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Research and Scholarship
Innovations in research and scholarship are hallmarks of the Curriculum and Instruction experience.
Grants
Dr. Arthur Baroody has three grants, totaling almost $250 million, related to helping young children learn mathematics. More information ...
Dr. Georgia Earnest Garcia, along with Dr. Eurydice Bauer, has a $1.5 million grant in collaboration with the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Minnesota. The purpose of the project is to work with teachers to improve the reading comprehension of elementary students, including bilingual students.
Dr. Fouad Abd El Khalick received an $866,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop an experimental alternative science and mathematics teacher certification program, RECRUIT, that aims to increase the number of secondary science and mathematics teachers from under-represented populations. More information ...
Dr. Barbara Hug is working with several universities on National Science Foundation grants totaling about $587,000 to improve science instruction in middle school and elementary classrooms. More information ...
Dr. Sarah Lubienski and Barbara Hug are collaborating on a $200,000 grant from the Illinois State Board of Education to develop a masters degree program designed to deepen elementary school teachers’ knowledge, integrating science, mathematics, and pedagogy with an inquiry-oriented approach. More information ...
Dr. Renee Clift has grants from the Chicago Public Schools and the Illinois State Board of Education to support the induction and mentoring of new teachers in the Chicago Public Schools and throughout the state. Her work ranges from developing e-mentoring projects for novice teachers to networking collaborations of mentoring projects across Illinois.
Journals
Mark Dressman and Sarah McCarthey with Paul Prior (English) are co-editors of the journal Research in the Teaching of English. The premier research journal for the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), RTE publishes cutting-edge research in all aspects of literacy from pre-school through college.
Liora Bresler is the editor of the International Journal of Education & the Arts that currently serves as an open access platform for scholarly dialogue. The journal is committed to the highest forms of scholarship invested in the significances of the arts in education and the education within the arts. More information ...
Ian Westbury is general editor of the Journal of Curriculum Studies. First published in 1968 and with regional editors in the US, Canada, Austria, Switzerland and Hong Kong, JCS is the leading international journal in curriculum studies broadly defined -- covering historical, comparative and policy-related studies of the curriculum, pedagogic theory, teacher education and development, assessment and evaluation, and the present state of schooling.
New Books
Marilyn Johnston-Parsons, Melissa Wilson, and the teachers at Park Street Elementary have published a book that tells insider success stories of life in a "failing" school, stories of the daily lives of children and educators in an urban school during a time when accountability weighs heavy on both teachers and students. More information ...
Mark Dressman will be publishing a book in March 2008 entitled Using Social Theory in Educational Research that explores the challenges and implications of social theories within educational research. More information ...
Arlette Willis recently published a book entitled “Reading Comprehension Research and Testing in the U.S.: Undercurrents of Race, Class, and Power in the Struggle for Meaning.”More information ...
Klaus Witz has published a book entitled "Spiritual Aspirations Connected with Mathematics: The Experience of American University Students". More information ...
Liora Bresler has edited the Handbook of Research in Arts Education published by Springer (February 2007). The two volumes (1600 plus pages) of the Handbook include chapters and interludes written by 113 authors, and additional fifty five international scholars discussing research in arts education in thirty five countries across the globe. More information ...
Noteworthy Research
In a widely publicized study, Dr. Sarah Lubienski and husband Christopher Lubienski (Department of Educational Organization and Leadership) concluded that contrary to common wisdom, public schools score higher in math than private ones, when differences in student backgrounds are taken into account. More information ...