http://education.ucsc.edu News from Education at UC Santa Cruz - Headlines http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=3106 A team of UC researchers creates a new approach to assessing student vocabulary.... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=3090 Four research programs headquartered at UC Santa Cruz have received awards in the 2009 UC Multi-Campus Research Programs and Initiatives Competition (MRPI). ... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=3054 UCSC has approved a new major in physics education to prepare students for California teaching credentials and teaching careers in science and mathematics at the high school level.... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2531 Aspiring teachers will learn cutting-edge techniques for teaching science to young children in a collaboration led by UC Santa Cruz.... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2446 The 44th president will have tremendous challenges before him. UCSC experts offer their advice on topics ranging from education to climate change.... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2421 Regional schools in need of qualified math and science teachers will benefit from a $750,000 grant to UCSC from the National Science Foundation's Robert Noyce Teacher Scholars Program.... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2390 Dictionaries in the classroom may go the way of typewriters if researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have their way.... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2085 Aspiring teachers come to the profession with a wealth of life experience that shapes their training, their work in the classroom, and their longevity in the occupation, says the author of the new... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=1703 The new Martin M. Chemers Award for Outstanding Research in the Division of Social Sciences recognizes senior faculty members who have made major impacts through their research.... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=1570 The New Teacher Center has launched a new initiative to boost student performance in mathematics by providing an online network for beginning math teachers....