Florida State Professor Examines Teacher Preparation Programs
Tim Sass
Tim Sass, the Charles and Joan Haworth Professor of Labor Economics at Florida State University, will give a lecture Friday, Oct. 28, titled "Teacher Preparation Programs: Do They Produce Superior Teachers and Are Some Programs Better than Others?"
The lecture will begin at noon in Room 343 of the Graduate Education Building on the University of Arkansas campus. Sass is also a research associate with the Urban Institute's Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research.
The lecture is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the department of education reform.
RSVP online for lunch.
Contacts
Heidi Wells, director of communications
College of Education and Health Professions
479-575-3138,
heidisw@uark.edu
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