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COEHDnews -- Week of Fri, September 23, 2016
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UTSA
ranked among the top 100 U.S. universities by Times Higher Education |
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by KARA
MIRELES, UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS| Pub: 09/22 |
 UTSA
has been ranked among the top 100 universities in the United States and among the top 400 in the world according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2016-2017. The annual rankings measure world-class universities across their core missions
including teaching and research. There are more than 20,000 universities worldwide. |
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COEHD
hosts annual college-wide meeting |
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by JO
ANN JONES, COEHD| Pub: 09/21 |
 The
College of Education and Human Development hosted its annual college-wide meeting for all faculty and staff on Wednesday, September 21 in the University Center Denman Room. |
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UTSA
launches next chapter in literacy learning |
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by COURTNEY
CLEVENGER, UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS| Pub: 09/20 |
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University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has taken a giant step forward in its ongoing mission to support the improvement of literacy in the San Antonio area and across the State with the opening of The Center for the Inquiry of Transformative Literacies
(CITL). The center redevelops La Plaza de Lectura (The Reading Place), a pre-existing UTSA service center that provides services to children who struggle with learning to read, into a formal research center and consolidates the university's many literacy-focused
programs under one roof. |
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Announcements
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COSA
Challenge Grant Opportunity |
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Center for Civic Engagement and the City of San Antonio Challenge Grant Center for Civic Engagement |
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Through the generosity of Councilman Ron Nirenberg and the city’s discretionary funds, the Center for Civic Engagement launched the COSA Challenge Grant last month.
This grant funds service-learning projects for students, groups, classes and RSO’s. The challenge is to do a creative community project that benefits a nonprofit agency and/or the population they serve in our local San Antonio community. Grant awards are up
to $500 per individual and a $1000 for a group project. Students, groups and organizations must have a faculty advisor and a nonprofit agency already selected for the project. Deadline is Sept. 30, 2016, or until all funds are distributed. .#UTSAEngaged, Twitter
and Instagram @UTSAengaged or facebook.com/UTSAengaged |
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External News
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Sixth
Grade Is Tough; It Helps To Be ‘Top Dog’ |
by ANYA KAMENETZ - nprEd
(National Public Radio Education) | Pub: 09/22
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Middle schoolers report higher rates of bullying and fights than students in any other grade span, and their academic performance also tends to dip. But things could
be a little better — if we just got rid of middle schools, according to a big new study.
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From
Mozart To Mr. Rogers: Literacy, Music And The Brain |
by CORY TURNER AND ANYA
KAMENETZ - nprEd (National Public Radio Education) | Pub: 09/22
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A test that can flag struggling readers before they're old enough to read and the power of music to help a child hear language. A literacy two-fer from the NPR Ed Team.
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The
Big Move To Improve Head Start |
by ANYA KAMENETZ - nprEd
(National Public Radio Education) | Pub: 09/22
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New rules, new reviews, and new funding for young, low-income children.
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Publisher
Defends Controversial Mexican-American Studies Textbook |
by KIAH COLLIER AND NICOLE
COBLER - Texas Tribune | Pub: 09/22
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The publisher of a proposed Mexican-American studies textbook that scholars, elected officials and Hispanic activists have decried as racist and inaccurate is defending
the high school text ahead of a public hearing.
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Texas
is Keeping Tens of Thousands of Children Out of Special Education |
by RHONDA FANNING - TPR
Texas Public Radio | Pub: 09/22
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Since the 1970s, federal law has stated that all children with disabilities are entitled to a free public education appropriate to their needs. Nationwide, the percentage
of kids who receive special ed services is around 13 percent.
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Frustration.
Burnout. Attrition. It’s Time To Address The National Teacher Shortage |
by ERIC WESTERVELT - TPR
Texas Public Radio | Pub: 09/22
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The good news: There's an uptick in the hiring of new teachers since the pink-slip frenzy in the wake of the Great Recession. The bad news: The new hiring hasn't made
up for the teacher shortfall. Attrition is high, and enrollment in teacher preparation programs has fallen some 35 percent over the past five years — a decrease of nearly 240,000 teachers in all. Parts of most every state in America face troubling teacher
shortages: the most frequent shortage areas are math, science, bilingual education and special education.
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‘You
Have to Be Fearless’ |
by SARA LIPKA - The
Chronicle of Higher Education | Pub: 09/21
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Overcoming stigmas is one of many challenges for students on the autism spectrum.
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Learn
about the college that is best for you |
by - Daytime
at 9 | Pub: 09/20
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Are you currently a high school student who is not sure what college you would like to attend? Or someone who would like to go back to college but not certain where
to start? Then "College in our Community College Fair" is just for you! This event will include many colleges nationwide and give you the information you need to succeed. To learn more, view the details below.
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She
remembers the Virginia Tech massacre. Here’s what she wants to say to the person who just |
by KAITLYN FOUGHT - The
Washington Post | Pub: 09/20
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Not long after classes started last month, Virginia Tech officials warned the campus community that threatening emails had arrived at multiple inboxes. The Collegiate
Times, a campus newspaper, reported that the text of the emails read, “I am here to inform that in the next couple of days I will break in to the campus and will kill as many people as I can until the police arrives.”
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UTSA
to launch new goals for Downtown Campus’ literacy center |
by SILVIA FOSTER-FRAU - San
Antonio Express-News | Pub: 09/19
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In an effort to become a Tier One institution, the University of Texas at San Antonio is repositioning its programs to strengthen its role as a research institution,
officials said. As such, the center formerly known as La Plaza de Lectura will be launched today as the Center for the Inquiry of Transformative Literacies. While it will continue its work to improve child literacy through tutoring and instructional training,
the center will also focus on data collection and revamping its research team. “As a research center, we can funnel our resources not only into serving children, which we will continue to do, but disseminating our research that is helpful to parents and children,”
said Misty Sailors, director of the center.
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Publications
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Have
You been recently published? |
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ALL FACULTY AND GRADUATE
STUDENTS - Other Academics | PUBLISH? DON'T PERISH!: 09/01 |
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Do You Have a APA Cite for a recent publication??? Send the TITLE, FACULTY NAME, DEPARTMENT, JOURNAL NAME and the APA CITE to:
coehdcomm@utsa.edu (Deadline: Thursdays)
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Research
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Autism
Grant Program-Parent Directed Treatment |
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB)
Awarded: $459,976 Interdisciplinary
Learning and Teaching
PI: Lee Mason Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching
CI: Leslie Neely Educational Psychology
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