COLUMBIA, Mo. – University of Missouri System Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs Bob Schwartz awarded the second of ten UM System President’s Awards to be presented to faculty in 2017 to University of Missouri-Columbia Professor of Literacy Studies Betsy Baker. Schwartz—accompanied by UM System Interim Chief of Staff David Russell and MU Interim Vice […]
Check out the program to read the stories of our individual award winners.More photos of the event are available here.
Two new studies from ESCP’s Francis Huang have determined that differences in misbehavior and negative attitudes cannot explain why black students are suspended at higher rates.
Researchers at the University of Missouri have found that teacher ratings of parental involvement early in a child’s academic career can accurately predict the child’s academic and social success.
Nianbo Dong, an assistant professor in the MU College of Education, has received a significant National Science Foundation (NSF) Award to support his research on the factors that account for differences in the effects of professional development for educators.
It is estimated that in U.S. public K-12 schools, one million children do not have legal immigration status, and another 4.5 million children have at least one undocumented parent.
The entire Columbia community mourned the Aug. 2015 death of Sherman Brown, Jr., and the seniors in Special Education (SPED) were no different. As his obituary noted, among his many community-oriented and business efforts, Brown often mentored at-risk youth and used his infectious, generous, and larger-than-life personality to make an impact on their lives. The […]
The University of Missouri’s online master of education degree programs are among the best in the nation, and the highest ranked in Missouri, according to U.S. News & World Report 2017 Best Online Programs Rankings. The top 25 percent ranking adds yet another distinction to prospective students’ list of reasons to choose Mizzou for an […]
Schools should refocus efforts to help these children develop social skills to combat bullying in more positive ways
On average, children who had finished a year of preschool had alphabet recognition skills that were more than 85 percent higher compared to those who had just begun the same program.