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Awards+Honors
26 from Johns Hopkins earn Fulbrights
Published June 4, 2024
A record-breaking number of JHU affiliates received awards this spring from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program in support of their continuing study, research, and teaching in foreign countries
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Commencement
Advice for the Class of 2024
Published May 17, 2024
Hopkins alums share some words of wisdom for this year's graduates
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Seeing is believing
Published Spring 2024
Picture It Possible has become a respected consulting firm focused on visual strategy and facilitation / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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How to overhaul America's schools
Published Spring 2024
In her new book, Associate Professor Ashley Rogers Berner makes the case for funding diverse types of schools but holding them all to the same academic standards / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Panelists at the Elevating the Teaching Profession: A National Convening on the Future of Teaching
K-12 Education
Solving for teacher shortages
Published March 27, 2024
Educators discussed how to tackle the chronic, nationwide shortage of K-12 teachers at a two-day event co-hosted by the School of Education at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C.
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Education
A 'tsunami' of chronic absenteeism
Published Feb 29, 2024
Since the pandemic, the percentage of students missing about one month of class time per year has more than doubled, Johns Hopkins researchers say
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In memoriam
Education researcher James McPartland dies at 84
Published Feb 6, 2024
As co-director of JHU's Center for Social Organization of Schools, he helped develop novel approaches to supporting school improvement and student outcomes
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Q+A
Are K-12 teachers assigning too much homework?
Published Jan 17, 2024
After decades of research, School of Education Professor Joyce L. Epstein remains certain that homework is essential—but the quality of homework matters
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Education
Chronic absenteeism tests schools
Published Oct 12, 2023
In 2021-22, 66% of American students attended a school where at least one in five classmates missed four weeks of school, according to new analysis
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Q+A
Hannah Rose has spoken
Published Oct 3, 2023 Video
School of Education alum discusses how preparing for a career in mental health inadvertently readied her to compete on—and know when to bow out of—'Survivor'