College of Education to receive $3.5 million for Reading Recovery program
 Georgia State University's Reading Recovery Training Center in the College of Education will receive $3.6 million over the next five years to improve literacy skills among struggling first graders in underperforming schools.
Georgia State is one of 15 partners with Ohio State University that was awarded a portion of a $54 million "Investing in Innovation" federal grant, announced by the U.S. Department of Education in late September.
The five-year project will focus on improving literacy among struggling first-grade students in underperforming schools, rural schools or those with high populations of English Language Learners. The grant will support training an additional 250 teachers at Georgia State, as well as 3,750 teachers nationwide. "The grant provides the resources to train more teachers," said Susan Duncan, director of the Reading Recovery Training Center. "Having more highly qualified teachers will decrease the number of children experiencing literacy failure and the cost of that failure to society." Reading Recovery is a national intervention program administered at regional universities throughout the country. The goal is to help bring students up to grade level with their peers in 12 to 20 weeks. As part of the grant, Georgia State will provide full-time professional and academic preparation for new teacher leaders and support training for teachers at existing or new Reading Recovery sites. GSU will also provide ongoing support and professional development for teachers and teacher leaders in scale-up schools. To read the entire story, click here.
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Upcoming Events in the College of Education
Research Wednesdays Speaker Series
October 27, 2010
12 noon
College of Education, Room 1030
30 Pryor Street
Atlanta, GA 30303
Presenter: Michael Feuer
Topic: "The role of transformational science in meeting the challenges to university-based teacher education"
Michael Feuer is the dean of the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at George Washington University. He also has held several positions at the National Research Council of the National Academies and served as a senior analyst and project director at the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment. He received a B.A. in English literature from Queens College of the City University of New York, an M.A. in public management from the Wharton School and a Ph.D. in public policy analysis from the University of Pennsylvania. He has been published in numerous academic journals and has had many reviews and articles in newspapers and magazines in Washington, Philadelphia and New York.
Research Wednesdays is held every Wednesday of the month. An RSVP is required to attend this event. To confirm your attendance, please contact Erin Whitney in the COE's Educational Research Bureau at (404) 413-8090 or ewhitney@gsu.edu.
For more information on Feuer and the college's Research Wednesdays Speaker Series, click here.
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