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Learning and Assessment
April 20, 2021As 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 …
Read MoreSolutions for Wilmington Schools
December 11, 2020Education Leadership and Administration, Education and Social Policy, Research Methods and Data ScienceOn a chilly autumn night last November, a diverse group of educators, policy makers, researchers and community leaders gathered to discuss one of the most complicated and long-standing problems in Delaware: how to reform under-achieving schools in the …
Read MoreHousing As a Human Right
October 5, 2020Lack of affordable housing is a crisis both nationally and in the state of Delaware, where there are currently only 24 affordable rentals for every 100 extremely low income (ELI) renters. According to data compiled by the National Low Income Housing Co …
Read MoreStudy Finds Racial and Gender Inequities in Education Leadership Pipeline
June 23, 2020Education Leadership and Administration, Education and Social Policy, Research Methods and Data ScienceAcross the nation, school districts have emphasized the importance of racial and gender diversity among its educational leaders. Yet, during the 2011–2012 school year, only 20 percent of all principals were non-White, despite an increasingly diverse te …
Read MoreTalent Matters for School Turnaround Plans
April 24, 2020New research, led by the University of Delaware, has demonstrated that the key to implementing successful reform in low-performing schools is hiring and retaining effective principals and teachers. These findings, reported in Educational Evaluation and …
Read MoreGary Henry ranked among 100 most impactful education policy scholars
January 13, 2020Congratulations to CEHD dean Gary T. Henry, who has once again been named a top education scholar by the RHSU Top 200 Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings. Henry is ranked 81st in the nation—recognized for his extensive contributions to education rese …
Read MoreImproving Student Learning
January 10, 2020Disability and Inclusion, Education Leadership and Administration, Education and Social Policy, Teacher Preparation and Professional DevelopmentShaping minds is a big responsibility, one that teachers in classrooms across America embrace every day. With the introduction of Common Core or state standards in math, science and English, teachers are tasked with delivering rigorous material in ways …
Read MoreNew Faculty Research Grants
October 4, 2019CEHD faculty research centers on addressing fundamental and complex educational and social inequities. This fall, eleven of our faculty were awarded grants through IES, NSF, the Spencer Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to evaluate a …
Read MoreMaking education fast, fun, cheap, useful
December 8, 2015Robert L. Hampel, professor, history of education, is crafting a book that will provide an historical overview of education in the United States. Titled Fast, Fun, Easy, Cheap and Useful: A History of Shortcuts in and around American Education this bo …
Read MoreImproving School Climate
September 10, 2015George Bear, SOE and Debby Boyer, CDS, collaborated with DDOE to secure a 5-yr, $2.8 million School Climate Transformation grant through US DOE. A report, published in December 2014 provides an overview of survey’s applied in Delaware to evaluate the c …
Read MoreReading Recovery Scale Up
September 8, 2015Reading Recovery: Scaling Up What Works Henry May, director of the Center for Research in Education and Social Policy (CRESP), is leading a team of researchers from the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) to conduct a five-year independe …
Read MoreImplementing research in schools
August 17, 2015In 2015, CRESP Director Henry May, and SOE researcher Elizabeth Farley-Ripple were awarded a $5 million research grant to establish the Center for Research Use in Education (CRUE). The center will be located within CRESP and will study knowledge utiliz …
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