As Fred Carofano’s advanced placement students file into his East Hartford statistics class on the Tuesday before Christmas, he hands out a playing card that determines where they will sit and gives them a quick statistics problem to work on. If they get it right, they get a stamp that yields points at the end […]

Faculty from the Neag School of Education keep in touch with their graduates and offers alumni professional development opportunities to facilitate continual growth and development even after their students receive their diplomas from the University of Connecticut. “Upon admission to the IB/M program, I always tell my students that our relationship will continue long after […]

Carmen Effron wanted to follow in her father’s footsteps. Kenneth Arminio, a career, Boston College and Neag-trained educator, taught at Pomperaug High School from 1951 until his death on Christmas Day 1968. “I found when he died … it was a huge, huge service because he really touched the lives of many people,” she recalls. […]

The University of Connecticut’s Department of Kinesiology in the Neag School of Education has received one of the highest honors in its field: For the second consecutive time, the National Academy of Kinesiology has ranked the doctoral program in kinesiology No. 1 in the U.S. The No. 1 ranking stands for five years. In recognition […]

Widline Guerrier, 17, a Bassick High School senior in Bridgeport, wants more challenge. She is tired of friends picking on where she attends high school and insinuating her courses are less rigorous than theirs. Judy Whittingham, a parent with three children at Bassick, wants books that go home with students, even if they have to […]

Ray Neag ’56, and his wife, Carole Neag, the most generous donors in the history of the University of Connecticut, have been honored as the state’s leading philanthropists. The 2010 Outstanding Philanthropist Award was presented by the Connecticut Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals in a ceremony on Nov. 19 at the Holiday Inn […]

Lisa Nesbitt started working for the Neag School of Education at UConn in May of 1979. A lot has changed since then. She recalled the technology in the early days, “We were using typewriters, ditto machines and transparency makers, and old ‘Bertha’ the Xerox copier which was the only copier for the entire School of […]

Eighth-semester undergraduate at Neag blogs about her experiences through UConn Welcome Mat. In UConn’s Neag School of Education, one of the highlights of the program is our many experiences with classroom observations. Each semester students are required to go to a school for at least six hours per week to watch, learn and help in […]

The Neag School of Education will host the 13th annual Alumni Society Awards banquet on Sat., May 14, 2011, in the South Campus Ballroom on the Storrs campus. At the dinner, the Alumni Society will bestow numerous awards, which will recognize educators and professionals who have made significant contributions across all levels of education. The […]

For Alan Marcus, associate professor in the Neag School of Education Department of Curriculum and Instruction, history is all about point of view. That’s so, whether it’s told through film, historical monuments or even textbooks. The trick, for the discerning consumer, is to question the perspective while giving it full value in the search for […]