Education Archives

Jan 09, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU graduate students collect sunshine baskets for Pender County students

Ten East Carolina University graduate students have helped Pender County elementary and middle school students start the new year with much needed school supplies. Lauren Patterson, a special education teacher...

Nov 21, 2018
  • ECU News Services

ECU’s College of Education inducts 35; raises $40K for scholarships

Thirty-five educators and education advocates have been inducted in the East Carolina University College of Education’s Educators Hall of Fame. The 20th annual ceremony was held Oct. 27 in the...

Dr. Crystal Chambers, left, meets with doctoral student Hank Bowen to discuss his research project. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Oct 11, 2018
  • Crystal Baity

CARNEGIE FELLOW

An East Carolina University faculty member who has received a 2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship will study how students from rural areas across the United States make decisions about college. Dr....

East Carolina University faculty members Len Annetta, from left, Matt Militello, Charity Cayton and College of Education Dean Grant Hayes recently announced that the college secured a five-year, $9.8 million grant to study the effects of leadership in K-12 school systems. (Photo by Matt Smith)
Oct 10, 2018
  • Matt Smith

RESEARCH EMPOWERS PRINCIPALS

A group of East Carolina University researchers studying the effects of school leadership has secured a five-year, $9.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The study is led...

Sep 06, 2018
  • ECU News Services

State releases data on lab school performance

On Wednesday, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction released the first year of data on student achievement at UNC System Laboratory Schools at Western Carolina University and East Carolina...

Project CONVEY principal investigator Dr. Sandra Warren, center, speaks with graduate students, from left, Ashton Boyarsky, Allison Skinner, Samantha Ruppe Beard and Meredith Clark, who are part of the project’s first cohort during the CONVEY summer institute on Tuesday, June 19.
Jun 28, 2018
  • Cole Dittmer

PROJECT CONVEY

Breaking down the silos of public and higher education for the benefit of learners with disabilities with high intensity needs is the mission behind a new East Carolina University graduate...

Mar 26, 2018
  • ECU News Services

Greenville science teacher receives inaugural John C. Park Scholarship

A new scholarship at East Carolina University helped send an eastern North Carolina science teacher to a national conference this month. Allie Smith, an eighth grade science teacher at C.M....

Feb 26, 2018
  • ECU News Services

College of Education hosts summit with regional, national partners

Creating opportunities and maximizing achievement for all students was the focus of a school equity summit hosted recently by East Carolina University. The ECU College of Education Department of Educational...

Jan 18, 2018
  • ECU News Services

One-year, online master’s programs offered in College of Education

East Carolina University’s College of Education is offering teachers a way to earn their master’s degree in just over a year. Expected May education graduates or current teachers who are...

ECU Lab School scholars show off their surprise holiday gifts inside the Lab School at South Greenville Elementary School.
Dec 21, 2017
  • Cole Dittmer

WARM FOR THE HOLIDAYS

Each child at the East Carolina University Lab School carefully examined the mystery bag with purple and gold ribbons that magically appeared at their desks. On the Wednesday morning before...