Literacy Expert Louisa Moats Draws Over 200 Teachers From Across the State

American College of Education announces that more than 200 Indiana reading and literacy teachers attended a professional development conference at the Indianapolis Convention Center on Oct. 24 featuring literacy expert Louisa Moats, Ed.D. The Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) and Wilson Education Center collaborated with the online college in sponsoring the day-long program, “Teaching Reading Is Rocket Science.”

Dr. Moats, founder of the LETRS(R) (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) Louisa Moats Literacy Academy, discussed code-based instruction, spelling phonology and teaching vocabulary, basing her presentation on Scientifically Based Reading Research (SBRR) and real-world experience.

Support for improved teaching methods includes statistics showing that 11 to 17 percent of children are affected by dyslexia, nearly 40 percent of fourth graders are at the national “below basic” reading level, and up to 80 percent of high poverty students are at risk of failing.

Recent data from the College Board further stresses the need for advances in teaching reading, reporting that scores on the critical reading portion of the 2011 SAT college entrance exam resulted in the lowest level on record. The cohort of test takers was the largest and most diverse in history.

“Teachers from across the state of Indiana were engrossed in the depth of Dr. Moats’ knowledge and her research-based presentation,” said Sandra J. Doran, J.D., president of American College of Education. “Her enthusiasm and commitment to enhanced teaching of reading and comprehension skills based on common core standards encouraged many teachers seeking to improve their students’ success.”

K-6 reading teachers have the opportunity to enroll in “The Foundations of Reading Instruction,” a five-week, graduate-level, online professional development course offered by American College of Education. Designed by Dr. Moats the course begins on November 28 and is the first in a new course sequence leading to a Master’s in Education in Curriculum and Instruction with a Louisa Moats Literacy Concentration. Teachers may enroll at http://wesc.k12.in.us/fotr.htm by November 21. For more information about this course and other graduate-level courses offered by American College of Education, visit American College of Education live chat or call 1-800.280.0307.

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The University is organized into two undergraduate and eight graduate schools. The undergraduate student body comes from all 50 U.S. states and 106 countries. In its 2009 edition, U.S. News & World Report ranked the university’s undergraduate program eighth among national universities, while ranking the medical, law, and business schools among the top 12 in the country. Duke University was ranked as the thirteenth best university in the world in the 2008 THES – QS World University Rankings of universities worldwide.

Duke’s research expenditures are among the largest 20 in the U.S. and its athletic program is one of the nation’s elite. Competing in the Atlantic Coast Conference, the athletic teams have won ten national championships, including three by the men’s basketball team.

Besides academics, research, and athletics, Duke is also well known for its sizable campus and Gothic architecture, especially the Duke Chapel. The forests surrounding parts of the campus belie the University’s proximity to downtown Durham. Duke’s 8,610 acres (35 km²) contain three contiguous campuses in Durham as well as a marine lab in Beaufort. Construction projects have updated both the freshmen-populated Georgian-style East Campus and the main Gothic-style West Campus, as well as the adjacent Medical Center over the past five years.

Duke University
Latin: Universitas Dukiana
Motto: Eruditio et Religio
Motto in English: Knowledge and Faith
Established: 1838
Type: Private
Endowment: $4 billion (May 2009)[1]
President: Richard H. Brodhead
Faculty: 2,877
Students: 13,457
Undergraduates: 6,340
Postgraduates: 7,117
Location: Durham, North Carolina, US
36°0′4″N 78°56′20″W / 36.00111°N 78.93889°W / 36.00111; -78.93889Coordinates: 36°0′4″N 78°56′20″W / 36.00111°N 78.93889°W / 36.00111; -78.93889
Campus: Urban
8,610 acres (34.8 km2)
Former names: Brown School (1838–1841)
Union Institute (1841–1851)
Normal College (1851–1859)
Trinity College (1859–1924)
Colors: Duke blue and white

Nickname: Blue Devils
Athletics: NCAA Division I FBS
26 varsity teams
Affiliations: AAU, ACC, UMC
Website: www.duke.edu
Latin text from university archives. Population data for fall 2007; financial data for FY07. UMC ties historic and symbolic, but governance-independent.

Princeton University has traditionally focused on undergraduate education, although it has almost 2,500 graduate students enrolled. A unique blend of research university and liberal arts, Princeton does not offer professional schooling generally, but it does offer professional master’s degrees (mostly through the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) and doctoral programs in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences, as well as engineering.

Founded in 1746 at Elizabeth, New Jersey, as the College of New Jersey, it was moved to Newark in 1747, then to Princeton in 1756 and renamed “Princeton University” in 1896. (The present-day The College of New Jersey in nearby Ewing, New Jersey, is an unrelated institution.)

Princeton was the fourth institution of higher education in the U.S. to conduct classes.The university, unlike most American universities that were founded at the same time, did not have an official religious affiliation. At one time, it had close ties to the Presbyterian Church, but today it is nonsectarian and makes no religious demands of its students.The university has ties with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the Westminster Choir College of Rider University.

