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How Do We Decide What To Do?

Welcome to this inaugural edition of the University of Pittsburgh School of Education online newsletter, PittEd. We hope that you find this a good way to keep up with what’s happening at your alma mater. For this first issue, I thought I might give you a glimpse into how we decide which faculty to hire and what programs to offer. Basically, we’re influenced in our decisions by three factors: student wishes and needs, institutional strengths, and public responsibility . Student Needs...

School of Education Makes Changes to Strengthen Teacher Education

The School of Education has recently made changes to keep us not only positioned as one of the top graduate schools in the country but more importantly as increasingly helpful and attentive to the needs of our students. One of the achievements the School of Education prides itself on is increasing teacher retention among our alumni working in the field. Unfortunately, teacher burnout has become an issue in the field overall, with educators working for a few years and then leaving. One r...

Why Are Women More Likely to Choose Non-Science Fields?

Ming-Te Wang, who joined the School of Education faculty last fall as an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology in Education, was featured in both TIME magazine and the journal Science about his recent research study related to women possibly being underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields due to “finding better opportunities elsewhere.” Wang’s study was published in the journal Psychological Science under the title, “Not Lack...

News and Notes

• Vision Studies Program Celebrates 50th Anniversary - Evelyn Curry-Rumph, [Professor Emeritus] Ralph Pea......
• New Faculty - The School of Education hired four new faculty memb......
• Faculty Promotions - Three faculty members have been promoted in the Sch......
• Faculty and Staff News - News and awards related to faculty and staff in the......

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