Newswise — The University of Michigan has several experts available to discuss education issues. They include:
Kids can email and IM but can they write an essay?--Anne Ruggles Gere, professor of education and English at the University of Michigan, is one of the nation's foremost scholars on literacy and the art of writing and a recent author of a book on preparing students for essays. A recent study shows writing skills diminishing and argues that the amount of time spent on writing should double. She has also focused on the mismatch between populations in teacher education and those in public schools.
For more on Gere, visit: http://ipumich.temppublish.com/public/experts/ExpDisplay.php?ExpID=285
How is the No Child Left Behind plan working? --Susan Neuman is back at U-M after serving two years as U.S. assistant secretary of elementary and secondary education in charge of implementing No Child Left Behind. She is a professor of educational studies, directed the Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement and has done extensive research on early childhood policy and curriculum.
For more on Neuman, visit: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/soe/faculty&mode=single&recordID=51090
Hand-held computers in K-12, technology in education --Elliott Soloway, professor of electrical engineering and computer science with appointments in engineering and the School of Education, researches the use of technology in education and the development of software that better serves learners and is principal investigator for the Center for Learning Technologies in Urban Schools.
For more on Soloway, visit:http://ipumich.temppublish.com/public/experts/ExpDisplay.php?ExpID=861
The achievement gap and education issues for urban students --Percy Bates, professor in the University of Michigan School of Education and director of Programs for Education Opportunity, is an expert in minority education issues and public school desegregation issues related to equity in the areas of race, gender and national origin. He has also done research on the recruitment of minorities and women in the workplace and effective retention plans.
http://ipumich.temppublish.com/public/experts/ExpDisplay.php?ExpID=48
How did we get here? The history of education reform --Maris Vinovskis, the University's Bentley Professor of History who advised the U.S. Education Department during three presidential administrations, has studied the history of federal involvement with education dating back to the 1960s. Vinovskis, who is also a professor in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the Center for Political Studies, has worked on education issues for both Democratic and Republican administrations in Washington. He is available to speak with reporters on federal efforts to improve education and the history of education reform.
For more on Vinovskis, visit:http://ipumich.temppublish.com/public/experts/ExpDisplay.php?ExpID=788
Academic red-shirting, factors predicting school readiness, early literacy --Frederick Morrison, a professor in psychology and education at U-M, is one of the nation's top experts on early childhood readiness for school including reading disabilities and early development issues. He is also a senior research scientist for U-M's Center for Human Growth and Development.
For more about Morrison; http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/directory/profiles/faculty/?uniquename=fjmorris
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