News: January - March 2013
- The College’s Electronic Presence
- Message from Dean Monk in the Winter 2013 Connections regarding the College of Education and its electronic presence.
- Recent Faculty Research - Compiled January 2013
- Presentations, publications, grants, and proposals
- Workforce Ed Students Recognized at Professional Conference
- Penn State Workforce Education students were recognized in February at the Academy of Human Resource Development Conference in Arlington, Virginia.
- Eleven Students Receive Research Grants
- The Dean's Office has awarded RIG awards to 11 students.
- Probing Question: Can We Reduce the Risk of School Shootings?
- Two College of Education professors explore answers to the question: Is it possible to reduce the risk of school shootings?
- Research Shows Rural Community Institutions Affect Immigrants' Receptivity
- A College of Education professor and research associate recently published research that revealed four constellations of factors that influence receptivity toward immigrants in rural Pennsylvania.
- School Choice Policies can Relieve or Exacerbate Segregation
- College of Education Assistant Professor Erica Frankenberg co-authored a book that examines the effect that school choice and charter schools has on segregation.
- College of Education Rankings
- 2014 Rankings of graduate programs in the College of Education
- Alumni Award Winner Continues to Actively Engage Students
- Dr. Rebecca West Burns, a 2013 Alumni Achievement Award winner, is a life-long learner who works to engage her students actively in the classroom and online.
- March Madness Comes to the College of Education
- A challenge, titled the March Madness Big Ten Facebook Rivalry Challenge, has been issued to the Big 10 colleges of education to acquire the most likes on Facebook between March 15 and April 5.
- Reading Camp for Elementary Students Coming this Summer
- The College of Education is offering the Penn State Reading Camp for elementary school students from July 8 through August 1.
- Technology Helps Students Understand Reasoning Behind Math
- Kathleen Heid explains how current technology, when applied correctly in the classroom, can help students better understand mathematics, learn it more efficiently, and use it to become real-world problem solvers.
- B1G March Madness Facebook Challenge Update
- The College of Education is working to overcome its rivals in this heated battle.
- Showing Their Work: College of Ed Graduate Students Participate in the Graduate Exhibition
- Four graduate students from the College of Education shared their work in the poster portion of the Annual Graduate Exhibition on March 24 in the HUB-Robeson Center at University Park.
- Exploring Lifelong Learning Through Technology
- Chris Gamrat, a doctoral candidate in Learning, Design, and Technology in the Penn State College of Education, has been awarded a $50,000 Center for Online Innovation in Learning (COIL) Research Initiation Grant (RIG) to develop a lifelong learning system for Penn State.
