The twelfth annual conference of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE) was held in January 2008 in Tulsa, OK.

The Elementary and Secondary Education Programs will be holding an information session for the Loudoun campus programs. This session will be held at the Mason Loudoun Campus in Sterling, VA. To find directions to the campus please visit: http://loudoun.gmu.edu

Being a scientist is hard work. You have to deal with equipment failures, time constraints and problems with your colleagues — and that’s all before lunch period.

That's what sixth graders at Manassas Park Middle School in Manassas Park, Va., are discovering this year.

Michael Behrmann Receives Award

Michael Behrmann, director of the Kellar Institute for Human disAbilities and professor in the Graduate School of Education, has devoted his career to generating new ideas and concepts in technology, improving services to children and developing innovative personnel preparation programs.

Imagine being one of the nearly 600 million people in the world living with a disability. Your day-to-day life could be very different from those around you, and it’s quite possible you feel misunderstood by others who have preconceived notions about what it means to be a person with a disability.

Early Childhood Education faculty, Drs. Monimalika Day, Eva Thorp, Julie Kidd, and Susan Burns, have been awarded a U.S. Department of Education grant from 2007 to 2011 to provide tuition and stipend support for students pursuing their Master’s degree and Virginia licensure in Early Childhood Special Education.

The Tom Haggai and Associates (THA) Foundation was founded by Dr. Thomas Haggai with the purpose of providing assistance “so young people would be prepared to help the youth of our country.” As a recipient of various scholarships and grants to fund his education, Dr.

Mason researchers Jean B. Moore and Carol Kaffenberger have each spent a large part of their careers trying to make life better for children with cancer. Now they have joined forces and are working on the Student Reentry Project, which examines how students who have cancer and their school systems are affected.

University Professors Margo Mastropieri and Thomas Scruggs in Mason’s Graduate School of Education have dedicated much of their research careers to studying how students with special needs learn.

In 2006, the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) adopted five core values on which to focus: collaboration, ethical leadership, innovation, research-based practice and social justice. Jeff Gorrell, dean of CEHD, is recruiting national scholars to work with faculty to advance each core value over the next few years.

Early Childhood Education faculty, Drs. Thorp, Kidd, Burns, and Sánchez have been awarded a federal grant from 2007 to 2011 to provide tuition and stipend support for doctoral students to develop research and leadership skills related to culturally, linguistically diverse young children with disabilities.

With the help of international grant coordinator Susan Graziano, Mason recently received two separate grants that will strengthen already-existing foreign language programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

One of the grants will enable students to pursue an 18-credit minor in Arabic language and culture.

In Burundi, a landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of Africa, a lack of basic necessities is common. Emerging from more than 12 years of civil war, the country also lacks educational resources.

The Arc of Northern Virginia, a disability organization that advocates on behalf of Virginians with intellectual, cognitive and related developmental disabilities and their families, will present awards Michael Behrmann, director of Mason's Helen A.

CEHD faculty, Margo Mastropieri and Thomas Scruggs were named by George Mason University as University Professors.

Mathematics Education faculty and students traveled to Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, for the annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME-NA).