Featured Articles

Shedding Light on How Children Interpret Dark Tourism

New research by Mary Margaret Kerr explores how visitor experiences can be improved for children at destinations associated with dark subject matter. For decades, she has led crisis teams responding to tragedies such as school deaths, accidents, natural disasters.

Why Some Education Reforms Stick and Others Don't

New research by Eleanor Anderson addresses a vexing question in education: Why do some education reforms become entrenched and others disappear?

Cultivating Race-Conscious School Leaders

New research by Michael Gunzenhauser and others explores how school principals think about (or don't think about) race with their students. It has implications for the school conditions.

Other Highlights

• Pitt School of Education Welcomes Ten New Faculty
• School Receives $2 Million Grant to Transform Teaching and Teacher Education
• Dean Valerie Kinloch Named a Trustee of Johnson C. Smith University
• Darris Means Selected for Rockefeller Fellowship to Study Rural Education
• Leigh Patel Publishes New Book on Learning, Struggle, and Settler Colonialism
• Gina Garcia Receives Midcareer Fellows Program Award
• Mary Margaret Kerr Receives Education Policy and Leadership Center Alumni Award
• PhD Student Alberto Guzman-Alvarez Receives National Dissertation Fellowship

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