Welcome to the Department of Education
Welcome to the Department of Education's website. Here you will find information on all of our academic programs (including those offered on the Manchester campus), and profiles of our wonderful faculty and staff. The Education Department is proud of the long tradition we have established in preparing high quality professionals in a variety of instructional areas and specializations.
From our Chair:
The University of New Hampshire Education Department has a long history of excellence in scholarship, teaching, and professional preparation. Our website provides an overview of our programs and faculty. I also invite you to visit our department to learn more about our work and about becoming a classroom teacher, special educator, school counselor, reading specialist, administrator, researcher or professor. Read more...
Please visit our links at the right. For master’s degree, certification, and certificate program information, please follow the link labeled with your program area of interest. For Ph.D. information, please follow the Ph.D. link. Should you need additional information, do not hesitate to contact us.
Over 700 family and friends turned out to watch 120 of our graduating students at our 2012 Graduation Celebration which took place on Friday, May 18, 2012! Click here to watch the video...
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Professor Judy Sharkey receives the 2011 Kimball Award on October 28, 2011 from Department Chair Michael Middleton.
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The Educational Testing Service (ETS) recently released the Title ll Pass Rates Reports for the 2010-2011 academic year. University of New Hampshire Department of Education Teacher Preparation students had an overall passing rate of 97% for all Praxis tests as compared to a statewide passing rate of 92%. Congratulations to All!!!! Click here to see the report....
 Constance Valdés, one of our students, is the lead story in Campus Connections! Click here to read her story.....
Nominations are now being accepted for the Ann L. Loranger Outstanding Mentor Teacher of the Year award.
Click here for more information and the nomination form....
Read Policy Brief #12-02 Amending The New Hampshire Constitution (CACR12): Education Will No Longer Be Fundamental To The Citizens Of New Hampshire on our WIKI
Has anyone ever told you that you're a good listener? Have you ever thought about working in a school, but you don't want to be a teacher? Come to an information session for the Graduate Program in Counseling! Click here for more information...
On January 4, 2012, the New Hampshire House of Representatives on a vote of 255-112 and the Senate on a vote of 17-5 were successful in overriding Governor John
Lynch’s (D) veto of HB 5423 . This veto override took effect immediately and (a) allows parents to file an objection to any course material, (b) requires a school district to devise an alternative acceptable to the parent, and (c) the alternative must enable the child to
still meet state requirements for education in the particular subject area of the objection.
Click on our Wikispaces link above to read Policy Brief # 12-01 HB 542 and Parental Control: "Shredding" the Public School Curriculum by Professors Todd DeMitchell and Joseph Onosko which analyzes this law, and add your comments!
Patrick Boodey,one of our graduates and one of our Partnership School principals, has been named the 2012 NH Elementary School Principal of the Year! A wonderful and well deserved honor for one of our closest school colleagues and program graduates.
Former Ph.D. Student, Anita Charles, now a professor at Bates College, received the national Best Dissertation Award from the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum. Anita completed her dissertation, entitled 'It’s Just Part of What We Do’: Interactions with Multimodal Texts Across Social Spaces, in 2009. More about our Ph.D. program...
The National Science Foundation Noyce Scholarship Program provides annual scholarships of up to $20,000 for undergraduates and $12,000 for graduate students interested in pursuing a teaching career in math or science education. For more information see http://unh.edu/noyce/
Our own Maureen Barbieri deconstructs the film Waiting for Superman in her first in a series of guest posts on the Stenhouse Newslinks blog. Read more...
Policy Brief #11-01 Student Outcomes, Teacher Effectiveness: Raising a Cautionary Flag by Professor Todd DeMitchell and doctoral student Douglas Gagnon click here to read...
Are you wondering what our Internship Year is like? Click here to see what some of our interns have to say about their cooperating schools!>
View Professor Joe Onosko's Kimball Lecture: Obama's Race to the Top" Leaves Children and Future Citizens Behind: The Devastating Effects of Centralization, Standardization and High Stakes Accountability" Click here....
Our UNH Manchester programs and students in the news! Read more...
You can now video Skype our Education Department Coordinator/Advisor at unh-education-dept-advising
Context Matters: Professors Abrams and McConnell discuss current research. Read more...
Professor Kim Fries discusses No Child Left Behind reform on NHPTV NH Outlook....
$4,000 per year TEACH Grant available for students interested in teaching in critical shortage fields! Click here to find out more.
Our Subject Area Requirement Sheets are now available online! Please click the link in the menu on the right side of this page to get the requirement sheet(s) you need.
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