Dr. Valenzuela Participates in Dropout Conference, Presents Details of Crisis to Texas Legislators
Dr. Angela Valenzuela recently participated in a Children At Risk Dropout Conference at the Texas state capitol, speaking to legislators about the high cost paid by the state when an average 120,000 Texas students a year drop out of school....

Dr. Angela Valenzuela Chosen for National Education Task Force, Honored with Fulbright Scholarship
Dr. Angela Valenzuela has been chosen as a member of the National Education Task Force. The task force is a Congressional advisory committee comprised of scholars who do policy work in the areas of education assessment and accountability....

Unique Physical Culture Collection Becomes Part of a New, Expansive Academic Center
The University of Texas at Austin?s Todd-McLean Physical Culture Collection, believed to contain the most extensive archives in the world related to physical culture and sport, will serve as the foundation of the newly-named H. J.Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports....

History Gets Real: Web-based Resource gives 20th-Century Presidents Center Stage
The College of Education, UT Libraries and the National Archives and Records Administration's presidential libraries have created an interactive online resource that pulls together hundreds of digitized items from all 12 of the presidential libraries. This Timeline incorporates more than 600 letters, phone conversations, diaries, video and photos from 20th-century U.S. presidencies....

Dr. Beth Maloch Wins National Early Career Achievement Award
Dr. Beth Maloch, an associate professor in the College of Education's Department of Curriculum and Instruction and an expert in literacy education, has been awarded the National Reading Conference's Early Career Achievement Award....

Autism Program Gives Free Training to “Extreme Makeover” Family
The University of Texas Autism Project (UTAP) recently participated in the production of an episode of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," a popular ABC television program in which a deserving family with a house in ill repair gets a total home renovation in seven days....

Redefine the Finish Line: Overemphasis on Athletic Success may Limit Academic Pursuits for African American Children
Why are African American kids given the message that they can become professional athletes when so few can? And how does this message limit the possibilities they pursue? Dr. Louis Harrison Jr., associate professor in Curriculum and Instruction, is seeking to answer and better understand these questions....

Dr. Paul Resta Serves as President Of International Jury for New UNESCO Prize
Dr. Paul E. Resta, Director of the LTC and Professor of Instructional Technology in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, recently served as President of the international jury to award the UNESCO's King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Education....

Dr. Patricia Somers Named Fulbright Program New Century Scholar
She is one of 30 top education scholars from around the world to be chosen and will be leaving in April for a two-month research visit to Brazil to study issues of student access and equity in higher education....

Child's Play: Demise of Play Bodes Ill for Healthy Child Development
In addition to not visiting an actual library to look up a quick fact or carry a phone larger than half a slice of Spam, children may also reach adulthood without weathering the ancient rite of dodge ball or playing tag at recess. To a leading national expert on playground safety and a 40-year scholar on child development, it sounds like a big mistake....