In the News: Annastasia Purinton
June 19, 2024
The Delaware Department of Education and the University of Delaware’s College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) have partnered to enhance literacy and ensure equitable learning opportunities statewide. This collaboration aims to analyze K-3 literacy outcomes and administrative data on children, teachers and schools. Leading the project is Annastasia Purinton, …
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In the News: CEHD and Delaware Department of Education
June 10, 2024
Supported by funding from the William T. Grant Foundation, Spencer Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation and the Bezos Family Foundation, College of Education and Human Development faculty and staff are partnering with the Delaware Department of Education to improve K-3 literacy outcomes in Delaware. The team also aims to foster equitable …
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Research Spotlight: Joshua Wilson
December 15, 2022
To help educators better understand the advantages of common and novel methods for assessing student writing, UD associate professor Joshua Wilson and his co-authors examined the reliability of hand-scoring and automated evaluation software (AES) in assessing the writing of upper-elementary students with different writing abilities. Using multivariate generalizability theory and …
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CEHD Research Spotlight: Stephanie Del Tufo and Ye Shen
June 1, 2022
In a recent study, University of Delaware education doctoral candidate Ye Shen and assistant professor Stephanie Del Tufo examined the effect of parent-child reading on the emergent literacy—or developing reading skills—of heritage language learners (bilingual children who speak a language other than English at home but receive instruction in English …
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Literacy Lessons
April 29, 2022
Teachers and prospective teachers often want to include topics about equity and social justice in their classrooms — and are expected to do so under national education standards — but adding new material to their already crowded instructional schedules can be daunting. Now, however, a project developed at the University …
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Leading the Way With Bookworms
January 6, 2022
January 5, 2022 Imagine walking into an elementary school classroom where the students don’t want to put down their books. With enthusiasm, excitement and sometimes even frustration, these young readers — “bookworms” in the making — plead with their teachers for permission to read one more chapter. In Delaware’s Seaford School …
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Child’s Play
August 13, 2021
When 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, …
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Bilingual Special Education
August 12, 2021
Melissa 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 …
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Story Time During the Pandemic
October 26, 2020
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray Go throw your TV set away And in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall. — Roald Dahl in his classic children’s book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Though published in 1964, Dahl’s words continue to reflect the attitudes …
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Seaford, Delaware: Fast Improvement in Delaware
December 9, 2019
School of Education professor and Professional Development Center for Educators Director Sharon Walpole is featured on the latest episode of the ExtraOrdinary Districts podcast. She discusses her open-access literacy curriculum Bookworms K-5 Reading and Writing. Closing the achievement gap between school districts depends on several factors, many of which are …
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Joshua Wilson Wins Mangone Young Scholar Award
November 25, 2019
The University of Delaware’s Francis Alison Society has selected Jason Gleghorn, assistant professor in the College of Engineering, and Joshua Wilson, assistant professor in the College of Education and Human Development, as the winners of the 2019 Gerard J. Mangone Young Scholars Awards. The award recognizes promising and accomplished young …
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New study shows early reading in any language helps children learn to read English
September 24, 2019
A new study co-authored by the University of Delaware’s Steven Amendum has found that children who had strong early reading skills in their native Spanish language when they entered kindergarten experienced greater growth in their ability to read English from kindergarten through fourth grade. Importantly, when the researchers factored in …
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