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  • 2019 Recipient of the Cameron-Glickenhaus Family Fund Prize

    May 28, 2019

    Congratulations to Clara Batchelder '19, the 2019 recipient of the Cameron-Glickenhaus Family Fund Prize. This prize is awarded to the student considered to be the most promising Education minor in terms of demonstrated commitment to an interdisciplinary, research-based approach to improving learning and Education for all students. With this award comes faculty recognition of hard work and achievement in all of our courses and Clara's commitment to the ideals of the department.

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  • TINE RESEARCH - Build-It Box Kits

    February 7, 2018

    Tine researches the gulf in academic success between students who live in poverty and those who don’t. “There are two aspects to that work,” she says. “We identify cognitive processes that underlie the income achievement gap, and we create interventions that address those inequities and can improve education and learning and development for all.” To that end, she and three undergraduate students are designing and assembling Build-It Boxes kits, aimed at sharpening STEM skills for 300 rural middle schoolers.

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  • BHARUCHA ON ACHIEVING SCHOOL QUALITY

    July 31, 2017

    WalletHub analyzed U.S. school systems to determine the top-performers, and asked a panel of researchers and experts, including Professor Jamshed Bharucha, for their insights. The findings can be found at https://wallethub.com/edu/e/states-with-the-best-schools/5335  

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  • Coch Research: How Rhyming Helps Reading

    July 26, 2017

    Kevin Griffee '19, one of Professor Coch's lab assistants, describes current research in the Reading Brains Lab: "Our research sheds light on how people process rhymes, and how they process reading in general, information we believe is valuable in teaching kids to read." An article about this work can be found at http://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2017/07/how-rhyming-helps-reading-brain-waves-tell-story?utm_source=vox_daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=vox_daily_2017_07_26  

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