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Emoji used in app for K-12 students
Education
Focused? Frustrated? Restless?
Published Aug 18, 2021
Hopkins researchers who study classroom stress create an app that makes it easier for students to tell teachers how they're feeling
A classroom desk with school supplies and a mask
Education
COVID-19 and the new school year
Published Aug 9, 2021
As a new school year begins, Johns Hopkins education experts stress the high value of in-person learning balanced by mitigating community spread of the virus
Masked children in a classroom
Education
To catch students up, don't remediate. Accelerate.
Published May 6, 2021
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.
Bob Slavin
In memoriam
Education researcher Robert Slavin dies at 70
Published April 26, 2021
He was a longtime Johns Hopkins research scientist and professor, as well as a global authority on education research and evidence-based school reform
Masked children in a classroom
Open science
An emphasis on evidence
Published April 26, 2021
School of Education faculty members aim to bring scientific rigor back to education research
Global map
Education
New global tracker to measure pandemic's impact on education worldwide
Published March 26, 2021
The COVID-19—Global Education Recovery Tracker is a collaborative effort of Johns Hopkins University, the World Bank, and UNICEF
Conceptual illustration of a person weighing a lightbulb and a coronavirus particle in their hands
Perspective
Education in focus
Published March 25, 2021
As the first full school year since the beginning of the pandemic draws to a close and the U.S. government prepares an infusion of funding into the American education system, experts weigh in
Screenshot of the teacher vaccine tracker, taken on March 9, 2021
School reopening
Experts: States must implement teacher vaccination plans, tracking to ensure safe school reopenings by fall
Published March 9, 2021
The Johns Hopkins eSchool+ Initiative launches dashboard of state-by-state policies and status
Group photo of five people
Community
'Nobody Asked Me': Research project changes the narrative
Published Feb 17, 2021
Hopkins researcher Richard Lofton teams with community organizer Larry Simmons for in-depth interviews of Baltimore families to discuss social issues most important to them
Community leaders and developers prepare to break ground on the East Baltimore Historical Library
East Baltimore
Community leaders, developers break ground on new East Baltimore Historical Library site
Published Feb 12, 2021
The library will preserve the history of East Baltimore and will be housed in three row homes adjoining Henderson-Hopkins School