Hilary Levey Friedman, Visiting Assistant Professor of Education, provided commentary on the evolving definition of what it means to be a pageant winner.
Yoko Yamamoto's recent article, "Young children's beliefs about school learning in Japan and the United States: Cultural and socioeconomic comparisons," was published in Early Childhood Research Quarterly.
Jin Li, Professor of Education and Human Development, is spotlighted in the "Hidden Figures" in Developmental Science series for the Society for Research in Child Development.
The Department of Education seeks to hire a lecturer with expertise in language acquisition, bilingual education, and/or teaching English Language Learners.
The Department of Education seeks an outstanding teacher educator with a commitment to advancing educational equity in urban schools to join our dynamic and growing department as a Lecturer in Social Studies Education beginning in summer 2020.
In an article in The Providence Journal, Director of the Urban Education Policy program, Kenneth Wong, comments on wide gaps between graduation rates and SAT scores in Rhode Island high schools. "It's important for the districts and the commissioner to communicate why this is important, that it's clearly connected to college and career readiness."
The number of words a child is exposed to in the first four years of life can have a huge impact on brain development, language skills and school readiness.
The Annenberg Institute and the Department of Education are searching to jointly hire a tenure-line faculty position in Urban Education Policy at the Assistant or Associate rank.
In a new article published by the Urban Affairs Review, Assistant Professor of Education Jonathan Collins examines the way in which teachers form assessments of schools and districts that motivate their political behavior. The new theory proposed and tested in this article centers on deliberative democracy.