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Gary Henry Named Dean of UD College of Education and Human Development
May 6, 2019Read moreGary T. Henry, a nationally recognized education policy scholar who has worked extensively in establishing educational partnerships and improving pre-K and K-12 school performance, has been named the next dean of the University of Delaware College of E …
CEHD Alumni Win NYC Excellence in Education Awards
April 30, 2019Read moreCEHD Alumni Win NYC Excellence in Education Awards Four University of Delaware alumni, Cori Breindel (‘17), Alexis Holzmann (‘17), Carleigh Antico (‘18), and Kelsey Shallow (‘18), have been recognized as recipients of Success Academy’s Excellence in Ed …
Reading to Children
April 29, 2019Read moreIn the eyes of a child who is learning how to read, touchscreen tablets and “smart” technology are no substitute for a living, breathing adult. At least, that’s according to new research by University of Delaware doctoral student Daniela Avelar. The co …
Transforming Learners into Leaders
April 23, 2019Read moreAsk any professor, and they’ll tell you the groundbreaking research that will guide education policy for the next generation of leaders rarely begins with a lucrative book deal. More often than not, it begins in classrooms as graduate and undergraduate …
Teaching with Bird Houses
April 22, 2019Read moreOn a chilly March morning at the University of Delaware’s Children’s Campus, a few dozen children—guided by undergraduates—took hold of screwdrivers to build nesting houses for local native birds. Sponsored by the College of Education and Human Develop …
Steele Symposium 2019
April 13, 2019Read moreThe Steele Symposium is coordinated by the College of Education and Human Development and includes presentations by undergraduate and graduate students from the School of Education and the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences. The Sympos …
Valerie Earnshaw honored nationally for research on HIV stigma
April 8, 2019Read moreOn March 27, at the headquarters of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, Valerie Earnshaw, an assistant professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, delivered the Office of Disease Prevention’s Early Stage I …
Amanda Jansen Awarded National Science Foundation Grant
April 8, 2019Read moreAmanda Jansen, professor in the School of Education, was recently awarded a $600,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to develop a professional development experience for university faculty who work in mathematics education. She shares the award …
Transforming Special Education
March 27, 2019Read moreIn early 2018, the Delaware Academy of School Leadership (DASL), a professional development, research and policy center in the University of Delaware’s College of Education and Human Development, convened its advisory board of Delaware’s public school …
From Students to Scholars
March 27, 2019Read moreAs an assistant professor in the University of Delaware’s School of Education (SOE), Joshua Wilson frequently employs undergraduate assistants to provide support for grant-funded research projects. For some projects — as with a recent $400,000 research …