University of Utah Progrm Named among Top in the U.S. for Preparing Future Elementary Math Teachers
The Urban Institute for Teacher Education's (UITE) undergraduate program in elementary teacher preparation for math has been ranked one of the country's top programs for training future educators the skills and content expertise they need to be high-quality math educators by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ). The program was given an "exemplar" rating of A+ for its requirements in elementary mathematics for essentials such as numbers and operations, algebraic thinking, geometry and measurement, data analysis and probability, and math pedagogy for teaching these critical concepts. In fact, UITE met 100% of the instrucitonal goals across every content area.
Math ability in elementary school is a key predictor of whether or not students will graduate high school, and gaps between low- and high-poverty schools as well as white- and black-majority schools have increased, making the teaching of math skills more important than ever. Please join us in congratulating all our UITE faculty and staff and UITE Director Mary Burbank on this remarkable achievement.
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Dr. Chris Linder Awarded Presidential Scholarship
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Joan and Loki Mulholland
February 13 civil rights icon Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, together with filmmaker Loki Mulholland, presented The Uncomfortable Truth. Using clips from the 2017 documentary with the same name, the Mulholland’s spoke about the ways in which racism continues to organize life in the United States.
MAX FELKER-KANTOR
March 5 American historian Dr. Max Felker-Kantor explained how the Los Angeles Police Department, faced with restrictions on its discretionary authority during the late 1950s and 1960s, sought to expand its power. Referencing his book Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD, Kantor’s research shows us how historical events connect with what we are seeing with today’s school-to-prison pipeline.
BENJAMIN CRUMP
March 26 Benjamin Crump, attorney at law, spoke to Using the Law as a Weapon. Mr. Crump shared his experiences with the “intellectual justification of discrimination” and highlighted examples of how the law has been used as a weapon again African Americans throughout history. Mr. Crump advised we must work through both education and economic channels to achieve change and equality as one cannot progress without the other.
Alumni, Emeriti, and Friends
Sally H. Barlow, Ph.D., has taught in the Psychology Department at Brigham Young University for 33 years where she received the Karl Maeser Award for Excellence in teaching. She has co-edited 2 books, and authored a third, published many articles and books chapters.
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