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Dave Moursund, who founded the organization that would become the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), died Sept. 1 at the age of 84.

He helped transform a relatively small group of computer-using teachers in the 1970s into an international organization that serves educators, leaders and higher ed faculty, and influences education policy at the national level. 

Bite by bite, burger by burger, Grand Forks’ A&W last week raised nearly $700 for people living with multiple sclerosis (MS).

It was perhaps a humble contribution to the fast-food chain’s 13th annual “Burgers to Beat MS” campaign when, every Aug. 19, the company donates $2 to MS research from every Teen Burger sold nationwide, according to the MS Society of Canada’s (MSSC) website. It was a massive success, no matter how you look at it, for local organizers Amanda Blades and Patti Bevilacqua.

Patti Bevilacqua is an alumna of the COE.

Catapult Learning, a provider of intervention programs for students and professional development solutions for teachers in both public and nonpublic K-12 schools, today announced the availability of its new high-dosage tutoring offering, an intensive program designed to reinforce students’ foundational skills and quickly recover their unfinished learning. Debuting as students return to school, the program supports academic and social emotional growth during this critical time in their educational journey. It is uniquely designed for grades K-12 and features an acceleration approach that targets key prerequisite and grade-level standards and skills, providing a personalized plan to guide instruction and support differentiation.

Catapult has strong partnerships in place with the U.S Department of Defense Education Activity and the Center on Teaching & Learning at the University of Oregon.

An upcoming study, led in part by a College of Education doctoral graduate, will look at how education students respond to stress from taking racial bias tests, as part of an effort to help better prepare new teachers.

Tracking physiological and biological stress responses can help researchers design better ways for teaching new educators about race and racism, as well as help educators better understand their own implicit biases.

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National Institute of Justice’s Recidivism Forecasting Challenge aims to improve the ability to forecast recidivism using person- and place-based variables with the goal of improving outcomes for those serving a community supervision sentence. This challenge asked data scientists to build recidivism forecasting models using data provided by NIJ to examine factors related to successful offender reentry.​

Cengiz Zopluoglu is one of the winners for the challenge. Cengiz’s submissions (Team CrescentStar) placed 3rd in three of the large team categories.

While the U.S. is one of the most educated countries in the world, it doesn’t provide the same quality elementary school or secondary school education to all students. In many states, more affluent school districts receive a greater amount of funding per student than poorer districts.

In order to provide further insight on how to promote equitability in education, WalletHub turned to a panel of experts.

Jerry Rosiek is featured as an expert.

Riverside Insights, a leading developer of research-based assessments, announced today easyCBM is launching two new features that will allow school districts to make more meaningful progress on implementing their Response to Intervention (RTI) strategies.

“The new features for easyCBM have been sought after by teachers, and we are excited to be able to deliver these enhancements,” said Dr. Gerald Tindal, co-author of easyCBM and the Director of Behavioral Research and Teaching (BRT) in the College of Education at the University of Oregon. “Now, teachers are able to streamline the process of providing feedback to deepen students’ writing skills, while diagnosing error patterns and identifying student gaps in learning.”