Xiaodan Hu wants to know more about why, and how many, students do or do not succeed at the NIU College of Education. Jodi Lampi wants to strengthen the Academic Literacy and Learning Program she directs as part of her work as
Read moreNew Educate Local program transports Special Ed majors to try literacy projects in alternative Chana Education Center
For years, Mary Gardner has required her LTCY 300 students to create theoretical “listening center” projects on paper. Gardner, an instructor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, expects these assignments to propose good nonfiction texts to read aloud to children. She
Read moreJerry L. Johns Literacy Clinic to open Little Free Library at Glidden Homestead
NIU’s Jerry L. Johns Literacy Clinic will open its 10th Little Free Library next semester in front of the historic Joseph F. Glidden Homestead and Historical Center. Kristine Wilke, the clinic’s new director, is excited to secure the 921 W. Lincoln Hwy.
Read moreLEED remains a leader in faculty production
A new study published by researchers in the Department of Teacher Education at Brigham Young University ranks NIU’s literacy faculty within the top-10 most productive literacy faculties in the country for the years 2006 through 2012. The article, which appears in the
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