Students Making A Difference Through Research & Practice

Graduate Student Awarded NSF Fellowship
Human Development and Family Sciences doctoral student Camila Polanco is working to address social and cultural inequities in education. She is exploring ways that teachers can support Black and Latina girls in STEM.

Undergraduate Work-Study Program on a Roll
Human Services major Rachel Antwi worked with assistant professor Bryan VanGronigen to gather data for a project focused on the capacity of state education departments to improve underperforming schools.

Teaching Anti-Racism
Doctoral student Diane Codding is taking the knowledge and experience she gained as a teacher and applying those lessons to her research into racial literacy, particularly how white teachers learn to talk about race in the classroom.
LATEST COLLEGE NEWS
Education Policy and Practice
20th annual institute on public education celebrates its founding, focuses on the future
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Teachers of Tomorrow
UD teacher pipeline program hosts Delaware high schoolers on campus for an introduction to the field of education.
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Reading instruction
Teaching children to read is complex, and there are different approaches to teaching literacy, with some methods focusing on phonics and others focusing more heavily on language comprehension. Research has shown, however, that the most effective instruction includes explicit instruction in both.
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In Memoriam: Beverly McLain
Beverly Baker McLain, retired senior secretary in the School of Education of the University of Delaware College of Education and Human Development, died on May 16, 2022. She was 79.
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About Our College
The College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) at the University of Delaware offers programs that integrate classwork with extensive field experience, to prepare our students to address the most pressing social and educational issues of our time. Over 100 faculty members guide our 1,400 undergraduate and graduate students to become educators, researchers, advocates and leaders in their fields, locally and around the globe.