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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...

Building a more diverse teacher workforce is becoming ever more essential – so much so that part of the College’s Strategic Plan focuses on recruiting and retaining candidates from historically underrepresented groups. The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) recently named the College of Education as an “Equitable and Excellent” program, one of 89 institutions nationwide that exhibit equity and excellence in pass rates for aspiring teachers of color.

WEST LAFAYETTE, IN – Purdue University’s Marcia Gentry and her passion for pioneering work and continued leadership in the field of gifted and talented education will be honored with the 2022 President’s Award from the National Association for Gifted Children...

The Purdue University College of Education launched the new Center for Literacy and Language Education and Research (CL²EAR) on August 1, 2022. CL²EAR will focus on faculty-led research, use literacy and language research at its core, and generate funding from...

Marcia Gentry is the executive director of the Gifted Education Research and Resource Institute at Purdue University. She also advises New York Edge, which developed the Excellence Project to bring gifted programming to underrepresented gifted and talented students students in New York City.

INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana schools have more than 4,200 open jobs right now, and more than half of those openings are teacher positions, according to the state’s education online job board.

As of Tuesday, more than 2,500 of the open positions posted on the site are teaching jobs.