UCAPP alumnus and current principal at Hatton Elementary School, Bob Garry, makes a point to call families praising their child with the ‘Friday Phone Call’. – NBC Connecticut
Author: Leah Ward
No Explanation for End to New London Urban-Suburban Open Choice Program
“Casey Cobb, professor of education policy at the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut, suggested that the Open Choice program could help districts manage the demographic pressure of declining enrollments.” CT Examiner.
Parents Explore “Breaking Up” With Standardized Tests
LLEP Ph.D. candidate, Robert Cotto’s research is referenced in The New Haven Independent
Webinar on UCAPP Program Scheduled for March 4, 2020
Please join UCAPP’s Dr. Richard Gonzales on Mar. 4, for a webinar titled, ‘Lessons Learned by (Re)Design: Assessing Candidate Outcomes in UConn’s Administrator Preparation Program’.
Fresh Talk: Students must engage internationally to grow
Joseph Galarza, a current graduate student in the Higher Education and Student Affairs program, writes an op-ed the benefits of studying abroad, in the Hartford Courant.
Washington Central Picks New Superintendent
UCAPP and ELP alumnus, Bryan Olkowski, was recently selected to serve as Washington Central School Board’s new superintendent. Times Argus.
Should plaintiffs in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling about school choice be careful what they wish for?
EDLR’s Dr. Preston Green co-authors op-ed on school choice and education costs found in the Hechinger Report.
Ph.D. Candidates Integrate Open Dialogue Into Sport Management Courses
Several Neag School graduate students and faculty have been named 2019-20 Initiative on Campus Dialogues Fellows. This initiative brings together UConn students, staff, and faculty, as well as nonuniversity practitioners, to focus on dialogue and implementation. Sport Management graduate students Charles Macaulay and Ajhanai Newton, with Laura Burton and Justin Evanovich, are Fellows with their project “Sports Talk: Creating Dialogical Classrooms for the Development of Future Sport Leaders;”
Gerardo Blanco is a Fellow with the project “Promoting Cosmopolitanism through Global Dialogue in the Classroom”; and Patricia O’Rourke, a graduate student in curriculum and instruction, is a Fellow on the project “Continuing Project: Democratic Public Dialogue on Equity and Integration in Education.” Read more about Neag School’s ICD Fellows for 2019-20.
Supreme Court Case Could Deliver a Win for School Choice Advocates
EDLR’s Dr. Preston Green is quoted in the Chalkbeat on possible changes to public education funding.
Op-Ed: Baseball’s Existential Crisis
Sport Management’s Doug Glanville authors op-ed in the New York Times on cheating scandals and the effects on the game.