Today, one in ten students in the U.S. has a Mexican-born parent. One in seven has a Mexican-born grandparent. With these proportions, improving schooling for these children is imperative for all Americans.
BYU teacher education professor Bryant Jensen recently co-edited a book about the Mexican-American education crisis, in collaboration with scholars from Mexico and across the U.S. The book, “Regarding Educación: Mexican-American Schooling, Immigration, and Bi-national Improvement,” offers two suggestions to …

When implementing school interventions, ongoing evaluation as to whether the treatment outcomes are acceptable, socially relevant, and useful to the students and teachers, is necessary to understand the intervention’s impact. This is called social validity and it’s an important factor in a school selecting interventions, especially a behavior support program, where there are a wide variety of choices.
Michelle Marchant and Melissa Heath, associate professors in the Department of Counseling Psychology …

Children with disabilities often struggle with reading, and the McKay School is preparing special education teachers who will be able to teach children with disabilities to read and help them retain their reading skills.
Two professors in the Department of Counseling Psychology and Special Education, Mary Ann Prater and JoAnn Munk, recently contributed a chapter to a book on training teachers to teach literacy skills. Their chapter focuses on the summer …

Most IP&T seminars take the form of lectures. But Jeff Keith began his presentation by showing a video clip displaying a large class of university students in a traditional rigid classroom setting, but with no professor, silently holding up notebooks or laptop screens with revealing comments about their education. One screen read, “I buy $100 textbooks that I never open,” while a girl held up a piece of notebook paper …