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Preparing effective teachers, leaders, and researchers; conducting and applying research; and offering accessible local and global outreach.

The Department of Education at Cornell University emphasizes field-based study in educational settings where social, economic, and political pressures interact to help shape policies and practices. The importance of the social and psychological context of learning and an overarching interest in field-based teaching and research are common to faculty members and staff whether they are teaching graduate students in Ithaca, conducting an outreach program in Syracuse, or leading a community-education project in Nigeria.

In the Newsroom

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Governor Patterson signed into law the New York State Center for Rural Schools on Friday, September 26, 2008.
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Professor Scott Peters has been named as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement
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Professor Scott Peters has signed a contract from Michigan State University press to publish his next book, Critic and Leader as Well as Servant: Higher Education's Roles in the Public Work of Democracy
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Professor Scott Peters will be giving the opening keynote lecture in Sustaining the Earth: Public Scholarship in the Arts and Humanities
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LEAD New York's Class 12 is headed to Spain in February 2009
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Kim Niewolny received awardKimberly L. Niewolny, PhD '07, is this year's recipient of the Marvin and Ruth Glock Research Award for her outstanding doctoral thesis research

Rob Humphrey recieves awardPhD candidate Robert J. Humphrey was awarded with the 2008 Julian E. Butterworth Doctoral Research Award. For a full list of this year's award winners, click here

Are New Yorkers Satisfied with the Public Education in their Communities? John Sipple and Robin Blakely present their findings in the January 2008 edition of The Rural New York Minute
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Professor John Sipple, Lisa McCabe, and Judith Ross-Berstein co-authored The Capacity of Early Childhood Care & Education in Rural New York State
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Professor Barbara Crawford and doctoral students Robert Humphrey and Xenia Meyer are designing innovative curricula to help diverse students learn about evolution and science inquiry by using authentic fossil samples
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Professor Deborah Trumbull and the Department of Physics' Rob Thorne have spearheaded successful efforts to obtain funding from the PhysTEC consortium
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Contact Information

Mailing Address:
Department of Education
Cornell University 
433 Kennedy Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853

Phone:
Main Office: (607) 255-2207
Undergraduate Office: (607) 255-4278
Graduate Field Office: (607) 255-4278
FAX: (607) 255-7905

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Faculty Highlight

Troy A Richardson
Assistant Professor

Troy A Richardson

Overview

Troy Richardson works in the area of philosophy of education, employing Continental and Indigenous philosophical traditions to the question of building more ethical and hospitable relationships across cultural differences. His primary research focus is in multicultural education, where he... Read More

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Student Spotlights
  • Scott Campbell

    Scott Campbell

    I became interested in how relative levels of access to pre-engineering experiences - particularly, FIRST Robotics - positions students from specific backgrounds for success or failure as novice engineers

  • Ranjini Govender

    Ranjini Govender

    My particular focus is in education law as it relates to public policy. Specifically, I am interested in the issue of desegregation and the constitutional framework within which policy decisions are made.

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