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Purdue University Office of Engagement is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Jason Ware as the new Office of Engagement Fellow.

A fundamental aspect of learning to read is mastering the ABCs. This includes recognizing the letter names and their corresponding sounds. In some classrooms, the focus is on memorizing each letter name and sound, with equal attention to each letter. Researchers have demonstrated that children’s letter learning is influenced by many factors.  Some of these may be obvious, but others are less so. Understanding how letter learning takes place is practically useful as parents and teachers impart this critical skill to their children (McBride, in press).

The College honored 168 future teachers graduating this May from Purdue. Held in Stewart Center’s Loeb Playhouse, the Spring 2025 pinning was the largest such event to date.

Purdue University’s Teacher Education Program inducted 12 outstanding students into its chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, the International Honor Society in Education, during a formal ceremony on April 21, 2025.

“We need to understand what sort of guardrails we need put in place, both in terms of ethics of the algorithms and in terms of displacement of people’s jobs and careers,” said Bill Watson in The New York TImes about AI.

The Council for Exceptional Children’s Division of Visual and Performing Arts Education named Jasmine Begeske the 2025 Arts Educator of the Year.