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Message from the Dean
We are on track to open a Principal Leadership Institute in June with a cohort of 25 candidates seeking master's degrees and administrative service credentials. |
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Lily Wong Fillmore Breaks New Ground in Work with Native Children in Alaska
The state of Alaska has adopted a high school exit exam similar to the one California plans to implement in 2004, but Alaska's timetable is several years ahead of California's. "Kids in Alaska who are now sophomores will take the test for the first time in 2000," said Professor Lily Wong Fillmore, who came up with some surprising findings when she recently studied how the test may impact children in rural, native villages. "Seniors have to pass the test by 2002 or receive a certificate of attendance, rather than a high school diploma." Educators in Alaska are predicting a failure rate as high as 90% in rural villages.
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PACE Gets New Direction and Funding
Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) has had major developments in its goals and its funding. Recently the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation announced a $900,000 grant that will support PACE's research efforts for the next three years.
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Bruce Fuller |
Robert Ruddell Retires after 37-Year Teaching Career at Berkeley
Robert (Bob) Ruddell has announced his retirement from the Graduate School of Education after a distinguished career of teaching and research that began in the era of the Free Speech Movement and extended into the new millennium. His work on early literacy and influential teachers have earned him the highest honors in his field--the International Reading Association's William S. Gray Citation of Merit for lifetime achievement, and election to the International Reading Hall of Fame.
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Robert Ruddell |
New Faculty: Patricia Baquedano-LópezThe School's newest faculty member is Assistant Professor Patricia Baquedano-López, who teaches in the area of Education, Language, Literacy, and Culture.
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Prentice Starkey Receives Major Grant for International Study of Children's Early Math Learning
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education faculty member Prentice Starkey and Institute of Human Development researcher Alice Klein have teamed up on one of the first of a new and unique series of grants designed to improve teaching and learning from preschool through twelfth grade.
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Prentice Starkey |
Professor Meets with All 200 Students in Lecture Class
Michael Ranney, an associate professor who is teaching Introduction to Cognitive Science, met personally with all 200 students in his large, undergraduate lecture class. "I want to get more of an idea of what the individuals in the class are like, so they're not just a face in the crowd," he said. "That way I don't feel so much like a talking head, either."
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Michael Ranney meeting with Julie Hwang, a student from his "Introduction to Cognitive Science" course |
Elyse Eidman-Aadahl: Working with Teachers in MongoliaElyse Eidman-Aadahl,
who teaches in the area of Language, Literacy, and Culture, has been spending
her free time for the last year and a half travelling to remote regions
of Mongolia, often by jeep, horse, or even camel.
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Camels are still a vital part of life on the Gobi Desert: Food, hides, and transportation. |
Alumna URVASHI SAHNI Wins Haas International Award
Urvashi Sahni has become the first alum of the School of Education to win the prestigious Haas International Award.
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School responds to Governor's Education InitiativesBerkeley's Graduate School of Education is working to help implement Governor Gray Davis's new legislation on education.
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HUNDREDS ATTEND Ninth Celebration of Children's LiteratureThe Graduate School of Education's ninth annual Celebration of Children's Literature returned to Tolman Hall on Cal Day, Saturday, April 15.
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In MemoriamGSE Mourns Death of Former Alumni Association President Marilyn Nye Ruth Galindo, B.A., Spanish, 1932; Teaching Credential, 1933
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Ekalaka! A Bear Educational Reunion by Dick Jones, Ed.D. '66The '60s at Berkeley were a turbulent and definitive time for many people. For seven educators, the '60s started them toward careers in educational leadership.
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UC Berkeley Ekalaka reunion at Port Townsend, WA. From Left to Right: Bob Sarvis, Dick Jones, Jerry Rider, Troy McKelvey, and Jack Martin. (Missing from photo: Hig Bailey, and Ray McGuire who had to rush to the airport.) |
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