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SOEHS Student Spotlight — Will Gates
Meet Will Gates — a Secondary History & Government major whose rural Kansas background gives him a powerful perspective on the value of education...
Lisa Wolf-Wendel Named Inaugural ASHE Fellow During Association’s 50th Anniversary
The School of Education & Human Sciences is proud to recognize Dr. Lisa Wolf-Wendel, professor in the Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, for being named an inaugural Fellow of the ...
Meet the 2025–2026 SOEHS Student Ambassadors
The School of Education and Human Sciences Student Ambassadors are a passionate group of Jayhawks who represent the SOEHS community and share their experiences with future students...
KU Counseling Psychology marks 70 years with 2025 Lichtenberg Lecture featuring Rod Goodyear
The University of Kansas will celebrate a milestone this fall: the 70th anniversary of its Counseling Psychology Program, highlighted by the 2025 Lichtenberg Lecture featuring renowned scholar Rod Goodyear...
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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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