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This week Hawkley Pusey (BA English Education, '22) started his first official day of teaching as a seventh- and eighth-grade English teacher - his "dream job".

LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The county's top teachers, recently named Golden Apple Award winners by the Greater Lafayette Commerce, aren't only aiming for good students. They hope their work helps shape good people. One winner said her students leave a lasting...

Thomas Jefferson believed firmly that “an educated citizenry is a vital requisite” for a functioning democracy. A new project headed by Purdue University researchers seeks to provide teachers with learning strategies and professional development opportunities to nurture citizen-engineers and provide...

The Associated Press quoted Jennifer Barce, assistant dean for teacher education at the College of Education, saying the advice she gives student teachers preparing for their first day in the classroom works for kindergarteners too: “Be safe, healthy, fed and well-rested.” Fox News, Wane 15, the Indianapolis Star and a host of national outlets picked up the story because it’s good advice for parents, teachers and students.

Over two hundred 5th-12th grade students went to “college” at Purdue this summer - at Summer Residential Camps (SRES) held by Purdue Education’s Gifted Education Research and Resource Institute (GER²I), that is. For the first summer since 2019 students came...

Purdue Athletics produced 90 Academic All-Big Ten spring honorees for the second year in a row and 72 student-athletes earned Big Ten Distinguished Scholar recognition - including four College of Education student-athletes. To be eligible for Academic All-Big Ten, student-athletes must...