The Center for Education: Celebrating 20 years of working for the teachers and students of Houston
The ultimate aim of the Rice University Center for Education is to assure more equitable, more academically rich learning experiences for all children. We work directly with teachers to assure their capacity to engage children in authentic learning and, we further enrich their teaching through workshops, courses, conferences, publications. We conduct research on key issues in urban education, teaching and learning, educational policy, and through the dissemination of our research findings, we work to assure that those teachers, and the children they serve, are surrounded by a well-informed circle of public support.
You may participate in the Center's work by attending a workshop, taking part in a year-long teacher enrichment course, exploring our research, or attending a public seminar. For more information, see the links at the left, or call us at 713-348-5145.
The Center's School Literacy and Culture Project will be working with the new Rice Children's Campus to provide its proven program of early literacy and child-centered learning.
2008 Creekmore Symposium
Tuesday, April 29
4:30 to 6:00
Shell Auditorium in McNair Hall
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Avoidable Losses
As graduation rates go down, school ratings go up
Just published in the Education Policy Analysis Archives, "Avoidable Losses: High Stakes Accountability and the Dropout Crisis," by Center for Education researchers: Linda McSpadden McNeil, Eileen Coppola, Judy Radigan, and UT-Austin researcher Julian Vasquez Heilig. Click here for more information.
Ron Sass, the Center's co-Director Emeritus, receives Nobel honor for his work on climate change.
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Conoco Phillips joins with
the Center for Education to create new Elementary Model
Science Lab
New Lab to open in Spring Branch in August 2008, bringing the latest proven methods of teaching science to educators from around the area.
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School Science & Technology Training program
reported by local paper.
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