CEHD In The News 2023-2024
July 31, 2024
Read the latest on CEHD faculty, staff and programs featured in news publications. July 2024 Cellphone Pouches to be Piloted at Schools Across Delaware (Kenneth Shores, Yahoo! News, July 25) For Illinois students, the promises of for-profit colleges often ring hollow (Dominique Baker, Marketplace, July 23) Woman Can’t Understand The …
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Research Spotlight: Joshua Wilson
July 30, 2024
When ChatGPT burst onto the scene in November 2022, many educators and parents worried that new writing tools powered by artificial intelligence (AI) would help their students bypass important learning opportunities. Instead, as University of Delaware Associate Professor Joshua Wilson has shown, AI-powered writing and evaluation tools have actually helped …
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Interim Dean Named for CEHD
July 17, 2024
Rena A. Hallam, a professor of human development and family sciences, will serve as interim dean of the University of Delaware’s College of Education and Human Development, President Dennis Assanis and Provost Laura Carlson announced today. Hallam, a UD alumna and director of the Delaware Institute for Excellence in Early Childhood, …
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New Appointments in the Provost’s Office
July 15, 2024
Two longtime members of the University of Delaware faculty will assume new positions within the Office of the Provost, President Dennis Assanis and Provost Laura Carlson announced today. Martha Buell, chair of the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, will serve as vice provost of faculty affairs, effective Aug. …
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Supporting Delaware Educators
July 12, 2024
In partnership with the Delaware Department of Education (DDOE) and the Delaware Association of School Administrators, the University of Delaware’s School Success Center (SSC) and Partnership for Public Education (PPE), housed within the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD), welcomed nearly 600 educators to the 22nd annual Policy and …
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Supporting Multilingual Learners
July 10, 2024
With a fellowship from the International Literacy Association (ILA), University of Delaware doctoral student Jon Kittle is working on new research that will support reading specialists as they teach multilingual learners, students whose first language is not English. In Delaware, just over 11% of all K-12 students are multilingual learners, …
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In the News: Martha Buell
July 7, 2024
In a recent feature in Bored Panda, Martha Buell, professor and chair of the College of Education and Human Development’s Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, shared insight on the topic of child care and the role family members play. Bored Panda turned to Buell about a Redditor’s refusal …
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In the News: Kenneth Shores
July 3, 2024
Kenneth A. Shores, assistant professor in the College of Education and Human Development’s School of Education, spoke with Spotlight Delaware about a new initiative to reduce cell phone distractions in Delaware schools by providing phone pouches. Delaware’s George Read Middle School has used phone pouches since the 2022-23 academic year, …
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Answering the Call for Social Workers
July 2, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic upended everyday life as families within Delaware and across the nation grappled with school closures, struggled with rising rates of unemployment, and navigated new physical and mental health challenges. While the most acute challenges of the pandemic are now behind us, many communities are still contending with …
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In the News: Dominique Baker
June 30, 2024
Dominique Baker, associate professor in the College of Education and Human Development and the Joseph R. Biden Jr. School of Policy and Administration, shared insight on the troubling impact of for-profit colleges in a feature on Yahoo! News. She highlighted the stark contrast in how these institutions use tuition revenue …
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Research Spotlight: Henry May and Sharon Walpole
June 28, 2024
In 2016, Delaware’s Seaford School District adopted the aptly titled Bookworms curriculum, an open access literacy program for students in kindergarten through grade 5 developed by University of Delaware Professor Sharon Walpole. Students’ love of reading grew rapidly, as well as their literacy achievement: the percentage of students achieving proficient …
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Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth
June 26, 2024
In a first-of-its-kind study published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, University of Delaware assistant professor Eric Layland and his co-authors investigated how discriminatory laws and policies affected the developmental milestones of more than 100,000 lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) adolescents and adults across 28 European countries. Layland and …
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