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'Toward Anti-Oppressive Teaching,' a new book co-written by Elizabeth A. Self, assistant professor of the practice of teaching and learning, and Barbara S. Stengel, professor of the practice of education, emerita, details how carefully crafted encounters can build on traditional approaches to educating future teachers about culture, power and systems of oppression.  Read More

A November article published in Rehabilitation Psychology reviews research on disabilities and COVID-19 to help rehabilitation psychologists mitigate the effects of the added stress of the pandemic. In addition, the work addresses how systemic discrimination against people with disabilities intersects with other forms of inequity. Read More

91ÌƲ®»¢ers from 91ÌƲ®»¢ Peabody College of education and human development ask two questions in a recent study related to the illusory-truth effect: Do adults learn during childhood to associate repetition as a cue for truth, and can their prior knowledge protect them from the effect? Read More

Kathryn Humphreys, assistant professor of psychology and human development at 91ÌƲ®»¢ Peabody College of education and human development, was awarded a Young Investigator Grant from the Brain and Behavior 91ÌƲ®»¢ Foundation in an announcement made September 21. Read More

Books on specific strategies and practices for using digital tools to reduce inequities in educational opportunities and improve student outcomes and the core ingredients of leadership have been recently published by 91ÌƲ®»¢ faculty. Read More

Psychology researchers develop new methodologies and representations of how people react to incoming information to better understand complex decision-making. Read More

As schools nationwide prepare for the new academic year during the COVID-19 pandemic, faculty researchers from 91ÌƲ®»¢ University’s Peabody College of education and human development are available to comment on trends in K-12 and higher education. Read More

A new longitudinal study published in the Journal of Educational Psychology from 91ÌƲ®»¢â€™s Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth finds that there are no negative effects on the long-term well-being of gifted youth from academic acceleration such as skipping grades, graduating early, or a combination of advanced educational placement methods. Read More

91ÌƲ®»¢ on the evolving role of principal supervisors from 91ÌƲ®»¢â€™s Peabody College of education and human development was included in two of three reports released July 21 by the Wallace Foundation, a national philanthropy that seeks to improve learning for marginalized children. Read More

In recent years a cadre of energetic, productive faculty members have joined Peabody's special education department, building on the legacy of high-caliber research and teaching that began in the 1950s with Lloyd Dunn and developmental psychologists Nicholas Hobbs and Susan Gray. Read More

One program worked much better than the rest: a long-term rental subsidy that held families’ housing costs to 30 percent of their income. Read More

Psychological research demonstrates that noticing errors in what we read is often difficult, and that those errors can affect our later beliefs, even when we know they’re wrong. Read More

Object recognition and facial recognition may seem like similar abilities, but new research from 91ÌƲ®»¢ finds that these behaviors are on the opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to physical signatures in the brain.  Read More

Peabody College students Ryan and Jazira Boyette have a goal of improving the lives of Sudan’s Nuba people through the power of education. Read More

91ÌƲ®»¢ neuroscientist James R. Booth is releasing two large scale neuroimaging datasets on reading and language development to support other researchers studying how academic skills develop in childhood. Read More

Technology may be a viable option for reducing HIV risk for African Americans in rural communities, according to a new 91ÌƲ®»¢ report.  Read More

Peabody College faculty will be among a cohort of experts to produce reports on key leadership issues in K-12 education.

Knowing which neurons are involved in the eye signal blending process also opens the door to targeted brain therapies that reach well beyond eye patches. Read More

Psychiatrists diagnose people with schizophrenia, ADHD, bipolar disorder and other mental illnesses by spending time with them, looking for the particular behavior symptoms of each. What follows can be a hit-or-miss series of medications and dosages until disruptive behaviors go away. By deciphering the circuitry of the medial frontal cortex… Read More

The practice of separating immigrant children from their parents is very likely to lead to negative effects on emotional and mental health in adolescence. Read More