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Child’s Play
August 13, 2021Read moreWhen you are a child, you are not really a child — at least not all the time. You are also a dinosaur. A wizard. A hot air balloon operator crash-landing into a dodo bird colony off the coast of Madagascar. In other words, playtime is fun. And imaginative. And, …
Bilingual Special Education
August 12, 2021Read moreMelissa Lewis is an elementary education major with concentrations in English as a second language and special education. Lewis also is pursuing a minor in Spanish. She is from Newark, Delaware, and she plans to continue this research throughout the 2021-2022 academic year. She expects to graduate from the University …
New Ph.D. in Education and Social Policy Program
August 10, 2021Read moreHow do charter schools differ in how they deliver instruction and how does this difference affect student learning? How well do early intervention programs support learning in and out of school? How do neighborhood factors influence schooling, safety, well-being and employment? The University of Delaware invites you to learn about …
Outstanding Education Scholarship
June 7, 2021Read moreRoberta Michnick Golinkoff, Unidel H. Rodney Sharp Chair and professor in the School of Education (SOE) and in the departments of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware, has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Education. The National Academy of …
From the Struggle to the Summit
May 28, 2021Read moreAchieving a doctorate in any discipline requires the most rigorous scholarship and the steepest of academic climbs. And that’s in the best of times. To reach that goal during a global pandemic, with the grief, loss and struggle we all understand in much more vivid ways now, is something akin …
CEHD Graduate Student Awarded NSF Fellowship
May 24, 2021Read moreFourteen University of Delaware undergraduate and graduate students and alumni have been awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. An additional three current students and six alumni received honorable mentions. The highly competitive fellowship, the oldest of its kind in the nation, is among the most prestigious awards for graduate …
I Heart UD Giving Day 2021
May 3, 2021Read moreI Heart UD Giving Day May 5, 2021 I Heart UD Giving Day is an opportunity for the UD community to collectively support faculty, staff and student-led causes, programs and initiatives that matter most to them. With 100+ projects representing a range of academic, athletic and student life areas, I …
Learning and Assessment
April 20, 2021Read moreAs the end of the 2020-21 school year approaches, the debate about educational assessments is gaining renewed momentum. While educators and policymakers may hold differing views about how to proceed with testing, they all recognize that equity lies at the heart of this issue. Some argue that educational assessments provide …
Window Science
April 14, 2021Read moreWhen children are learning, things can sometimes get a little messy. Like on a sunny spring morning in the preschool classrooms at the Early Learning Center, located on the University of Delaware’s Children’s Campus, when groups of children aged four and five gathered around metal bowls to practice mixing recipes, a …
UD’s Undergraduate Work-Study Program on a Roll
April 1, 2021Read moreYou might expect to find a 2-year-old undergraduate work-study program under layers of rubble these days, what with all the restrictions because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. But despite the unprecedented upheaval and what must have often seemed like a game of 52-card pickup, students in the University of Delaware’s …