Princeton University
Latin: Universitas Princetoniensis
Motto: Dei sub numine viget (Latin)
Motto in English: Under God’s power she flourishes
Established: 1746
Type: Private
Endowment: US$16.3 billion
President: Shirley M. Tilghman
Faculty: 1044
Staff: 1,103
Students: 7,334
Undergraduates: 4,918
Postgraduates: 2,416
Location: Borough of Princeton,
Princeton Township,
and Plainsboro, New Jersey, USA
Campus: Suburban, 600 acres (2.4 km2)
(Princeton Borough and Township
Former names: College of New Jersey (1746-1756)
Athletics: 38 sports teams
Colors: Orange and Black
Mascot: Tigers
Affiliations: MAISA; AAU
Website: www.princeton.edu

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Initially called “New College” or “the college at New Towne”, the institution was renamed Harvard College on March 13, 1639. It was named after a young clergyman named John Harvard, who bequeathed the College his library of four hundred books and £779 (which was half of his estate). The earliest known official reference to Harvard as a “university” occurs in the new Massachusetts Constitution of 1780.

During his 40-year tenure as Harvard president (1869–1909), Charles William Eliot radically transformed Harvard into the pattern of the modern research university. Eliot’s reforms included elective courses, small classes, and entrance examinations. The Harvard model influenced American education nationally, at both college and secondary levels.

Harvard is consistently ranked at or near the top of international college and university rankings, and has the second-largest financial endowment of any non-profit organization (behind the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), standing at $28.8 billion as of 2008. Harvard and Yale have been rivals in academics, rowing, and football for most of their history, competing annually in The Game and the Harvard-Yale Regatta.

Harvard University
Seal of Harvard University
Motto: Veritas
Motto in English: Truth
Established: September 8, 1636 (OS)
September 18, 1636 (NS)
Type: Private
Endowment: USD $36.9 billion
President: Drew Gilpin Faust
Faculty: about 2,401
Staff: 2,497 non-medical
10,674 medical
Students: 19,140
Undergraduates: 6,714
Postgraduates: 12,422
Location: Cambridge, MA, USA
Campus: Urban
380 acres (1.5 km2)
Newspaper: The Harvard Crimson
Colors: Crimson
Mascot: John Harvard
Athletics: 41 Varsity Teams
Ivy League
NCAA Division I
Harvard Crimson
Website: www.harvard.edu

It is served by the Tenleytown-AU station on the Washington Metro subway line, which is located roughly one mile from the main campus in the neighborhood of Tenleytown. AU is a member of the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area, allowing students to enroll in courses offered by other member institutions and students at other member institutions to enroll in courses at AU. A member of the Division I Patriot League, its sports teams compete as the American University Eagles.

American University
Motto: Pro deo et patria
(For God and Country)
Established: February 24, 1893
Type: Private
Endowment: $265 million
President: Cornelius M. Kerwin
Provost: Scott A. Bass
Faculty: 600 full time, 420 adjunct
Undergraduates: 6,001
Postgraduates: 2,269 (1,398 law)
Location: Washington, D.C.
Campus: Urban 84 acre (34 ha)
Study Abroad: 470 programs
Colors: AU Red and AU Blue
Mascot: Eagle
Athletics: Eagles
Affiliations: APSIA; NCAA Division I, Patriot League; IAMSCU; CUWMA; MAISA
Website: www.american.edu

The university attracts students from all 50 U.S. states and 93 countries and was named one of the “New Ivies” by Newsweek in 2006. Peer institutions of Carnegie Mellon include Caltech, Cornell, Duke, Emory, Georgia Tech, MIT, Northwestern, Princeton, Rice, RPI, Stanford, Penn and Washington University. Carnegie Mellon is affiliated with at least 15 Nobel laureates.

The university began as the Carnegie Technical Schools, founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1900. In 1912, the school became Carnegie Institute of Technology and began granting four-year degrees. In 1967, the Carnegie Institute of Technology merged with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research to form Carnegie Mellon University. The University’s 140-acre (0.57 km2) main campus is 3 miles (4.8 km) from Downtown Pittsburgh and abuts the campus of the University of Pittsburgh in the city’s Oakland neighborhood.

Carnegie Mellon has seven colleges and schools: the Carnegie Institute of Technology (engineering), the College of Fine Arts, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Mellon College of Science, the Tepper School of Business, the School of Computer Science, and the H. John Heinz III College.

Carnegie Mellon University
Motto: “My heart is in the work.” Andrew Carnegie
Established: 1900 by Andrew Carnegie
Type: Private university
Endowment: US $1.068 billion (June 30, 2008)
President: Jared Cohon
Faculty: 1,012
Undergraduates: 5,892
Postgraduates: 5,066
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Campus: Urban, 144 acres (58 ha)
Colors: Cardinal, Gray, and Tartan Plaid
Nickname: Tartans
Mascot: Scotty the Scottie Dog
Athletics: NCAA Division III UAA
17 varsity teams
Website: www.cmu.edu

Founded by William Barton Rogers in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, the university adopted the German university model and emphasized laboratory instruction from an early date. Its current 168-acre (68.0 ha) campus opened in 1916 and extends over 1 mile (1.6 km) along the northern bank of the Charles River basin. MIT researchers were involved in efforts to develop computers, radar, and inertial guidance in connection with defense research during World War II and the Cold War. In the past 60 years, MIT’s educational programs have expanded beyond the physical sciences and engineering into social sciences like economics, philosophy, linguistics, political science, and management.

