Draper, a publisher, pastor, business and community leader, returns to her alma mater to bring inspiration to the graduating class of the School of Education
School of Education's Lieny Jeon will co-lead a five-year, $2.1M study of well-being interventions to combat stress and build resilience in educators serving low-income communities
To catch students up, don t remediate. Accelerate.
To counteract the learning loss associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, one School of Education expert is urging schools to keep students working at grade level rather than repeating lessons they may have missed. By Andrew Myers / Published May 6, 2021
The nation s growing concern over the accumulated student learning loss during COVID-19 is even more acute with respect to low-income communities. These students seldom have the necessary technologies to succeed in an online learning environment; similarly, their school systems often lack resources to prepare teachers for effective online pedagogical practices.
While education experts recognize the challenge to help students catch up to grade-level mastery, there is less agreement about what to do to make that happen. The common practice in the United States has been to try to take student backwards and teach them the missed skills from
Robert Slavin, global authority on education research and evidence-based school reform, dies at 70
He is remembered for the lives he changed through his Success for All Foundation and his dedication to meaningful education reform in America By Andrew Myers / Published April 26, 2021
Robert E. Slavin, a noted education researcher, the first-ever Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Education and director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Research and Reform in Education, died Saturday, April 24, of a heart attack. He was 70.
Slavin was a preeminent researcher at the School of Education and a globally recognized figure in the field. His personal mantra was a continual emphasis on evidence-based research as the driver of school reforms across the country a phrase he often simplified as what works in education. Slavin was among a handful of education experts known by name worldwide. He was sought out regularly to testi