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Two College of Education faculty represented the Purdue Center for Rural Research, Education and Outreach at the National Forum to Advance Rural Education.

The College of Education honored first-year and second-year doctoral students who received prestigious graduate fellowships at a luncheon in Marriot Hall’s John Purdue Room.

Two new senior directors of development will join the Purdue for Life Foundation fundraising team in support of the College of Education, according to Phillip J. VanFossen, interim dean of the College.

Ofelia Castro Schepers’ new book helps teachers understand and address their students’ needs.

We are teaching young children in a moment of contradiction. Decades of literacy research demonstrate that abundant access to books is one of the strongest predictors of early reading development, vocabulary growth, and long-term academic success (Allington, 2014; Neuman & Celano, 2012). This body of research consistently shows that children who have frequent opportunities to read self-selected texts encounter more words, develop broader background knowledge, and read with greater fluency over time. In other words, access itself functions as an instructional condition, not a peripheral support.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded grants totaling over $3.2 million to four College of Education faculty members in August.