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In This Issue
Show Affection for Education
Come to Cooper
Crisis or Opportunity?
UA Celebrates 125 years!
In the Netherlands
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Teaching, Learning  & Sociocultural Studies Professor Walter Doyle served on an international panel to evaluate
the quality and impact of six teacher-education research institutes at
universities in the Netherlands. The panel met in Utrecht. 
 
Doyle presented work he conducts with Dennis Rosemartin, a student and graduate associate in TLS, entitled "The Teacher and the Curriculum: From Document to
Performance."
 
And on
 the Capitol
 
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Doyle is also in the news for coauthoring an article on how to improve school discipline in the
just-released, special issue of the
Educational Researcher
 
A Capitol Hill briefing, New Strategies for Keeping Schools Safe, will report on the research presented in the journal. The issue is devoted to school safety, including
violence, bullying,
and the harmful consequences of school environments that are unsafe or disruptive, especially for minority students.
 
Choice Journal Award
charlene kampfe
Every year, Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries  publishes a
list of outstanding academic titles that were reviewed during the previous
year. This list reflects the best in scholarly titles and brings with it the recognition of the academic library community.
 
It contains approximately 10 percent of some
7,000 works reviewed in Choice each year. Associate Professor Charlene Kampfe of Disability & Psychoeducational Studies received "choice" recognition for two chapters she wrote and cowrote in Disabilities: Insights from Across Fields and Around the World. 

Congratulations,
Charlene!
 
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February 2010
 

valentine heartsHave a Heart for Education!
 
By the middle of the 18th century, it was common for friends and sweethearts in all social classes to exchange small tokens of affection or handwritten notes on Valentine's Day.
 
Americans probably began exchanging handmade valentines in the early 1700s. Soon, ready-made cards were an easy way for people to express their emotions in a time when direct expression of one's feelings was discouraged.
 
According to the Greeting Card Association, an estimated one billion valentine cards are sent each year, making Valentine's Day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year. (About 2.6 billion cards are sent for Christmas.)

This year, let's have a heart for education. There are so many ways to give to education, and they don't all include money. (Caveat: We certainly never discourage monetary gifts!) Go to our site at www.coe.arizona.edu to see how you can become more involved with education.
 
Hurry on Down: You're Invited to a Birthday Party!
 
Come celebrate the 45th birthday of the picturesque Cooper Center for Environmental Learning -- a desert oasis known to many as Camp Cooper. The center, 5403 W. Trails End Road, is marking the event with an open house for educators, families, and desert lovers on Saturday, March 27, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 
 
"Everyone is invited, and visitors will get to enjoy experiences with hawks, falcons, and other desert animals, composting, solar power, and water harvesting," said Mike Mayer, director of the center. "We'll even have fruit smoothies, mixed by a bike-powered blender, a UA School of Theatre Arts performance, and, of course, birthday cake."
 
Tours also will be available, along with special raffles, giveaways, and participation in educational activities offered by the Cooper Center.
 
Located in the foothills of the Tucson Mountains, the center is a partnership between the University of Arizona College of Education and Tucson Unified School District. The facility is available for use by all schools districts and organizations in Southern Arizona.
 
For more information, contact Mike Mayer or Colin Waite at 520-743-7422 or [email protected].
 
Deans Marx and RuizCrisis or Opportunity? 
 
Now you can hear what business, political, and educational leaders have to say about education and the new economy. Higher Education and the New Economy: Crisis or Opportunity is a colloquium sponsored by our Center for the Study of Higher Education.

About 80 people attended the first session on January 28, when Dean Marx and College of Science Dean Joaquin Ruiz spoke about the financial challenges the nation's education system faces. Both emphasized that practices must change if the nation's institutions are to be economically sustainable while staying true to their core missions. "We have to figure out how to move forward," Marx said. "We need to look through the front of the windshield of our vehicle rather than in the rearview mirror." 
 
All sessions are on Thursdays from 12:30-1:45 p.m. For the speaker schedule and locations, or to listen to past sessions, go to www.coe.arizona.edu/epsp/hed/neweconomy. You also can participate in the colloquium blog.
 
Upcoming speakers include UA President Robert Shelton, Former Arizona Senate President Tim Bee,  Pima Community College Chancellor Roy Flores, Senator Paula Aboud, and Arizona State University President Michael Crow.
 
 
Silver & Sage Anniversary

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The University of Arizona is celebrating its 125th anniversary, and you're invited to the Kickoff Celebration on Tuesday, March 2, at noon!
 
How many parties do you go to where dancers commemorate 125 years of dance -- from boogie woogie to the twist to disco?!!? And where might you find a cake so big that it's in the shape of Old Main? (There's no guarantee on that one -- the logistics are still being worked out -- but count on it being a giant cake, whatever it may be!) The Pep Band also will be on hand to make sure you're in the party spirit.
 
By the way, the anniversary celebration, which will continue through Homecoming in October, is called Silver & Sage to honor the UA's original school colors. You thought they were red and blue? Think again. The UA's first school colors were sage green and silver. The sage was in reference to the indigenous sage bush, and silver symbolized the state's mining industries.
 
See you at the Silver & Sage Kickoff, and bring your friends!
 

That's our news. We'll be back in touch in March.  

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