TruthOut (Neag School’s Preston Green offers insights on recent legal rulings impacting charter schools)

Hartford Courant (Neag School alumnus, current Ed.D. student, and former UConn football player, Uyi Osunde, is the new principal)

The 74 (Neag School’s Preston Green is interviewed regarding a recent National Labor Relations Board ruling on charter schools in N.Y. and Pa.)

Record Journal (Neag School graduate student, Casey Cochran, was interviewed about his decision to quit football due to numerous concussions) 

Cayman 27 (Neag School’s George Sugai offers insights on student success) 

The Neag School of Education welcomes three new faculty members this fall.

The Chronicle of Higher Education (Neag School student Rueben Pierre-Louis and professor Erik Hines were interviewed for this story about the living community)

Congratulations to our Neag School alumni, faculty, staff, and students on their continued accomplishments inside and outside the classroom. If you have an accolade to share, we want to hear from you! Please send any news items (and story ideas) to neag-communications@uconn.edu.

When recent Neag School graduate Sarah Hodge ’15 (ED), ’16 MA was still a high schooler, she enrolled as one of the first students in the Teacher Preparatory Studies Program at Bulkeley High School, an initiative funded by Bank of America and designed to prepare and encourage talented students, particularly from minority groups, to become teachers. Although she found that she liked working with students, a teaching career was not necessarily what she thought she wanted to pursue at the time.

While educators have long been encouraged to engage students in writing when teaching math, specific recommendations on how to leverage writing to enhance learning of mathematics have fallen short — until now.