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   WHAT: CENTER FOR DISABILITIES STUDIES, LUNCHTIME LEARNING ABOUT: The Next Step in Inclusion: Dorm Life for Students with Intellectual Disabilities WHERE: Center for Disabilities Studies, Room 132A WHEN: 12PM-1pm on February 23rd.  HOW TO R …

    CEHD Graduate Programs Open House   Join us Thursday, January 25 at 5pm to learn about which graduate program in UD’s College of Education and Human Development is right for you. 5:00 to 6:00 pm   General information and student pane …

  Faculty in the College of Education and Human Development are leaders in their field, not only recognized for their expertise, but also dedicated to supporting our students as they pursue their education. In 2017, our committed researchers, prof …

When children are young, they are mathematically curious all of the time. We hear them challenging each other to count to the highest number, chatting about the concept of infinity, and identifying patterns in games that ask them  to “pick the item tha …

Nadisha Downs, a Human Services major, collaborated with HDFS faculty, Rob Palkovitz, to study the involvement of young African American fathers in the lives of their children.     Nadisha Downs grew up in Wilmington and is intimately aware o …

In an effort to inspire a future of peace around the world, Kendra DeMicco, MAT ’13, established a young adult leadership development initiative. In 2017, her team held 3 Peace Camps–in Turkey, Iraq and Colombia, South America– bringing together 150 young people with opposing ideologies.

In addition to our postings for academic positions, we have added a job listing for a Part-Time Recruitment Specialist. If you have experience marketing undergrad and grad programs, apply to join our dynamic team while working on our beautiful Newark campus.

Join us this fall to learn about CEHD Graduate Programs. We are hosting open houses online and in person, providing information about our faculty, curriculum, funding and application requirements for our masters and doctoral programs.

CEHD faculty and staff participated in the signing of 3 House Bills aimed at improving K-12 education in Delaware. These will the help increased pool of new teachers in DE public schools, and require high schools to offer computer science courses.

Josh Wilson’s Spencer Grant will allow him to expand his research to develop a new computerized formative assessment model that identifies student language skills at the word, sentence, and discourse level through automated evaluations of the essay’s word choice, syntax, and cohesion. He will examine results across multiple genres of student writing, and further test the ability of the model to predict scores on state writing assessments.