The course, EAD 866: Teaching in Post Secondary Education, taught by Dr. Ann Austin, Dr. John Dirkx, and Dr. Rhonda Egidio has been selected as Best in the Fully Online Course category for the 2010 AT&T Faculty Awards program. Libraries, Computing, and Technology in the Office of the Provost initiated this annual awards program to… Read More »
U.S. News rankings released: College still No. 1 in elementary and secondary education
For 16 years now, the College of Education has been ranked No. 1 in the nation for elementary and secondary education! The U.S. News & World Report’s 2011 edition of America’s Best Graduate Schools, which hits newstands April 27, also highlights the college’s capacity to produce high-level scholarship and top-notch graduates in several other disciplines.… Read More »
Greta McHaney-Trice receives Outstanding Alumni K-12 Teacher Award

Greta McHaney-Trice Greta McHaney-Trice, a teacher at Forest View Elementary School in the Lansing School District, has received the prestigious Outstanding Alumni K-12 Teacher Award from the Michigan State University College of Education Alumni Association. She will be honored for exemplary efforts to help all students achieve their potential during an Awards Reception on April… Read More »
Deborah Ball receives Distinguished Alumni Award

Deborah Loewenberg Ball Deborah Loewenberg Ball, dean of the School of Education at University of Michigan, has received the prestigious Distinguished Alumni Award from the Michigan State University College of Education Alumni Association. She will be honored for her influential efforts to transform mathematics teaching and to improve how the nation prepares teachers during an… Read More »
Kristin Phillips wins Gail P. Kelly dissertation award

Kristin Phillips, Assistant Professor in the Department of Teacher Education has been awarded the Gail P. Kelly Award for Outstanding Dissertation in Comparative Education in 2009. The Kelly Award is conferred on a doctoral dissertation that manifests academic excellence, originally, methodological, theoretical, and empirical rigor, and that addresses social justice and equity issues in an… Read More »
Annis N. Brown elected to serve as Chair-Elect for AERA Graduate Student Council
Annis N. Brown, a doctoral student in the Department of Teacher Education, was elected to serve as Chair-Elect for the Graduate Student Council (GSC) of the American Educational Research Association for 2009-2010. This election is an important honor for Annis and brings recognition to our institution as well. AERA is committed to enhancing the quality… Read More »
Kinesiology grad competing with U.S. Olympic bobsled team
Michigan State University kinesiology graduate Michelle Rzepka will compete in the Olympic bobsled competition again today in Vancouver after finishing in seventh position Tuesday. Rzepka, who received her bachelor’s degree from MSU in 2005, is the brakeman for teammate Shauna Rohbock, who won the Silver Medal in Torino. While at MSU, Rzepka was a Big… Read More »
AERA Honors EAD Professor Ann Austin for Outstanding Research Accomplishments
EAD Professor Ann Austin has been selected as an American Educational Research Association Fellow. The American Educational Research Association (AERA) announces the selection of 67 scholars to be AERA Fellows in recognition of their exceptional scientific or scholarly contributions to education research or significant contributions to the field through the development of research opportunities and… Read More »
NSF awards grant to Teresa Tatto and colleagues
Maria Teresa Tatto and her colleagues — Jack Schwille, Amita Chudgar, Mark Reckase, Sandra Crespo, Raven McCrory, and Tenko Raykor — have received a NSF grant to begin research on The First Five Years of Mathematics Teaching. The study investigates novice teachers’ (with 0-5 years experience) development of mathematical knowledge for teaching and the influence… Read More »