York City.
Mr. Bisaccio served as Math/Science/Technology Division head at Souhegan High School in Amherst, New Hampshire, where he also taught biology, tropical ecology, and a seminar, Conservation biology and Literature. He has worked extensively in professional development for teachers, and his teaching methods and research have been featured in several books, on National Public Radio, and an CBS Television special. He is a member of the Smithsonian Institution's Caribbean Biodiversity Research Steering Committee.
Brown University Announces Commitment to Urban Education and Providence Public Schools for Class of 2010.
10 Urban Education Fellows will receive full tuition support for 2009-10:
* 8 Fellowships awarded to students in the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Program.
* 2 Fellowships awarded to students in the Master of Arts in Urban Education Policy (UEP) Program.
* Fellows commit to serve Providence-area urban schools for 3 years upon
graduation in exchange for loan forgiveness.
These commitments are inspired in part by the report to the University’s Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice.
Click here to view the December 2007 Education Studies Concentration Newsletter. This newsletter is an effort to build a network of graduates, post-graduates, current concentrators and all those working and studying in the Education Department at Brown while tracking the progress of our graduates in the field. The last (first) newsletter was created a year ago, and this year it is even more full of inspiring achievements by those students featured last year and who continue to contribute.
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Brown Bag Lunch Talk with Kevin Gee, Adjunct Lecturer
The Rhode Island Board of Regents for Elementary and Secondary Education
