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Do You Really Need to Read to Learn?
September 12, 2025This article by Stephanie N. Del Tufo, assistant professor of education and human development at the University of Delaware, has been republished with permission from The Conversation’s Curious Kids series, for children of all ages. It answers the ques …
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Research Spotlight: Adrian Pasquarella
September 12, 2025Every day, Delaware educators teach multilingual learners (MLLs), yet many feel underprepared to support them. With more than 19,000 MLLs in the state, University of Delaware faculty are working during National Hispanic Heritage Month this fall and yea …
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Research Spotlight: Sarah Curtiss
August 5, 2025Puberty education can be uncomfortable for many students and teachers, given the sensitive and sometimes emotionally-charged nature of the content. The barriers to this important health topic can be even greater for students with disabilities, who may …
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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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Inspiring the next generation
June 10, 2025The 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, 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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Celebrating UD’s newest doctors
May 28, 2025Alexis 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, 2025University 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, 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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