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At Brown University, students study education from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology, economics, history, political science, psychology, and sociology. The faculty — social scientists, historians, and field-based experts — teach a wide array of undergraduate courses that comprise the Education Studies Concentration, lead two graduate programs (Master of Arts in Teaching, and Urban Education Policy), and conduct research on important educational issues.

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Students with questions about Education courses or the Education Studies concentration should contact Luther Spoehr, Director of Undergraduate Studies.

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Education Department News

The Education Department is very pleased to announce that Maureen Sigler has accepted our offer to be Lecturer in the History/Social Studies MAT Program for a three-year term.  Currently Visiting Lecturer and Director of Social Studies/History Teacher Education at Brown, she has a M.Ed. from Harvard in Administration, Planning, and Social Philosophy (2003), and a BA from Trinity College (1999).  Urban teaching experience includes two years at DC Prep Academy, where she was a classroom teacher, a mentor teacher, and coordinator of the resident teacher program, and three years with Teach for America in Washington, D.C. Public Schools.  She was also Curriculum Coordinator for the New Teacher Project, based at Mercy College in New York City.

Also joining the Education Department; Mr. Dan Bisaccio as Lecturer in Education and director of the Science/Biology MAT Program. <click here for Bio>


Assistant Professor of Education and Human Development, Deborah Rivas-Drake, co-authored an article in the current issue of the The Chronicle of Higher Education entitled "Colleges Need to Recognize, and Serve, the 3 Kinds of Latino Students" with Margarita Mooney, assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. <click here for full article>


Profesor Cynthia Garcia Coll recognized in Hispanic magazine
Cynthia Garcia Coll, professor of education, psychology and pediatrics, was named one of the 100 most influential Hispanics in the United States in the October issue of Hispanic Business magazine. <click here for Brown Daily Herald article>

Brown University Announces Commitment to Urban Education and Providence Public Schools for Class of 2009.
10 Urban Education Fellows will receive full tuition support for 2008-09:
* 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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