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KU School of Education & Human Sciences Recognized for National Rankings and Fall 2025 Honor Roll
The University of Kansas School of Education & Human Sciences (SOEHS) continues to earn national recognition for academic excellence while celebrating the achievements of undergraduate students named to the Fall 2025 Honor Roll...
Olivia Copeland receives national dissertation award from ACPA
Olivia M. Copeland, Ph.D., visiting assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies (ELPS) in the University of Kansas School of Education & Human Sciences, has received a national honor recognizing excellence in student affairs scholarship ...
Yong Zhao Recognized Nationally for Public Influence in Education
The University of Kansas School of Education and Human Sciences is pleased to recognize Yong Zhao, Professor in the Department of Curriculum & Instructi...
Hayley Mullinax Receives University of Kansas Graduate Teaching Award
The School Education and Human Sciences is thrilled to celebrate Hayley Mullinax, a second-year PhD student in School Psychology, as a recipient of the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral ...
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New book examines how educational reforms have attempted to fix past problems instead of inventing the future
In "Fix the Past or Invent the Future," education expert Yong Zhao explores how countless attempts and millions of dollars of investment have attempted to fix problems of the past in education instead of finding a new way forward for American schools, and more importantly, each individual.
New book delves into bigotry in critical, nonpartisan manner seeking to analyze how hate is taught
"On Bigotry: Twenty Lessons on How Bigotry Works and What to Do About It," a new book by Nicholas Ensley Mitchell of the University of Kansas, takes a critical, nonpartisan look at bigotry to help readers better understand it. Mitchell writes that bigotry is taught, and, as an education scholar, believes anything that is taught has curriculum that can be analyzed.
University of Kansas announces spring 2025 honor roll
Nearly 8,700 undergraduate students at the University of Kansas earned honor roll distinction for the spring 2025 semester.
KU researchers develop, validate tool to identify strengths in students as young as preschool
The tool can help identify strengths in very young students and allow parents, teachers and others to start building on them from an early point in their lives and education. Previous strengths research had focused on older students and adults.
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