Rider University’s Center for Reading and Writing got a boost recently when it was awarded a $10,000 grant funded by Verizon’s Check Into Literacy program. The Center for Reading and Writing is an innovative program designed to provide practical experience to graduate students studying to become reading specialists. It was established in 1980 by Dr. Susan Mandel Glazer, professor and coordinator of Reading/Language Arts, who remains the director of the Center. More

At first glance, you might not picture Shana Bluestein on the set of The Learning Channel’s What Not to Wear. A sharp dresser, Bluestein does not need any style tips from the show’s hosts, fashion gurus Stacy London (pictured above at left with Bluestein) and Clinton Kelly. Rather, the junior Management and Leadership major commuted to Manhattan three days a week this fall for the chance to intern at one of her favorite shows. More

Many moviegoers recall the poignancy of seeing Anne Sullivan make a startling intellectual connection with the blind and deaf Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker. Dr. Michele Wilson Kamens recalls the scene not only for its emotional drama, but as a breakthrough moment in her own life. Kamens, a professor of Special Education at Rider University, knew at that instant that her own professional course was set. More

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  Student Teachers Learn 'On the Job'
  It was John Cotton Dana, a giant of education in the lore of New Jersey, who said, “Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.” For the past two years, a number of Teacher Education students at Rider University have had the opportunity to simultaneously do both while enriching the minds of underprivileged children in Trenton.
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