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McKay School Alum Returns as New IP&T Faculty Member

As he was growing up, Rick West attended merit badge powwows on the BYU campus. In 2002 he returned to Provo as a master’s student in the Department of Instructional Psychology and Technology (IP&T). Today he is the department’s newest faculty member. “I’m excited to be back,” West remarked. As an educator, West seeks...

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CPSE Undergraduates Benefit from Collaborating with Professors on Research

Undergraduate students in the McKay School of Education are assisting professors with real research, an opportunity highly valued in the McKay school and encouraged and subsidized throughout BYU. In February of this year alone, students from the Department of Counseling Psychology and Special Education (CPSE) made seven presentations on research they...

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Wheatley Institution Lecturer Highlights Teacher Turnover Trends

Teacher turnover is becoming an increasing concern in the United States. Every year more than 600,000 teachers move to another profession, retire, or change schools, according to Dr. Richard Ingersoll of the University of Pennsylvania. Ingersoll was a guest lecturer at a forum presented by the Wheatley Institution, an organization with strong ties...

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