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Mentoring program: Key to addressing teacher retention

Erikah Haavie in Furman's Department of Education contributes an article in Greenville Business Magazine about how the university prepares teacher candidates and supports early career educators. Among the strategies employed to stem low retention rates...

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Department of Education news

Professor Paul Thomas presents multiple sessions at the annual NCTE meeting Education Professor Paul Thomas presented eight seminars during the 2019 National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention Nov. 21-24 in Baltimore, Maryland. Session...

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Jessica Patterson ’07 named SC Elementary Principal of the Year

Jessica Patterson, a 2007 Furman University graduate (M.Ed) and principal at Chastain Road Elementary School, has been named South Carolina's Elementary Principal of the Year by the South Carolina Association of School Administrators. Her six...

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Two alumni win NCTE Early Career Educator of Color Leadership Awards

Two Furman University alumni have received the Early Career Educator of Color Leadership Award from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) – Brianna Burnette '18 of Greer, South Carolina, and Daniel Christian Hoilett...

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The Greenville story of Troy Terry

Furman Executive Director for Graduate and Evening Studies Troy Terry has a passion for literacy and service-learning. The Lowcountry native and Clemson University graduate reveals other hobbies, interests and a little-known claim to fame in...

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Education professor Paul Thomas co-edits collection of essays

[caption id="attachment_35583" align="alignright" width="297"] Paul L. Thomas co-edits new book.[/caption] Furman Department of Education professor Paul L. Thomas has co-edited a new collection of essays, Critical Media Literacy and Fake News in Post-Truth America (Brill/Sense)....

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