Secondary education majors prepare to show their students the wide world of career options
On October 7 students in schools across the state participated in Missouri Manufacturing Day. This holiday was declared by Governor Jay Nixon as part of a larger national initiative designed to address common misconceptions about manufacturing and to give local manufacturers the opportunity to open their doors to students and, in a coordinated effort with […]
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Education leaders learn lessons walking in their students’ shoes
While William Woods education graduates scatter across nearly all of Missouri’s 567 school districts as teachers, principals and superintendents, they all wake each school day to a shared question and concern: how well do I relate to my students? Do you have a strong understanding of what their day-to-day school life looks like? What if […]
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New report shares lessons we can learn from the best schools in the world
Half a century ago, the United States workforce was widely recognized as the best educated in the industrialized world. Today, studies show, it is found to be among the least. As bachelors in education students across the U.S. study and train to fill the gaps and work to resurrect the quality of education in our […]
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Heroes in low-income schools: Part 2
In our last Look Into Education blog, we discussed the great need in Missouri and all across the U.S. for education leaders — heroes — to step into low-income schools and enact change. Linda Cliatt-Wayman grew up attending Strawberry Mansion High School, a low-income school in Philadelphia, and shares her story in a TED Talk. […]
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Heroes in low-income schools: Part 1
For the first time in recent history, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reports that a majority of the schoolchildren attending the nation’s public schools come from low-income families — 51 percent. In Missouri, 45 percent of public school students come from low-income families, according to a report from the Southern Education Foundation. But […]
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Bachelors in education students learn the importance of leadership in and outside the classroom
In February of this year, four leading education groups — The National Education Association (NEA), the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and the U.S. Department of Education — met at the 2016 National Summit on Teachers Leadership to encourage and empower more educators to be leaders in their […]
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The importance of bachelors in education students challenging gifted learners
“Keeping a child who can do sixth-grade work in a second-grade classroom is not saving that student’s childhood but is instead robbing that child of the desire to learn,” writes Ellen Winner, Professor and Chair of psychology at Boston College in her book, Gifted Children: Myths and Realities. According to a National Teacher Survey on […]
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Why preschool is important and how education students can get involved
Between 2011 and 2013 54 percent of U.S. children ages three to four were not attending preschool, according to the most recent survey by Kids Count Data Center, an organization that provides data on child and family well-being across the country. Furthermore, in Missouri, between 2011 and 2013, an estimated 56 percent of children age […]
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Teaching democracy matters
54.9 percent of eligible voters actually cast their ballots for the 2012 presidential election. For the youngest group of voters, that number is closer to one-third. 57.1 percent of eligible voters voted in 2008, which, even reaching the highest voter turnout since 1968, was still pretty weak. Among Americans, civic knowledge, engagement, participation and awareness […]
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Most effective ways bachelors in education students get finals-ready
The campus is somber, with a slight hint of tension hanging in the air. Students seek a quiet place of concentration, from the packed-out Starbucks at the student center to the quiet corners of the library. Dining hall doors stay open around the clock, providing coffee and snacks to those late night studiers who need […]
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