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Media contact: Diane Cormany, 612-626-5650 or
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Featured publications
Connect magazine
 Fall
2009
Goldy gets studious
Supporting quality teachers
What makes a good teacher? How can quality teachers help students
improve learning and student outcomes? Parents, educators, and policy
makers want to know.
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Ask and You Shall Receive
Engaged learners are successful learners. But how do teachers
ensure that a class of beginning readers become enthusiastic,
proficient readers? It may be a matter of asking the right
questions.
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Before ABC
Professor Scott McConnell (educational psychology) has created tools
that allow any childcare provider or educator to assess each child's
progress in the development needed to become a successful reader.
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Transforming teaching for immigrant adolescents
Second languages and cultures professor Martha Bigelow's
extensive involvement with the Twin Cities Somali community has
informed her research and outreach. Over the years, her engagement
has led to discoveries concerning second-language acquisition by
learners with limited native print literacy, as well as the role of
social capital for immigrants in school settings.
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Program fosters collaboration between corrections, advocates,
communities
While many organizations offer support to former prisoners or to
domestic violence victims, few recognize the intersections between the
two groups and their concerns. Since 2003 the School of Social Work’s
Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community has
worked to strengthen programs for intimate partners of former prisoners.
Its Safe Return Initiative focuses specifically on preventing domestic
violence in communities and families living with newly released
prisoners. [Continue reading
PartnersWork]
Annual Report
 Transforming how higher education serves the
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