UALR will host the 20th anniversary Arkansas Reading Recovery and Comprehensive Literacy K-8 Conference and Administrators Institute Wednesday to Friday, March 16-18, at Little Rock’s Peabody Hotel Conference Center.
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Dr. Bettye McDonald Caldwell, a national pioneer in early childhood development who earned a Ladies Home Journal “Woman of the Year” award in 1978, will be present at 2 p.m. Monday, March 28, when UALR officials unveil her portrait and dedicate the new Dr. Bettye M. Caldwell Early Childhood Development Classroom. An earlier ceremony had been canceled due to inclement weather.
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Dr. Kirstan Neukam, director of Institutional Research and Assessment at Oklahoma Panhandle State University, will deliver the keynote speech at the 2011 spring conference of the Arkansas Association of Assessment of Collegiate Learning (AAACL) from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 1, at Ledbetter Hall in UALR’s Donaghey Student Center.
Dr. Charles “Chuck” Welch, newly appointed president of the Arkansas State University System, will speak at 4:45 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 17, to graduate students in Dr. T. Gregory Barrett’s Higher Education Governance and Policy Making class in Room 203 of Dickinson Hall.
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UALR has received a $2.7 million grant through the U.S. Department of Education to expand its Reading Recovery program, a teacher training and literacy intervention education program based in the university’s College of Education.
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Dr. Pat Smith, professor in UALR’s Department of Counseling, Adult, and Rehabilitation Education (CARE), co-presented a general session at the International Conference of the Association for Education and Rehabilitation (AER) of the Blind and Visually Impaired titled, “Teamwork: Meeting Multiple, Diverse Needs by Sharing and Learning.”
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A presidential address by Dr. T. Gregory Barrett, assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, will be published this fall in the American Educational History Journal at the conclusion of his year as president emeritus of the Organization of Education Historians.
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Rene’ Carson of UALR’s College of Education, an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow, joins more than 80 current and former Fellows June 28-29 for a 20th Anniversary Summit, sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
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Do after-school tutoring sessions – required of public schools failing to meet No Child Left Behind goals – work? That is the question UALR psychology Professor Robert Corwyn hopes to answer during his summer research project.
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James E. Cofer, a graduate of UALR’s College of Education doctoral program, has been appointed president of Missouri State University in Springfield.
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