Education

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.

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. Friday, Feb. 11, when UALR officials unveil her portrait and dedicate the new Dr. Bettye M. Caldwell Early Childhood Development Classroom.

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 … UALR Hosts College Assessment Conference

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 … New ASU Prez Demonstrates What a UALR Doctorate Can Do

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 … Reading Recovery Awarded $2.7 Million Grant

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) … CARE Profs Shine at Recent International Conference

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 … Barrett Ends Presidential Tour with Publication

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 … Carson Joins Einstein Fellows to Improve Education

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 … Professor to Assess ‘No Child Left Behind’ Supplements

James E. Cofer, a graduate of UALR’s College of Education doctoral program, has been appointed president of Missouri State University in Springfield.