• The Rutgers University Graduate School of Education is dedicated to the study and improvement of education.
  • The creation of knowledge about teaching and learning is central to our mission.
  • Rutgers seeks to ensure that all children and adults have access to high quality educational programs.
  • As such, their work addresses the cognitive, social, organizational, cultural, linguistic, developmental, and policy dimensions of education.
  • Their instructional programs are designed to produce graduates who become effective educational practitioners, transformative educational leaders, and accomplished educational researchers.
  • Their partnerships and service contributions focus on New Jersey but extend to both national and global communities. 
  • The program is designed to encourage students to:

    • articulate their visions of themselves as teachers;
    • identify and critique the assumptions that undergird their vision;
    • become critically familiar with competing visions;
    • develop instructional strategies that will help them enact their visions; and
    • engage in the kind of reflective inquiry that is an essential characteristic of an effective teacher.