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Social Justice

Transforming Education in the Juvenile Justice System with Technology

A team of UMass Amherst faculty, staff, and students has developed an iPad app to engage incarcerated youth in STEM education and careers.

Professors Cris Smith and Darrell Earnest

Social Justice

Strengthening Early Grade Reading and Math Education Across the World

Cristine Smith and Darrell Earnest are multiplying the number of teachers world-wide skilled at teaching reading and math to the youngest children.

Research

Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Childhood

Sally Campbell Galman wants us to rethink everything we know about educating young children.

College of Education Job Fair

Save the Date: Wednesday April 10, 5:00-7:00 p.m. Furcolo Hall

News and Events

Learning more about the Eureka! Grant

Faculty affiliates of the Institute of Diversity Sciences at UMass Amherst were awarded a $299,271 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to examine the Eureka! partnership – an innovative 5-year program that addresses the gender gap in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The research project, entitled “Examining collective impact in a Community-University Partnership to Broaden Girls’ Participation in Science from Middle School to High School Graduation,” will deploy mixed-method research and have wide-ranging impact – informing researchers, educators, families and industry about how best to broaden participation in STEM education and the STEM workforce.

Open education resources: UMass Amherst College of Education

Open educational resource: Trust’s course "Online Tools for Learning and Instruction" created a database of tools viewed by more than 103,000 people in 208 countries

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Mar

Civics, Smartphones and Score Reports

Hear from Dr. Howard Wainer, Principal Research Scientist, Emeritus, Educational Testing Service; and Distinguished Research Scientist, Emeritus, National Board of Medical Examiners.

Effective communication requires the same qualities as does being an effective citizen. In this talk we will explore how to improve different kinds of written communications, ranging over score reports for mental tests, health reports from medical tests, and the outcomes of other deliberative processes. These will be illustrated with some very fine examples and some that are considerably less so.

Mar

Graphs as Poetry

Hear from Dr. Howard Wainer, Principal Research Scientist, Emeritus, Educational Testing Service; and Distinguished Research Scientist, Emeritus, National Board of Medical Examiners.

Visual displays of empirical information are too often thought to be just compact summaries that, at their best, can clarify a muddled situation. This is partially true, as far as it goes, but it omits the magic. We have long known that data visualization is an alchemist that can make good scientists great and transform great scientists into giants. In this talk we will see that sometimes, albeit too rarely, the combination of critical questions addressed by important data and illuminated by evocative displays can achieve a transcendent, and often wholly unexpected, result. At their best, visualizations can communicate emotions and feelings in addition to cold, hard facts.

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