Dr. Lynn M. Burlbaw

My current research interest lie in the areas of student and teacher acquisition of social studies concepts and skills. I work with pre-service and in-service teachers.

I have made presentations and written papers on all of the above topics over the past years.

In the past 5 years my most immediate research interest has been in schools in Texas during the New Deal Era into World War II and schooling in Colorado, especially coal mining camps, in the late 1890s to 1920s, of the CF&I company. I have also written and made presentations on teacher certification in Colorado during that same time period.

Academic Experience:
- I have received two incentive grant awards from the Center for Teaching Excellence at Texas A&M University
- I was also one of the 10 charter Center for Teaching Excellence Teaching Fellows
- I am the editor of Curriculum History, the journal of the Society for the Study of Curriculum History

Business Experience:
- I am on the Editorial Board of Education Annual Editions and have been for the past 10 years.
- I am on Editorial Board of American Educational History Journal and the Executive Secretary of the Society for the Study of Curriculum History.

My current major research project is on funding for schools in Texas between 1933 and 1943, specifically the building and rennovation funding provided by the WPA/PWA. I am also interested in organizing a documentation program for the schools built withthese funds which are still standing and being used.