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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.
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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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Kimberly L. Niewolny, PhD '07, is this year's recipient of the Marvin and Ruth Glock Research Award for her outstanding doctoral thesis research
PhD 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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The 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>
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
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Scott Peters
Associate Professor
Overview
Scott Peters joined the Department of Education at Cornell University in August of 1999. He holds a B.S. in Education (1983) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an M.A. in Public Policy (1995) from the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, and a Ph.D. in... Read More
Jessica Matthews-Duval
Adolescent moral development, specifically the development of the moral self in adolescence. I am also interested in the connections between religious beliefs and conceptualizations and moral development
Mariana Cruz
My areas of interest at this time are: Adult learning theory, feminist theory, critical pedagogies, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, and multicultural education.