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Your Baby is a Genius
October 22, 2019
Did you know your baby is a genius? It’s a serious question, one that University of Delaware professor Roberta Michnick Golinkoff has been asking parents since she arrived on campus in 1974 and established the Infant Language Lab, since renamed the Chi …
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UD Doctoral Student Named Miss Delaware
July 18, 2019
University of Delaware doctoral student Hillary May was recently crowned Miss Delaware 2019 and will advance to the 2020 Miss America competition. May ran on a platform to destigmatize mental illness and raise awareness of resources for suicide prevent …
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Connecting the Classroom with the Community
July 8, 2019
How can K-12 teachers connect their students’ personal, lived experiences to an often mandated, impersonal, and standards-based curriculum? This question becomes even more pressing for teachers who are working in underperforming schools with student po …
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Reaching the Summit of Scholarship
June 3, 2019
Beneath the velvety hoods and flowing gowns that swept through the North Green at the University of Delaware early Friday, May 31, were scores of well-educated survivors — 182 doctoral students who had withstood the rigor of painstaking inquiry and the …
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UD Grad Students Share Broad Range of Research
May 21, 2019
To learn more about the wide range of research University of Delaware graduate students are doing in UD’s 51 doctoral programs and 131 master’s degree programs, you could go from lab to lab asking questions or try to catch up with these researchers ove …
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Transforming Learners into Leaders
May 3, 2019
Ask any professor, and they’ll tell you the groundbreaking research that will guide education policy for the next generation of leaders rarely begins with a lucrative book deal. More often than not, it begins in classrooms as graduate and undergraduate …
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Reading to Children
April 30, 2019
In the eyes of a child who is learning how to read, touchscreen tablets and “smart” technology are no substitute for a living, breathing adult. At least, that’s according to new research by University of Delaware doctoral student Daniela Avelar. The co …
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Delaware Computer Science Education Summit
April 12, 2019
An increasing number of Delaware high schools offer computer science courses. Still, there’s more work to be done to ensure that every child in the First State has the opportunity to learn computing skills that are essential for success in our modern e …
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Carolyn Hammerschmidt
March 22, 2019
After serving as a music teacher, music teacher mentor, and an assistant principal for an elementary school in New York, Carolyn Hammerschmidt joined the School of Education’s (SOE) EdD program in educational leadership with an interest in educational …
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Online Graduate Open Houses
March 4, 2019
The School of Education’s online graduate education program is ranked in the top 50 online programs in the country by U.S. News & World Report. We hope you can join us for one of our virtual open houses on our teacher leadership, literacy, or excep …
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