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Allison Karpyn, CRESP, has received $70,000 funding from Healthy Eating Research to determine Minimum Stocking Levels and Marketing Strategies for Retail Food Stores. Over an 8-month period, Karpyn’s team will aim to: 1) understand the barriers and facilitators to implementation of the guidelines for Minimum Stocking Levels and Marketing Strategies of …

Steven Amendum, DCTE Faculty Scholar in the School of Education was presented with the 2015 Early Career Achievement Award by the Literacy Research Association. He was recognized for making “significant contributions to literacy research and education.”

CEHD is dedicated to addressing the challenges faced by schools, children and families at home and around the world. To learn how our students and faculty helped to make a difference in 2015, we invite you to watch our 2015 Year in Review video.

This Winter Session, CEHD offered two Study Abroad programs, providing students the opportunity to integrate coursework with unique experiences in a global environment. See how students developed increased cultural sensitivity in South Africa, and integrated art and architecture into math lessons in Turkey.

Jewish Community Services agencies tend to segregate people with disabilities, isolating them from fully participating in their community life. To address this, the Ruderman Family Foundation (RFF), under the direction of Steven Eidelman, H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Human Services Policy and Leadership in Human Development & Family Studies, established …

With the attention that the Common Core State Standards give to writing, and the writing requirements in the new Smarter Balanced Assessments, many teachers and administrators are concerned about their approach to writing instruction. “As an elementary principal, and later, as Director of Curriculum and Instruction, I frequently observed primary …

In 2010, the Center for Improving the Learning of Fractions (CILF) was established at the University of Delaware. As part of a $10 million center grant from the Institute of Education Sciences, Nancy C. Jordan, professor of learning sciences in UD’s School of Education; Lynn Fuchs, Vanderbilt University; and Robert …

The Center for Disabilities Studies was awarded funding by UD’s Professional and Continuing Studies to support a summer program for high school students with intellectual disabilities. As an extension of the Career and Life Studies Certificate (CLSC) program, this a one-week residential program will help students set goals, explore career …