Nell Duke, associate professor of teacher education and educational psychology

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Six College of Education faculty members were honored with special awards during the 2009 American Educational Research Association annual meeting April 13-17 in San Diego. More than 14,000 education research scholars were expected to attend the conference, which featured opportunities to present and learn about the latest research on wide-ranging education topics.

Nell K. Duke, associate professor of teacher education and educational psychology, will be presented with the 2009 AERA Early Career Award. The prestigious honor recognizes a scholar’s distinguished portfolio of cumulative research within the first decade after receiving a doctoral degree. Duke, who earned her doctorate in education from Harvard in 1999, has served as co-director of MSU’s Literacy Achievement Research Center – the nation’s largest literacy research center – since its inception more than five years ago. Her own work focuses on early literacy development, particularly among children living in poverty. Specifically, she has expertise in the development of informational literacies in young children, comprehension development and instruction in early schooling, and issues of equity in literacy education.

University Distinguished Professors Jere Brophy (teacher education and educational psychology) and William Schmidt (education and statistics), along with professor emeritus Joe Byers, were selected as inaugural fellows in the AERA Fellows Program, which is intended to recognize American Educational Research Association members who have made sustained, outstanding research contributions.

Associate professor of teacher education Angela Calabrese Barton will be honored by Division G of AERA, which focuses on the Social Context of Education, with the 2009 Research Leading to the Transformation of the Social Contexts of Education Award. A team of scholars from across the country nominated Calabrese Barton for producing a body of research that has made an impact on the fields of science education and multicultural education.

Associate professor of teacher education Elizabeth Heilman’s recent book, Reclaiming Education for Democracy: Thinking Beyond No Child Left Behind with Paul Shaker, received the 2009 Exemplary Research in Teaching and Teacher Education Award from Division K of AERA, which focuses on Teaching and Teacher Education.

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