The Articles listed in this section are primarily published in University publications and deal with studies in international education.

The New Educator is published twice a year by the Office of Dean, College of Education, Michigan State University.

U.S. Middle-Grades Teachers Found Ill-Prepared in Math
December 19, 2007 by Kathleen Kennedy Manzo
The gap in teacher preparation, coupled with curricular differences, could help explain achievement disparities between American students and their peers in other industrialized nations, researchers say.
<Education Week, December 19, 2007>

Study Reveals Preparation Gap for U.S. Middle School Mathematics Teachers
by Ike Iyoke
Findings from an international study of middle school mathematics teacher preparation suggest that there is a gap in the way future teachers are prepared in the United States compared to other countries...
<New Educator, College of Education, Fall/Winter 2008, pp. 22-25>

Insight from Ireland
Ground-breaking Study Abroad Program Digs into Disability Issues by Nicole Geary
One eye doctor yelled at her when she couldn't read the test charts. She accused Melissa McQueen, then 7 years old, of faking a vision problem simply to gain attention...
<New Educator, College of Education, Fall/Winter 2008, pp. 40-41>

Looking for Truth in Tanzania
Doctoral Student Earns Fulbright-Hays Fellowship for Research on International Scholarly Collaboration by Elizabeth Wharton and Nicole Geary
When Amy Jamison's aunt and uncle invited her on a trip to Tanzania in 2000, she agreed because she was studying Swahili, the country's official language, at the time. She had already established an interest in African studies....
<New Educator, College of Education, Fall/Winter 2008, pp. 42-43>

Culture & literacy
LI’S RESEARCH BRIDGES GAP FOR IMMIGRANT STUDENTS,
AMILIES AND SCHOOLS
By Andrea Billups
When Guofang Li was a young girl, her eldest brother passed on to her a gift that would ultimately change her life. The present was a big, old radio. While she could have prized the gift as a way to listen to pop music like most youth of her generation, what most fascinated Li were not the catchy songs but the short-wave news broadcasts direct from Voice of America radio...
<New Educator, College of Education, Spring 2007, pp. 12-15>

MSU Partners with Lebanese American University
to Train Female Teachers and Students in Educational Technology
Researchers at Michigan State University are helping female teachers at the Lebanese American University (LAU) in Beirut learn how to effectively use internet technology in their classrooms, preparing them and their students to better compete in the increasingly global marketplace...
<MSU International, Volume 8, Spring 2007, p. 8>

Perfect Partnership
College of Education joins China to develop language programs as part of new Confucius Institute, led by Distinguished Professor Yong Zhao
By Andrea Billups & Victor Inzunza
<New Educator, College of Education, Fall 2006>

Cultural Classrooms
Chinese-English preschool in Beijing on the cutting edge of teaching and learning
By Victor Inzunza
Three recent College of Education graduates now call Beijing home, and they and their newest students are learning from each other...
<New Educator, College of Education, Fall 2006>

East Meets West
U.S.-China Center Research Lab creates models for excellence in education
By Victor Inzunza
Although the Confucius Institute is focused on outreach efforts, the U.S.-China Center for Education Excellence at MSU’s College of Education has emerged in recent years as a major center for research on Eastern and Western educational practices...
<New Educator, College of Education, Fall 2006>

Bridging the Gap
Collaborative Project Will Help Algeria Integrate
Teaching With Technology and Link
Its Students to America...
<New Educator, College of Education, Spring 2006>

Teacher Education Across Borders
Study seeks to understand what works and why when it comes to preparing mathematics educators...
<New Educator, College of Education, Spring 2006>

World Class
The Goldman Sachs Prize is one indication of the college’s
strong commitment to internationalizing k–12 teaching...
<New Educator, College of Education, Spring 2005>

Work with Egyptian Faculties of Education
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded the College of Education a $7 million grant to collaborate with Egyptian universities to improve the quality of teacher education programs. The five-year project is a partnership between MSU and Egyptian faculties of education in seven regions of the country...
<New Educator, College of Education, Spring 2005>

Collaborative Research Center Officially Announced in China
The College of Education has one of the strongest commitments to international education of any U.S. university. Over the years, it has been a leader in forging research and development ties throughout the country. One of the most recent of these efforts is the United States –China Center for Research on Educational Excellence...
<New Educator, College of Education, Spring 2005>

A World for the Making
In an increasingly interdependent planet, American teachers need to internationalize their teaching to help students understand and appreciate the diversity and wonder of the world around them...
>> By Jack Schwille
<New Educator, College of Education, Spring 2005>

International Schooling
Study Abroad Program Provides Teacher Education Students Opportunities to Teach and Learn About South Africa...
<New Educator, College of Education, Spring 2003>

College of Education Committed to Playing Important Role Through the World
When you think about the College of Education, your first reaction may be teacher preparation, or kinesiology, or possibly rehabilitation counseling. With its diversity of programs and faculty research and outreach interests, the college serves many constituencies...
<New Educator, College of Education, Spring 2001>

International Leadership
<New Educator, College of Education, Spring 2001>

Some Worldly Lessons About Supporting New Teachers
For years, Associate Professor Lynn Paine had followed closely the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). Paine, an expert on the Chinese educational system, was struck by the power of the influential study to galvanize public attention on the problems in U.S. mathematics and science education...
<New Educator, College of Education, Spring 2001>

TIMSS Project Finds Problems in U.S. Education
No other comparative education project in the College of Education has had the impact of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)...
<New Educator, College of Education, Spring 2001>

Researchers Find Systemic Problem in U.S. Mathematics and Science Education
When MSU Distinguished Professor William Schmidt and his colleagues released the various achievement results of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (timss) in the mid-1990s, the image of American students that emerged was stark...
<New Educator, College of Education, Fall 2000>

Academic and K-12 Outreach Play Key Roles in Making Research and Acadmeic programs Available throughout Michigan and the World...
<New Educator, College of Education, Spring 2000>

Overseas Program Makes Graduate Education Possible for Many Teachers
The Graduate Studies in Education Overseas (GSEO) program has been a key component of the university's and college's academic outreach efforts for 20 years...
<New Educator, College of Education, Spring 2000>

LATTICE Linking Teachers and International Students
The idea was simple enough: Get Lansing area teachers and international graduate students together to discuss issues of interest to both...
<New Educator, College of Education, Fall 1999>

MSU Office of International Studies in Education Supports Multiple Initiatives

LATTICE Links K-12 Teachers with Cross-Cultural Education