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  • Education Partnership Aims to Strengthen Teacher Workforce, Address Classroom Equity

    The goal of the Maryland Professional Development Schools 2025 project is to come up with effective classroom strategies and mentoring techniques for interns and young teachers, as well as new career ladders and pay incentives that help retain quality educators. (Photo by iStock) A new collaboration between the University of Maryland and the state’s two largest school districts will create innovative training opportunities for education students, bolster professional development and promote equity across Maryland public schools.

  • Pines to Teach Grand Challenges Course

    The eight-week “Grand Challenges of Our Time” course will welcome 80 freshmen to explore four critical issues: COVID-19, the Black Lives Matter movement, climate change and voting access.(Photo by John T. Consoli) Freshmen at the University of Maryland are wading through the most unconventional semester in generations, whether learning online or living in a single dorm room while the world wrestles with a pandemic, social unrest and an increasingly fraught presidential election.

  • Harnessing Brain Imaging to Understand Child Development

    In 2000, Distinguished University Professor Nathan A. Fox, began important research in state-run orphanages in Romania, where many abandoned children ended-up during and following the period of the Communist dictator, Nicolae Ceau?Öescu. As part of the Bucharest Early Intervention Project, Dr. Fox began studying the growth and development of children living in these overcrowded Romanian orphanages.


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