Revamped, reimagined, renamed, relaunched. Learn Magazine debuts with stories about faculty, students and alums, and their contributions to education and the community. In this most unusual year, when a pandemic collided with new social justice awareness, the people of GSE adapted, taught, studied and learned how to educate in an unprecedented time.
The practice of naming infectious diseases after specific people or places perpetuates xenophobia around the globe, according to Tiffany Karalis Noel, a UB GSE expert on sociocultural inequity.
The University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education will not require applicants to submit Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) scores for admission to non-teacher and librarianship certification academic programs for the next two years.
For the thousands of schools around the nation grappling with the decision to reopen, extending remote learning could place immense stress on teachers balancing motherhood and the rising expectations for educators.
UBGSE alumna Amanda Knapp has raced off-road motorcycles since she got one as a present after finishing her PhD in education policy. As an associate vice provost and assistant dean leading student success at @UMBC, she sees parallels in racing and navigating college: It takes grit and the right supports to be successful.
If the Nation’s Report Card was reimagined to include physical and emotional health, in addition to academics, the United States would receive a C, said UB GSE educational policy expert Jaekyung Lee.
After the COVID-19 pandemic closed local schools last spring, Sarah A. Robert, GSE associate professor of learning and instruction and a specialist in school food politics, joined Seeding Resilience, a new Buffalo coalition of government representatives, community members and nonprofits connected to the food system and its supply chain.
School psychologist and mother Desiree Williams, MA/AC ’15, got serious about finishing her children's book “Brilliant Brown Babies,” when her father died. She was inspired to start the project when she noticed there were lots of fun and engaging books for young children with white characters. There were not many that featured Black characters.
Boldly Buffalo is a fundraising campaign that will transform UB—and the Graduate School of Education—in nearly every way imaginable. Now, we are asking you to contribute to this historic campaign, and invest in solving education’s toughest challenges.