Inspiring Jewish agencies to integrate people with disabilities
January 20, 2016
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 …
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Creating improved observational protocol for writing instruction
January 12, 2016
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 …
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Predicting and addressing difficulties with fractions
January 12, 2016
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 …
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Residential program for students with intellectual disabilities
January 4, 2016
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 …
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Making education fast, fun, cheap, useful
December 8, 2015
Robert 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 book is designed for audiences beyond fellow historians of education, to caution readers …
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UD highlights women in research
November 15, 2015
Liz Farley-Ripple, SOE, was featured in UD’s Research magazine, representing Women in Research. Click on her video to learn what drew her to becoming a researcher and what she hopes to accomplish.
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Grocery stores can incentivize healthy shopping
November 9, 2015
In the United States, 47 million people participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to ensure they have enough food on their table. To make their food dollars stretch further, they frequently grab the first thing they see on the shelf that’s on sale and satisfies their family’s preferences. Unfortunately, these alternatives …
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Number Sense Screener to help Pre-K, K and 1st graders
October 30, 2015
Nancy Jordan has received funding through IES to refine and extend work on a Number Sense Screener for identifying children at risk for mathematical difficulties.
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Zoo program to model healthy eating
October 30, 2015
Alison Karpyn, CRESP, is partnering with Christiana Care and Nemours to introduce a healthy eating program, “Evaluating the lmpact of Healthy Food Product Offerings and Tastimals Marketing at the Zoo.”
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Building vocabulary of low-income children
October 30, 2015
Roberta Golinkoff and collaborator Kathy Hirsh-Pasek designed an intervention study to test a new approach for fostering vocabulary development among preschool children from low-income homes.
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Bringing computer and programming skills into the classroom
October 8, 2015
An interdisciplinary team of UD researchers has developed Partner4CS to help teachers integrate computational thinking into the classroom. The initiative has two components: a summer professional development institute for middle and high school teachers and a field experience course at UD designed to support those teachers.
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Improving reading comprehension through text structure instruction
October 2, 2015
Sharon Walpole, SOE, is partnering with Kasualai Wijekumar on a grant designed to enhance classroom-based text structure instruction for 4th and 5th graders in high poverty schools in TX and PA.
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