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Catching Zzz
June 26, 2025
As a teenager at boarding school in China, Xiaopeng Ji remembers lying awake in her bed at night, staring at the ceiling for hours after lights out at 9 p.m. “I wasn’t a good sleeper, and I always thought it was all my fault,” she recalled. Years later …
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Inspiring the next generation
June 10, 2025
The daughter of a Guyanese immigrant and a mother who “believed in the magic of school,” University of Delaware alumna Maria D’Aguiar Cobb grew up knowing education could change lives. Now a third grade gifted services teacher at Mount Pleasant Element …
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Research Spotlight: Steve Amendum
May 30, 2025
Multilingual learners (ML), or children whose home language is not English, make up about 15% of all kindergarten and first grade students in U.S. public schools. Yet, many teachers receive little preparation in ML instruction, and many feel unprepared …
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Celebrating UD’s newest doctors
May 28, 2025
Alexis Omar’s father, aunt and grandfather all earned University of Delaware degrees, so Blue Hen pride was instilled in her at a young age and reinforced throughout her youth. Visits to relatives in the First State from her home in Allentown, Pennsylv …
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National Softball Honors
May 13, 2025
University of Delaware’s Sydney Shaffer, a junior in the College of Education and Human Development’s elementary and middle school teacher education program, was named by Softball America as the ninth best utility player in the country entering May. Sh …
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Research Spotlight: Dominique Baker
March 31, 2025
In recent years, discussions about inequality in the college admissions process have focused on the use of standardized tests like the SAT. But few discussions have focused on another important part of the college application: the listing of extracurri …
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Lifetime Achievements in Science Education
March 31, 2025
Zoubeida R. Dagher, professor in University of Delaware’s College of Education and Human Development (CEHD), remembers the childhood joy she felt as she helped her brother with his homemade “inventions” and conducted science experiments using the pages …
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A Leading Woman in Higher Education
March 31, 2025
Dominique J. Baker, associate professor in the College of Education and Human Development’s (CEHD) School of Education and the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration, has been named one of the top 40 women in higher education i …
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Research Spotlight: Leigh McLean
February 28, 2025
Elementary school teachers often play a special role in their students’ lives, wiping away their kindergarteners’ tears when they’re missing their parents or supporting their fourth graders through a frustrating math lesson. It’s easy to imagine how a …
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Research Spotlight: Teomara Rutherford
January 31, 2025
University computer science (CS) courses serve as important bridges into further CS study and careers in STEM. Yet many women and underrepresented students with interests in STEM turn away from these career paths in college. With new research in CS edu …
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