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U-M professor selected as a Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching senior partner
Magdalene Lampert, George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor in Education, has been selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as one of five senior partners who will guide the development of the program’s agenda. The first topic is expected to be high failure rates among students in developmental mathematics in community colleges. [Read more...]
Michigan Solar Car Team finishes third in Australian race
For the fourth time in U-M Solar Car Team history, the students placed third in a biennial 1,880-mile race across Australia. Infinium crossed the finish line in Adelaide Wednesday evening (EDT), after competing for five days in the Global Green Challenge, formerly known as the World Solar Challenge. Tokai University of Japan won the race. Michigan fought hard with four-time champion team Nuon of the Netherlands for second place. On day four, the teams leap-frogged six times. But Infinium received a 10-minute penalty when the students had to push it up a tough hill toward the end of the race. That solidified Nuon’s lead. [Read more...]
U-M joins other leading research universities to launch futurity.org
A group of leading research universities has launched Futurity (www.futurity.org), an online research channel covering the latest discoveries in science, engineering, the environment, health and more. The University of Michigan is one of 35 partners supporting the project. Given the changes occurring in the news business, the partner universities are looking for ways to share important breakthroughs with the public in a new and direct way. [Read more...]
U-M exceeds $1 billion in annual research spending for the first time
Research spending at the University of Michigan in 2008-09 exceeded $1 billion for the first time, a milestone that highlights the university’s role as an economic resource benefitting the entire state. In the midst of the most severe recession since the Great Depression, research spending at the university rose 9.4 percent over the previous fiscal year, totaling $1.02 billion. The federal government provided 64.4 percent of the funds, and federal research spending at the U-M rose 7.1 percent over 2007-08. [Read more...]
Cell phones can be a classroom tool, says U-M instructor
U-M Instructor Elizabeth Keren-Kolb, a former high school teacher, believes that it’s time for schools to stop attempting to ban cell phones in the classroom and to begin using them as learning tools. Kolb discusses possible uses of cell phones to enhance learning on her blog, "From Toy to Tool: Cell Phones in Learning." (ISTE, 2008) One way she found the cell phone to be a learning tool is through audio blogging. Another is asking students to send summaries of reading materials in text messages. [read more...]
Four U-M programs ranked No. 1 by U.S. News & World Report
75% of programs either improved in rank or maintained previous position
Among the programs ranked each year by U.S News & World Report — business, education, engineering, law and medicine — U-M maintained top-14 rankings as published in the magazine’s 2009 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools” released on April 20, 2009. Four are ranked 1st: nuclear engineering, American politics, social psychology and economic sociology. The Medical School’s primary care ranking moved up to 12th this year, up five spots from last year. All told, 45 of the 59 specialties in which U-M is ranked either improved their positions or remained the same. [read more...]
How should teachers be licensed?
Is educational credential enough? Or should effectiveness be measured and count heavily?
The University of Michigan School of Education is redesigning its approach to teacher education to focus squarely on developing teachers’ skills with the most productive and important tasks of teaching. "We are currently identifying those skills of teaching that are crucial for ensuring student learning," said Deborah Ball, dean of the U-M School of Education. "These include the skills of communicating content clearly to students, holding students to high standards while explicitly showing students how to do complex work, establishing a productive classroom climate, interpreting and evaluating students’ work, and connecting effectively with students’ families." [read more...]