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The College of Education at UT Austin Convenes a Learning Community to Examine the Significance of Curriculum Literacy in Texas

Dec. 14, 2021

Do teachers in Texas have access to high quality instructional materials and are they prepared and supported on how to use them? This is the question the Texas Education Curriculum Literacy Learning Community will research and examine over the next year. Led by faculty members in the College of Education…

Dean Martinez: Disrupting the Status Quo to Support Latino Students from Immigrant Families

Oct. 14, 2021

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Dean Charles R. Martinez, Jr. Interviewed About U.S. Teacher Shortage

Aug. 04, 2021

Dean Charles R. Martinez, Jr. Charles R. Martinez, Jr., dean of the College of Education, was interviewed about the teacher shortage for a four-part podcast series “Who wants to be a teacher?” by APM Reports, the investigative division of American Public Media.

Texas Education Convenes Statewide Summit to Address Pandemic’s Impact and Create Roadmap for PreK-12 Student Success

Mar. 26, 2021

For more than 100 leading educators, researchers, and policymakers who gathered online from throughout Texas on March 12, it wasn’t business as usual. It was an urgent mission to rethink education to address the pandemic’s profound impact on every aspect of the Texas learning system — from students, their families…

Dean Charles Martinez Discusses Findings of Recent Texas’ Public Education Poll

Mar. 12, 2021

Miles de Manos / Thousands of Hands is Subject of a New NIH Grant for the College of Education

Dec. 04, 2020

Dean and faculty will leverage strengths of families and communities across Honduras to lead research on a community-based youth violence intervention.

Dean Martinez on College Operations March 16-27

Mar. 15, 2020

This email is a follow-up from the announcement by President Fenves earlier about campus operations beginning tomorrow, Monday, March 16. To provide clarity, and following the spirit of President Fenves’ message: The University of Texas at Austin campus is continuing its essential operations and core functions. Wherever possible, staff who…

A Letter from Dean Martinez about COVID-19

Mar. 12, 2020

By now, you have likely read President Fenves’s March 11th email to campus indicating the extension of spring break for students by one week, and institutional efforts to increase social distancing measures in response to the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus). Leaders at UT and within the College of Education have been monitoring…

Charles R. Martinez, Jr.: Teachers are Routinely Devalued. We Have the Power to Change That.

Aug. 23, 2019

Dean Martinez discusses the immense value of teachers in an op-ed for the Austin-American Statesman saying, “There is truly no more important profession with the power to transform lives.”

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