Connecticut has some of the nationʼs worst disparities when it comes to the reading performance of low-income students compared to their more affluent peers, but an innovative new initiative coordinated by the University of Connecticutʼs Neag School of Education aims to study and change that. Launching this fall, the CT K-3 Literacy Initiative (CK3LI) will […]

Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers, a new What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) practice guide, provides four recommendations that teachers and other educators can use to improve students’ writing. After examining the relevant research evidence, a panel of experts in writing, language arts, and education research developed the practice guide that highlights the following […]

How school psychologists can help students prevent obesity and, in turn, achieve academic success is the focus of a study conducted by Neag School of Education researchers and published in the National Association of School Psychologists’ School Psychology Forum. Based on research Neag Educational Psychology doctoral student Scott McCarthy conducted for his dissertation, the study […]

During my final year at UConn, my passion for travel and foreign cultures led me to seek a teaching position abroad. With a 12-hour time difference, a history steeped in mystery and legend, and a written language based on thousands of characters, the Peopleʼs Republic of China was about as far away as I could […]

  As a biology teacher and department head for E.O. Smith High School in Storrs, Jack Cohen helped educate young people for most of his life. Retired in 1989 after 31 years, Cohen still believes deeply in the value of education and has decided to support it even after he is gone.  Cohen has pledged […]

Jeffrey Anderson, the physician responsible for the health and safety of the 650 student-athletes who represent UConn in 24 sports, has been named the new independent administrator of the Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program for Major League Baseball (MLB) and the MLB Players Association. In his new role Anderson will administer testing requirements, monitor […]

Two and a half years after it opened in the Neag School of Education, UConn’s Korey Stringer Institute is on a mission to protect high school athletes around the country from heat stroke and other serious illness and injury. To date, eight states – Texas, Georgia, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, New Jersey and Connecticut […]

Dr. Wendy Glenn, associate professor of English education at the Neag School of Education and young adult literature expert, gives a review of the book “The Hunger Games” for the French newspaper, Le Monde. Below is her review.   The Hunger Games series has become so successful among both teens and adults given both the […]

In 2008, Catherine Whall Smith was working on a quilt about the presidents of the United States. She thought Hillary Clinton would get the Democratic nomination and then win the presidency. Then Clinton conceded. So Smith excluded Clinton and just changed the name of the quilt to “Where’s Hillary?” That wasn’t the only time Smith […]

You can be the best science teacher in the world, but if you’re not in the right environment and there is not solid leadership, then those problems will show on the science test.