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One Student at a Time

Purdue’s College of Education revamps its curriculum to boost enrollment and fix Indiana’s teacher shortage Amy Leeson (MS LA’76) decorated her fifth-grade classroom at Thorntown Elementary School in Thorntown, Indiana, with posters of John Denver and peppered her students’ papers with his quotes (“Far Out!”). Throughout her three-decade career in the classroom, she encouraged her […]

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Soldier Stories

Uncovering the lives and awarding the heroics of Indiana’s war dead In 1992, two high school girls in Tom Clark’s (BA’82) history class tracked down the family of Corporal William Perdue, as part of a class research project into the lives of fallen soldiers. A marine, Perdue perished in Vietnam in 1968. Clark called Cpl. […]