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‘Collaborative, motivated people’: College honors faculty, staff, students in spring awards ceremony

The College of Education held its annual Faculty, Staff, and Student Awards and Recognition Ceremony on April 18, 2025.  “We wish to again congratulate these winners and the other winners of department and university awards this year,” said Phillip J. VanFossen,...

May 5, 2025

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College hosts Global Engagement Lunch & Learn with visiting German scholars

The Purdue University College of Education is collaborating with Leibniz University Hannover’s School of Education in cross-disciplinary and transcultural perspectives in special education, literacy and language education, and social studies education.

April 28, 2025

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Duarte accepted to JHU’s new ICQCM cohort

The National Science Foundation Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, and Mixed Methodologies at Johns Hopkins University named Bryan J. Duarte as a member of the sixth 2025 William T. Grant Foundation Advanced Quantitative and Computational Scholars Cohort.

April 17, 2025

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3 College of Education faculty promoted by trustees

The Purdue University Board of Trustees approved faculty promotions, including three College of Education faculty members

April 9, 2025

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Undergrad researchers place at AGSERS exhibition

Each year the Graduate Student Education Council (GSEC) hosts its Annual Graduate Student Education Research Symposium (AGSERS). The 2025 event took place on March 7 in the Krach Leadership Building.

April 4, 2025

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Morphological Awareness: An avenue for improving vocabulary, word recognition, spelling and reading comprehension

Learning requires the integration of many skills, with language development being a crucial foundational aspect. Language development across five domains-phonology (the sounds within a language), morphology (word structure/formation), semantics (word meaning), syntax (sentence structure/grammar), and pragmatics (use in varying contexts)-unequivocally supports the acquisition of reading and writing skills. Specifically, morphological knowledge is vital for improving vocabulary, word recognition, spelling and reading comprehension.  This practice brief provides an overview of morphological awareness and derived words, provides a rationale for teaching morphological awareness, and instructional strategies supported by science.

April 2, 2025

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