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Young Children From Different Backgrounds Face Large Disparities in Investments in Education, Well-being, UMD Study Finds

Mar 31, 2026

The greatest gaps in investments in U.S. children’s education, health and well-being occur not during school, but before kids enter kindergarten...

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Eight College of Education Projects Awarded $409K from UMD’s New Research Resilience Initiatives

Mar 24, 2026

The University of Maryland recently announced that 82 projects across campus will receive a total of $5.25 million through the university’s new set of...

Why Dads Matter

Mar 5, 2026

Fathers in the United States are spending more time caring for their children now than 10 years ago, and they’re highly invested in parenting. In a...

The three UMD College of Education Holmes Scholars sit together at a table at the Holmes Scholars Preconference to the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Annual Meeting.

UMD College of Education Establishes New Program to Cultivate Future Education Leaders

Mar 4, 2026

The University of Maryland College of Education recently launched its inaugural cohort in the Holmes Scholars Program, which provides mentorship, peer...

Maryland Initiative for Literacy and Equity Co-Directors Donald J. Bolger, associate professor at UMD, and Simone Gibson Ph.D. ’09, associate professor at Morgan State University, lead literacy activities with children.

Grand Challenges: Maryland Initiative for Literacy and Equity

Feb 18, 2026

Fewer than 1 in 3 Maryland students could read at grade level coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic. The researchers of the Maryland Initiative for...

UMD College of Education Dean and Education Policy Researcher Ranked Among Most Influential U.S. Education Scholars

Feb 17, 2026

Two University of Maryland College of Education researchers have been named among the most influential education scholars in the United States...

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Accolades: Faculty, Staff and Student Awards and Honors (Winter 2025-26)

Feb 17, 2026

Below are awards and honors University of Maryland College of Education faculty, staff and students have earned between mid-November 2025 and mid...

A teacher leads a literacy activity at Cool Spring Elementary, a local dual-language elementary school, which works with the Maryland Initiative for Literacy and Equity.

At 3-Year Anniversary, Grand Challenges Grants Program Reaps Major Returns

Feb 16, 2026

The University of Maryland's Grand Challenges Grants program is accelerating solutions to humanity’s most pressing issues in our communities and...

A screen shot from IRIS Reads, a virtual reality game that helps address dyslexia, shows four Terracotta Warriors holding the letters b, l, u and f and standing on the Great Wall of China.

Virtual Game, Real Learning

Jan 15, 2026

Dyslexia isn’t just frustrating for children struggling to decipher squiggles as letters. At schools that can’t support students one-on-one, it can be...

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Listening While Reading

Dec 16, 2025

If you’ve tried a language learning app recently, or listened to a podcast, you may notice that you have choices. In a reading task, you might see the...