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The University of Pittsburgh’s School of Education honors the outstanding accomplishments of its graduates through its Alumni Awards program.  Criteria for these awards include a recognition of professional achievement, commitment to the continued success of the School of Education and the University of Pittsburgh, and public service to the advancement of the educational field.   If you would like to nominate a School of Education graduate for an Alumni Award in 2010, pleas...

On December 9th, Professor William F. Tate IV from Washington University in St. Louis will give a talk at the University of Pittsburgh on engineering quality academic and social opportunities for urban school students in the face of significant structural barriers, including organizational tendencies to treat learning as a discrete set of isolated events. Examples and models will be drawn from mathematics, science, engineering, and technology (METS) research and development. The talk will be he...

The Academy of Child and Youth Care Professionals awarded Karen VanderVen the LifeTime Achievement  Award.  Karen, a faculty member in the Department of Psychology in Education, has a focus on early childhood plan, professionalization of early childhood and child and youth work, leadership development, the developmental role of activity, practical strategies for activity programming,and intergenerational and life-span practices.  She recently published a b...

Taken from the Pitt Chronicle November 2, 2009 Louis M. Gomez , professor and Helen S. Faison Chair in Urban Education in the University of Pittsburgh School of Education, has been named one of only five senior partners for a new program of work at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The new program “will seek to tackle some of the most nettlesome problems affecting the educational success of a large number of our nation’s students,” according to the fo...

November 9, 2009 12:00-1:00pm WWPH 5604 Join members of the Academic Affairs Committee for a discussion of our current doctoral programs and how to differentiate them in ways that may better serve both future researchers and expert practitioners. The most recent issue of the Peabody Journal of Education focuses explicitly on the Educational Doctorate and makes the case that Ed.D. needs to be constructed so that it is the "degree of choice for education practitioners" (Guthrie, 2009...