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Once a year, approximately 15 teachers trade their classrooms for space aboard the research vessel JOIDES Resolution or the Gulf Coast Repository at Texas A&M University.

These educators are selected to participate in the School of Rock, a professional development workshop for science teachers and informal science educators from across the United States and member nations of the...

Courtesy - The College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University

The honorees of the 2012 Education and Human Ecology Hall of Fame and Alumni Awards share a common pattern.  They all have opened the eyes of lawmakers, policymakers, educators and business leaders to the needs of all our citizens.  On May 11th, the EHE Alumni Society Board of Governors, friends and...

Dr. Patricia Goodson, professor of health and kinesiology and director of POWER (Promoting Outstanding Writing for Excellence in Research) Services in the College of Education and Human Development, has been named a Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence at Texas A&M University.

The award was established in 2003 by former Texas A&M President Robert M. Gates to highlight...

Four bilingual education students will be breaking down language barriers this summer when they travel to Brazil.

The students, including three undergraduates and one graduate from the Department of Educational Psychology at Texas A&M University, will be sharing strategies and methods for teaching English in the classroom with Brazilian teachers of English.

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Recent special education graduate Morgan Baker ’12 knows the value of her college education and she wants to shout it from the rooftops.

Well, maybe not literally, but Morgan did spend the last two years of her undergraduate degree mentoring local Bryan High School students on the importance of a postsecondary education.

Morgan’s experiences are part of GEAR UP (Gaining Early...

America's expanding waistline is not limited to adults. Approximately one in five children are obese too, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

To combat this problem, the state of Texas has implemented a number of policies that focus on environmental factors contributing to childhood obesity.

E. Lisako McKyer, assistant professor of health education, is...