BORASI INAUGURATED AS WARNER DEAN

Raffaella Borasi, a nationally recognized leader in mathematics education and school reform, was formally invested as dean of the Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development last fall.

Borasi, who joined the Warner School faculty in 1985, had been serving as acting dean since 2000.

The holder of the Frederica Warner Chair in Education, she is the author of a 1996 book, Reconceiving Mathematics Instruction: A Focus on Error, and is coauthor of Reading Counts: Expanding the Role of Reading in Mathematics Classrooms.

Since being named dean, Borasi has launched a Center for Professional Development and Education Reform, a program to offer high-quality professional development programs for area educators and educational leaders.

As part of the ceremonies inducting Borasi, Glenda Lappan, a national policymaker in the field of mathematics education, delivered the 2001 Scandling Lecture at the Warner School and received the University's George Eastman Medal for excellence.

A University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University and the former president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Lappan is codirector of the Connected Mathematics Project, funded by the National Science Foundation.

The Scandling Lecture Series is funded by William Scandling in memory of his late first wife, Margaret Warner Scandling '44. The school was named in Margaret Warner Scandling's honor in 1993 in recognition of William Scandling's many gifts to the University.

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