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Family vacations don’t have to interrupt a child’s summer reading

A child’s summer reading doesn’t have to end as families make that last push to squeeze in vacations before the start of school. Melanie Kuhn, the Jean Adamson Stanley professor in literacy at Purdue University, said it is important that...

July 19, 2017

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High school students attend Purdue camp on teaching and diversity

More than 30 high school students will come to Purdue for EXCITE!, a five-day residential camp held on campus beginning Sunday (July 16). The College of Education developed EXCITE! to provide high school students with experiences that will inspire and...

July 18, 2017

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Providing books to U.S. citizen hopefuls

The director and assistant director of our James F. Ackerman Center for Democratic Citizenship provided books and teacher resource guides for Lafayette Urban Ministry’s (LUM) citizenship classes on the evening of Tuesday, July 11. Phillip VanFossen, Director of the Center...

July 14, 2017

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PhD student a ‘Top 10 Under 40’

Ileana Cortes Santiago, a PhD student in literacy and language, was honored today as one of the Top 10 Under 40 in Greater Lafayette. The award is bestowed by the Tippy Connect Young Professionals organization in connection with Greater Lafayette Commerce. Santiago's contributions...

June 22, 2017

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Marcia Gentry awarded funds from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation

Marcia Gentry, director of GERI and professor of gifted, creative and talented studies, was awarded $50,000 from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation to study census data to determine the under-representation of low-income students from rural areas and elsewhere in gifted...

June 12, 2017

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Communication key to dealing with grief during the holidays

Grief regarding the death of a loved one can be as big a part of the holidays as celebration for some families, according to College of Education professor Heather Servaty-Seib, who specializes in grief. She said the traditional gatherings of...

November 29, 2016

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