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One of the college's retired faculty members, Armin Turechek, passed away this month. He was 93. Turechek was head of the rehabilitation counseling with the deaf program and supervised the interpreter training program in the 1970s and 80s.
He was a national leader in the field of deafness and an innovative administrator of programs for children and adults who qualified for deaf services. A natural advocate, Turechek supported and challenged his deaf students to push beyond boundaries and reach for their highest potential.
He was fond of widely extending invitations to visit him and his wife during summers in the cabin that he personally built in the White Mountains.
A memorial was held July 19.
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Gonzalez-Robles Receives AERA Minority Fellowship | |
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Graduate student Aura Gonzalez-Robles of Teaching, Learning & Sociocultural Studies was awarded the American Educational Research Association Minority Fellowship in education research. The selection committee was impressed with her scholarly achievements, the quality of her proposed research, and her potential to contribute to education research. All fellows will be featured in an upcoming issue of Educational Researcher. Find out more about AERA.
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Education E-News
July 2010
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 Taking the Lead!
Welcome to this special summer edition of Education E-News. We usually don't send out a summer issue, but we have exciting news about a new grant that will change the way we look at early childhood education. Read on. |
 Early Education Reform Gets a Much-Needed Boost
A new partnership between the UA College of Education and the Helios Education Foundation will change the way we prepare early childhood teachers by including family and community members as educators of future teachers. "Community and family will be the heart of the new curriculum," says Iliana Reyes, associate professor and codirector of the project. In the first year, with funding of $347,000, professors, teachers, and community members will begin a complete redesign of the current early childhood courses and language and literacy projects at the college. Here's the full story. |
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Cyberbullying Out of Control
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If you've seen the news lately, you know that cyberbullying is much more than a prank. This story on ABC's Good Morning America illustrates the seriousness of this type of bullying.
Disability & Psychoeducational Studies Associate Professor Sheri Bauman has researched bullying and cyberbulling for several years. She recently was awarded $50,000 from the National Science Foundation to hold an international meeting of cyberbullying scholars in Tucson this September. The meeting will be held at the Arizona Inn.
Contact Bauman for more information. |
 Are New Teaching Graduates Finding Jobs?
That's a question we hear more and more these days. NBC affiliate KVOA TV also wondered about those graduates and came to the College of Education's Director of Field Experiences Shirley Fisher for answers. Fisher | |
Disability & Psychoeducational Studies
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Thirty-seven states have some sort of mandate to address the needs of gifted and talented students in public schools. While many parents and teachers have mixed views about the tests used to identify talent and "giftedness," the programs are strongly supported by many parents who cannot afford to send their children to private schools. They are hard to overhaul, for various reasons. Professor June Maker's work is discussed in The Pitfalls in Identifying a Gifted Child in the opinion pages of the New York Times.Two summers ago, Professor Emeritus Larry Aleamoni was invited to evaluate the Department of Education at the Lebanese-American University (LAU) in Beirut, Lebanon. Since his parents were both from Lebanon, Aleamoni and his wife, Marjie, tried to locate any living relatives during their stay there. "We had friends, faculty, and administrators at LAU all trying to locate any known family members with only vague ideas of where my mother and father had lived in Lebanon. Unfortunately, we were not successful," says Aleamoni.
Marjie Aleamoni holds a photo of Larry Aleamoni's grandfather during a visit with long-lost family members in Lebanon (Larry Aleamoni is in the white shirt) | LAU invited him back the following summer to conduct an intensive five-day workshop for its faculty in research methods and statistics. "During this trip, my wife and I were more optimistic about finding some of my relatives as we now knew the name of my mother's village, Jebrayel Aaqar. The day after our arrival in Beirut, we met with the head of the Department of Education, Ahmad Oueini, and his wife, Katia. During that meeting, we discovered that Katia was from the same village as my mother and, within 10 minutes, she was able to locate my last living uncle, Ramez Moujalli, in the old Christian section of Beirut. The next day we went to Ramez's home. During our visit, Ramez showed us a picture of his father (my grandfather), Ibrahim." Aleamoni met many more relatives and adds, "Needless to say this was an overwhelming experience as I had never met any of these family members before!"
Educational Policy Studies & Practice
Moll | Professor Luis Moll, Assistant Professor Cecilia Rios-Aguilar, and graduate student Manuel Gonzalez Canche contributed to a major multi-institutional research project intended to evaluate structured English immersion and the experience of English learners in Arizona. Here's more.
Since 2007, ethnic studies programs across Arizona have faced opposition from politicians including Tom Horne, the state superintendent of public instruction. HB 2281, authored by Horne, seeks to limit TUSD's ability to offer ethnic studies programs.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signs HB 2281 | This controversial bill provided the focus for much of the 12th Annual Conference on Transformative Education, which took place this month at the University of Arizona. Associate Dean and Professor Jeffrey Milem was interviewed about the controversy. Watch the interview here. |
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Fall semester is just around the corner.
We'll see you then!
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