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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.

For decades, the field of computing education has focused on the transfer of primarily technical knowledge from instructor to student. This left limited opportunities for students to apply what they have learned to complex or “messy” problems that are typical...

The proposed civics education standards for middle school students were discussed during a public meeting Tuesday of the commission that authored the guidelines. Beginning in 2023, middle school students will be required to take one semester of civics before starting high school.