Education News and Events

• Events on this page take place at Brandeis University and are sponsored by Brandeis affiliates. Other non-Brandeis events of interest to educators appear on our Resources page.
  
  
• Marya Levenson, Professor of the Practice in Education and Harry S. Levitan Director of Education, has been awarded the 2008 Louis Dembitz Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching. The prize "honors an individual who is involved in the co-curricular and extra-curricular life of the campus, and more importantly, has had a significant impact on students' lives as an exceptional teacher, mentor, advisor and friend." Each year since 1986, Brandeis students, faculty and alumni have been invited to nominate outstanding faculty for this prize.
  
  
• Levitan Professor and Education Program Director Marya Levenson's article, "A Standards Base and the Three New R's" appeared in the September 2007 edition of SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR magazine. "Schools have a duty to emphasize the skills and values children need for lifelong learning and participation in American democracy," and she considers "the usefulness of three new R's: Responsibility, Reflectiveness and Resilience."
  
  
• Professors Sharon Feiman-Nemser, Director of the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education, Dirck Roosevelt, Director of the Master of Arts in Teaching Program, and Helen Featherstone, Visiting Professor of Education, are three of the five authors of TRANSFORMING TEACHER EDUCATION: Reflections from the Field, published by Harvard Education Press. The book is described as "an intimate, reflective account of the development of the renowned Team One...program at Michigan State University which established a first-rate reputation as a beacon of progressive teacher education."