Education in the 21st Century
Karen Wixson served seven years as Dean of the School of Education. Under her leadership, the School of Education has developed its professional education programs, new forms of research on teaching and learning, and initiated a focus on the connections between K-12 and university education, and increased attention to issues of diversity.
School and the Public Agenda
We are not finished. Deborah Loewenberg Ball, Dean of the School of Education, believes education is central to the public agenda, and its promise and problems are widely debated. While progress has been made in many domains of research and practice, significant problems of educational opportunity and quality persist, not only in this country and around the world, but in our own context as well. At the same time, schools of education face unprecedented challenges. While everyone has a view about what high quality education is, and what its pressing problems are, many are skeptical of education schools and doubt that we can contribute knowledge that can support educational improvement.
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