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Swimming With Sharks
June 30, 2025Wading in the creek behind University of Delaware’s The College School, elementary students laughed and cheered as they met a challenge their teacher Laurie Drumm posed only a few months prior: build a robot that travels through water, mimics the chara …
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Catching Zzz
June 26, 2025As 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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Research Spotlight: Steve Amendum
May 30, 2025Multilingual 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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Research Spotlight: Dominique Baker
March 31, 2025In 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, 2025Zoubeida 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, 2025Dominique 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, 2025Elementary 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, 2025University 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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Lifetime Achievements in Mathematics Education
November 18, 2024James Hiebert, professor emeritus in the University of Delaware’s College of Education and Human Development (CEHD), didn’t set out to be a mathematics educator. But he was inspired to pursue mathematics by a college professor whose enthusiasm for the …
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In Memoriam: Cynthia Paris
October 31, 2024Cynthia Paris, professor emeritus of human development and family sciences and former director of the University of Delaware Lab School in the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD), passed away Sept. 27, 2024. She was 74. Cynthia Paris A De …
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