School of Education
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As one of the largest departments within a dynamic Research 1 university, the School of Education contributes groundbreaking and timely research across a wide range of subject areas within the field of education. Through this research, our faculty help children, families, teachers, and educational leaders address the challenges they meet in their schools and communities.
Our faculty contribute research in the areas of educational leadership; equitable and inclusive learning; evaluation, measurement, and statistics; literacy; mathematics education; the learning sciences; school psychology; social policies and systems; sociocultural and community-based approaches; teaching, learning, and technology across many content areas; and applied and advanced research methods.
In the last several years, faculty have garnered external funding in excess of $21 million from foundations and federal agencies including the Institute of Education Sciences, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institute of Health. Our faculty have been recognized nationally and internationally by organizations such as the American Educational Research Association, the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, the National Association of School Psychologists, and the Society for Research in Child Development, among others.
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