University of Pittsburgh School of Education

The University of Pittsburgh School of Education consists of five academic departments: Administrative and Policy Studies, Health and Physical Activity, Instruction and Learning, Learning Sciences & Policy, and Psychology in Education.

[3] A school of education at the University of Pittsburgh has roots as far back as 1843, when a teachers college designed to meet the demands for a proposed Pittsburgh High School, was implemented as part of an experimental curriculum by university head Heman Dyer.

[2] However, plans were disrupted by an 1894 fire that destroyed the University's facilities and records of this early attempt at an education school.

Edmund Burke Huey helped in founding the department, and that year, the university began to offer its first two courses on education for practicing teachers.

[6] Will Grant Chambers, who replaced Huey who had left the university to pursue research on mental retardation, served as its first dean and head professor.