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Joshua Wilson, associate professor in the College of Education and Human Development’s School of Education, spoke with WDEL about ChatGPT and how artificial intelligence can be used effectively as a tool in the classroom. Listen to the Podcast News mentions  Audio: Dr. Joshua Wilson WDEL Podcast, October 1, 2023 Pathways …

Nancy C. Jordan, Dean Family Endowed Chair and professor in the College of Education and Human Development’s (CEHD) School of Education (SOE) was recently featured in an Education Week article about the challenges of understanding fractions and how they affect students in the classroom. Jordan’s research and interventions in the …

Three Blue Hens with strong commitments to the health of Planet Earth have won 2023 Green Hen Awards, selected by the University of Delaware’s Office of Sustainability. Each winner represents a different segment of the UD community — students, staff and faculty — with work covering everything from crafting policy …

Roderick L. Carey, assistant professor in the College of Education and Human Development’s Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, was quoted in an NBC News article about “Brickgate” and the gender roles of Black men and women.   Carey shares that young Black boys are socialized to believe they …

The University of Delaware is named among the best colleges in the United States according to recent rankings released by U.S. News & World Report and the Wall Street Journal. UD advanced 13 slots to the rank of #76 among the nation’s best overall universities, according to U.S. News & World Report. Additionally, UD …

Kenneth A. Shores, assistant professor in the College of Education & Human Development’s School of Education, spoke with St. Louis Post-Dispatch about how pandemic aid offered a rare chance to quickly test which recovery efforts were most effective in helping students recover learning loss due to school closures.  But, as …

This fall, the University of Delaware College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) welcomes seven new faculty members. This growth bolsters CEHD’s strengths in the areas of human development and family sciences, education and social policy, evaluation and measurement, curriculum and instruction and school psychology, deepening the college’s scholarship and …

In a new, first-of-its-kind study published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, University of Delaware Assistant Professor Eric K. Layland and co-authors Richard Bränström of the Karolinska Institutet and Gabriel Murchison and John Pachankis of Yale University investigated the timing of developmental milestones for more than 100,000 lesbian, gay …

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 …

As the summer draws to a close, students, teachers and administrators across Delaware are trading swimsuits for backpacks as they return to the classroom for a new academic year. While the back-to-school season is often exciting, many families and school staff may also be feeling nervous or concerned, especially in …