The University of Michigan School of Education is the education school of the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

and is located in

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(the

University of Michigan–Dearborn The University of Michigan–Dearborn (U of M Dearborn, UM–Dearborn, or UMD) is a public university in Dearborn, Michigan. It is one of the two regional universities operating under the policies of the University of Michigan Board of Regents, ...

and the

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, while technically connected to the main Ann Arbor campus in small ways, operate completely separate education schools on their own campuses). The School of Education offers undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees. In 2011, U.S. News & World Report (USN&WR) ranked the school 9th overall. Within the school, specific programs ranked among USNWR's top-ten in six other areas: elementary education, secondary education, educational psychology (th
Combined Program in Education and Psychology
, higher education (th
Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education
, curriculum/instruction, and educational policy.

History

The School of Education can be traced to the first charter of the

ia, approved by the territorial government in 1817, which initially gave the university control over the state's entire system of public instruction. Although this arrangement was changed, the links between the university and the state's schools were firmly established. In the spring of 1879, the Regents of the university created the Chair of the Science and Art of Teaching, the first full-time, permanent professorial chair in any American college or university devoted exclusively to the preparation of teachers. This regental act recognized the fact that many university students would become teachers and school administrators and that without instruction in education they would not be prepared for their work. John Dewey spent the years 1884–1894 at the

and while not directly involved in the education program he left his imprint on the university and was instrumental in launching the State of Michigan school accreditation program. {{Authority control

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