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Recent literacy, learning & leadership grad Stephanie Choi '17 is the sustainability coordinator at Smith College in the Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability. She works on student programming, including the Eco-Reps program, and supports student clubs and organizations, as well as individual...

What is pod learning? Professor Etta Kralovec was interviewed about the concept in this story from Arizona Public Media.

Arizona high school students will soon be able to take dual-enrollment University of Arizona-designed pre-calculus courses, thanks to a new program from our College of Education and Hispanic-Serving Institution Initiatives that aims to strengthen college-going resources in high schools. The program will partner with Arizona high schools whose student populations...

The college is excited to announce that Teaching, Learning & Sociocultural Professor Iliana Reyes has been named the college's new associate dean! Professor Reyes has been with the college for 18 years, having started as an assistant professor in 2002. She was promoted to full professor last year.

Professor Reyes received her master’s and doctoral degrees in developmental...

Associate Professor Jill Castek was named the Jewell M. Lewis Endowed Distinguished Professorship in Literacy. Lewis, for whom the professorship is named, devoted many years to supporting education in Arizona. She was especially passionate about reading, spending five years as the reading director of Coolidge Public Schools. She also was active in broadcast...

Alyce Sadongei, project coordinator for the American Indian Language Development Institute, recently spoke with ...

Professor Erin Turner and Department of Mathematics Associate Research Scientist Cynthia Anhalt were awarded a $600,000+ Discovery Research PreK-12 grant from the National Science Foundation ...

Alyce Sadongei, project coordinator for the American Indian Language Development Institute, recently spoke with Atlas Obscura about how museums across the country and world have historically covered sacred cultural items in dangerous chemicals for the purpose of preservation.

In response to COVID-19, Assistant Professor Monica Erbacher, Associate Professor of Practice Elizabeth Pope, and Assistant Vice Provost of HSI Initiatives Marla Franco were recently granted a National Science Foundation award to lead research that will benefit Hispanic Serving Institutions throughout the state of Arizona as campuses plan for re-...

To get some tips for surviving summer at home, This Is Tucson spoke with educational psychology doctoral student Rebecca Friesen, who also homeschools her three boys. "It can be very helpful to have a one-on-one with your child and ask 'What do you want to learn this summer? What skills do you want to gain?' And then start to develop a schedule from that."

This is Tucson also compiled a...