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Alumni Bring Chinese Immersion Program to Delaware
March 15, 2013This school year, 100 kindergarteners attending the J. Ralph McIlvaine Early Childhood Center in Magnolia, Delaware entered the state’s only Chinese language immersion program. The program was successfully launched thanks to the efforts of several Univ …
Read MoreSOE Graduate Program Ranked 37th by US News & World Report
March 14, 2013The 2014 edition of U.S. News and World Report’s Best Graduate Schools, released March 12, ranks several schools and programs at the University of Delaware in the upper echelon among academic institutions. See the full story on UD Daily and a summary o …
Read MoreHampel Pens Opinion Piece About Extracurricular Activities
March 1, 2013Advanced placement English? No thanks. Calculus? Maybe in college. When I as in high school, I avoided the hardest courses so I could devote more time to my favorite extracurricular activities. I wasn’t just having fun in the late afternoon. I learned …
Read MoreJoan Buttram and Bob Hampel Explain What to Consider When Choosing a High School
December 15, 2012High schools have a tall order to fill today, says Joan Buttram, director of the Delaware Education Research and Development Center and School of Education assistant professor at the University of Delaware. We are educating many more kids than a genera …
Read MoreRachel Karchmer-Klein Teaches Educators How to Read and Write in a New Way
November 12, 2012Rachel Karchmer-Klein, an associate professor in the University of Delaware’s School of Education, is teaching future educators to read and write multimodal texts, which includes everything from literature on a Kindle or iPad to information on a websit …
Read MoreRoberta Golinkoff Offers Parenting Advice
November 1, 2012Welcome to parenting in the 21st century! Everyone we know owns an iPod, watches podcasts, reads blogs and can’t wait to get an iPad or high-definition TV. So it makes sense that the technological wonders that we experience as adults should surely cat …
Read MoreAlumnus Mary Pinkston Awarded Presidential Honor for Teaching Excellence
July 6, 2012Two graduates of the University of Delaware College of Arts and Sciences’ secondary teacher education program have been awarded Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the nation’s highest honor for math and science teac …
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