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Preparing effective teachers, leaders, and researchers; conducting and applying research; and offering accessible local and global outreach.

The Department of Education at Cornell University emphasizes field-based study in educational settings where social, economic, and political pressures interact to help shape policies and practices. The importance of the social and psychological context of learning and an overarching interest in field-based teaching and research are common to faculty members and staff whether they are teaching graduate students in Ithaca, conducting an outreach program in Syracuse, or leading a community-education project in Nigeria.

In the Newsroom

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Congratulations to the Cornell Collegiate FFA members on winning the New York State Farm Bureau Collegiate Discussion Meet. Undergraduate student Julia Porter will represent the NYS Farm Bureau at the American Farm Bureau Young Farmers and Ranchers Leadership Conference in Sacramento, CA, in February. Good luck Julia!
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Professor John Sipple presented the keynote talk at the National Rural School-Based Health Symposium
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Professor John Sipple presented at the On the Same Page Summit in Albany, NY on October 6-7.
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Governor Patterson signed into law the New York State Center for Rural Schools on Friday, September 26, 2008
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Professor Scott Peters has been named as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement
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Professor Scott Peters has signed a contract from Michigan State University press to publish his next book, Critic and Leader as Well as Servant: Higher Education's Roles in the Public Work of Democracy
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Professor Scott Peters will be giving the opening keynote lecture in Sustaining the Earth: Public Scholarship in the Arts and Humanities
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LEAD New York's Class 12 is headed to Spain in February 2009
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Kim Niewolny received awardKimberly L. Niewolny, PhD '07, is this year's recipient of the Marvin and Ruth Glock Research Award for her outstanding doctoral thesis research

Rob Humphrey recieves awardPhD candidate Robert J. Humphrey was awarded with the 2008 Julian E. Butterworth Doctoral Research Award. For a full list of this year's award winners, click here

Are New Yorkers Satisfied with the Public Education in their Communities? John Sipple and Robin Blakely present their findings in the January 2008 edition of The Rural New York Minute
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Professor John Sipple, Lisa McCabe, and Judith Ross-Berstein co-authored The Capacity of Early Childhood Care & Education in Rural New York State
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Professor Barbara Crawford and doctoral students Robert Humphrey and Xenia Meyer are designing innovative curricula to help diverse students learn about evolution and science inquiry by using authentic fossil samples
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Professor Deborah Trumbull and the Department of Physics' Rob Thorne have spearheaded successful efforts to obtain funding from the PhysTEC consortium
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NYS Center for Rural Schools

BARN-Center-for-Rural-SchoolsThe New York State Center for Rural Schools is operated by Cornell and is the first of its kind in the nation to be created by a state. Learn more>

Upcoming talks sponsored by the NYS Center for Rural Schools:

November 20, 4-5 p.m.
Mary Agnes & Steve Hamilton (Human Ecology)
Community Mentoring and School Success

December 4, 4-5 p.m.
David Brown, Max Pfeffer & Scott Sanders (Development Sociology)
Exploring the Bases for Promoting Brain Gain in the Southern Tier

December 18, 4-5 p.m.
Lisa McCabe, Charlie Izzo & Elliot Smith (Cornell's Family Life Development Center)
Impact of ecological factors on school readiness among children in the child welfare system: A comparison of rural and non-rural populations

Department Contact Information

Mailing Address:
Department of Education
Cornell University 
433 Kennedy Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853

Phone:
Main Office: (607) 255-2207
Undergraduate Office: (607) 255-4278
Graduate Field Office: (607) 255-4278
FAX: (607) 255-7905

Faculty Highlight

John W Sipple
Associate Professor

John W Sipple

Overview

John Sipple has been a member of the department since 1998. He has focused his research interests on the responses of public school districts to changes in state and federal policy. Central to his work are issues of leadership and organizational change and how they relate to learning opportunities... Read More

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Student Spotlights
  • Scott Campbell

    Scott Campbell

    I became interested in how relative levels of access to pre-engineering experiences - particularly, FIRST Robotics - positions students from specific backgrounds for success or failure as novice engineers

  • Mariana Cruz

    Mariana Cruz

    My areas of interest at this time are: Adult learning theory, feminist theory, critical pedagogies, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, and multicultural education.

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