MIT enrolled 4,172 undergraduates, 6,048 postgraduate students, and employed 1,008 faculty members in the 2007/08 school year. Its endowment and annual research expenditures are among the largest of any American university. 73 Nobel Laureates, 47 National Medal of Science recipients, and 31 MacArthur Fellows are currently or have previously been affiliated with the university.

The Engineers sponsor 33 sports, most of which compete in the NCAA Division III’s New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference; the Division I rowing programs compete as part of the EARC and EAWRC. While students’ irreverence is widely acknowledged due to the traditions of constructing elaborate pranks and engaging in esoteric activities, the aggregated revenues of companies founded by MIT affiliates would make it the seventeenth largest economy in the world.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Motto: Mens et Manus
Motto in English: Mind and Hand
Established: 1861 (opened 1865)
Type: Private
Endowment: US $10.068 billion
Chancellor: Phillip Clay
President: Susan Hockfield
Provost: L. Rafael Reif
Faculty: 1,008
Students: 10,220
Undergraduates: 4,172
Postgraduates: 6,048
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Campus: Urban, 168 acres (68.0 ha)
Nobel Laureates: 73
Colors: Cardinal Red and Steel Gray
Mascot: Beaver
Athletics: Division III (except for Rowing)
33 varsity teams
Affiliations: NEASC, AAU, COFHE, NASULGC
Website: web.mit.edu

Stanford was founded in 1885 by former California governor and senator Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford, as a memorial to their son Leland Stanford Jr., who died of typhoid in Europe a few weeks before his 16th birthday. The Stanfords used their farm lands to establish the university hoping to create a large institution in California.

Stanford enrolls about 6,700 undergraduate and about 8,000 graduate students from the United States and around the world every year. The university is divided into a number of schools such as the Stanford Business School, Stanford Law School, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford School of Engineering, etc.

The university is in Silicon Valley, and its alumni have founded companies like Nike, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Nvidia, Yahoo!, Cisco Systems, Silicon Graphics and Google.

Stanford University
Motto: Die Luft der Freiheit weht
(German)
Motto in English: The wind of freedom blows
Established: 1885
Type: Private
Endowment: $17.2 billion
President: John L. Hennessy
Provost: John Etchemendy
Faculty: 1,807
Students: 14,945
Undergraduates: 6,759
Postgraduates: 8,186
Location: Stanford, CA, U.S.
Campus: Suburban, 8,180 acres (33.1 km2)[6]
Athletic nickname: Stanford Cardinal
Colors: Cardinal red and white
Mascot: The color Cardinal red (official), Stanford Tree (unofficial)
Athletics: NCAA Division I (FBS) Pac-10
Website: www.stanford.edu

Michigan and Connecticut are the latest two states which reported their first deaths on Wednesday.

The Michigan Department of Community Health has confirmed that the state’s first death of A/H1N1 flu involved a 53-year-old woman, who died on Tuesday in a hospital in Macomb County after being sick for more than two weeks.

“This is sad and unfortunate. But, at the same time, we do expect a number of deaths (nationally) following the infection from this virus,” James McCurtis, a spokesman for the department, said on Wednesday.

As of Wednesday, Michigan reported 298 confirmed cases of A/H1N1 flu statewide, comparing to 287 cases released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on its website.

Meanwhile, the Connecticut Department of Public Health on Wednesday announced that a resident aged over 50 has become the first person in the state to die from the A/H1N1 flu.

Confirmed cases of the A/H1N1 flu in the state has jumped to 397, almost double the figure of 197 released by the CDC on its website, the department said.

Officials said the actual number might be much higher because many people with mild symptoms do not go to a doctor or hospital.

New York and Illinois are the two states which reported on Wednesday more deaths from the A/H1N1 flu virus. The New York health department said that two more New Yorkers have been killed by the virus, bringing the state’s death toll to seven.

In Chicago, Illinois Department of Public Health spokeswoman Melaney Arnold declared that a 22-year-old Chicago woman has died from complications of the A/H1N1 flu one day after she gave birth, bringing the number of Illinois deaths related to the virus to four.

The state health department has reported 1,268 confirmed cases of the A/H1N1 flu statewide, comparing to 1,151 cases released by the CDC on its website on Wednesday.

Nationwide, the CDC has reported 17 deaths from the A/H1N1 virus in seven states, not including four deaths reported by local health officials on Tuesday — the first two deaths in California, the first death in Virginia and the fifth death in New York.

On Wednesday, the CDC also reported 11,054 confirmed cases of the A/H1N1 flu in all 51 states.

The agency anticipates more cases, hospitalizations and deaths associated with this new virus in the coming days and weeks.