Research

Reading and Language Arts Center

The Reading and Language Arts Center serves as a coordinating agency for the improvement of literacy instruction and literacy teacher education from the undergraduate through the doctoral levels.

The Center’s faculty provides graduate programs and courses within the Department of Curriculum and Instruction that offer concentrations in reading and language arts, including programs that lead to state certifications.

It is the intent of the Reading-Language Arts Center faculty to develop professionals with leadership potential who are prepared to improve reading and language arts instruction in Connecticut’s schools.

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Recent Department Headlines

Researchers with the Neag School’s Center for Education Policy Analysis, Research, and Evaluation prepared the following research brief regarding year-round schooling

High school students submitted short essays or videos explaining why they want to become urban educators

The gift from Judy Sarna and her late husband, Morris, is the largest gift from a single, private donor that the Neag School of Education has received in the past 25 years

The editor-reviewed, open-access, annual journal is founded and run by graduate students at the Neag School and has published three articles in its Spring 2025 issue