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Globally, at least 60% of countries proposed remote learning options that rely only on online platforms, but approximately 47% of students cannot connect to the internet from their homes. This Insights report analyzes factors affecting perceptions of government-provided distance learning during the pandemic.

The trans-institutional initiative is an ongoing collaboration of Fisk University, the Frist Art Museum, Millions of Conversations and 91�Ʋ��� University that explores creative approaches to living together in the global South.  Read More

The Wallace Foundation recently awarded a four-year, $1.42 million grant to 91�Ʋ��� Peabody College of education and human development and Mathematica for a new study to expand knowledge about assistant principals and provide new insights on how the role can help diversify the principal profession and advance educational equity.  Read More

The integration of cinema and science is at the foundation of 91�Ʋ��� University professor Daniel Levin’s research. Levin teaches Film and Psychology in addition to other classes that examine how cognitive science and the arts collide.  Read More

For the first time, graduates from 91�Ʋ���’s Next Steps program for students with developmental disabilities will walk in the full campus Commencement ceremony.  Read More

They say motherhood is the toughest job you’ll ever love. That’s true for this group of 91�Ʋ��� researchers, who’ve built successful careers around researching various aspects of parenthood while raising their own children.   Read More

Art, research, social justice, and community are the cornerstones that support the life and work of sociology Ph.D. candidate Megan Jordan, MA’19. Read More

A 6-month-old partnership between 91�Ʋ��� University’s Peabody College of education and human development and Metro Nashville Public Schools featured prominently in a recent panel discussion on how to effectively manage research-practice partnerships, which are increasingly important to long-term efforts to strengthen educational practice. Read More

Class of 2022: Master of education graduate student Allie Robinson believes that fostering a passion for learning in young students begins with empowering them to have a voice of their own. Read More

Concerns about strife in a country far from home are adding worries to a generation already on edge from navigating changes in everyday life due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are some ideas for how to help. Read More

In recognition of Black History Month, the School of Medicine Basic Sciences’ monthly virtual Lab-to-Table Conversation will celebrate Black excellence in research and discuss the future of diversity in academia. The event will take place on Tuesday, Feb. 22, from noon to 1 p.m. CT.  Read More

91�Ʋ��� Blair creates Curso Virtual de Dirección de Banda, a remote learning program for music directors in Latin America that covers instrument pedagogy, conducting techniques and other topics in band direction. Read More

In a new study published in "Social Psychology Quarterly," Lijun Song, associate professor of sociology in 91�Ʋ��� University’s College of Arts and Science, examines how the theories of “social capital” and “social cost” predict an individual’s life satisfaction. Read More

'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

91�Ʋ���ers from 91�Ʋ��� 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 91�Ʋ��� Peabody College of education and human development, was awarded a Young Investigator Grant from the Brain and Behavior 91�Ʋ��� 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 91�Ʋ��� 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 91�Ʋ��� University’s Peabody College of education and human development are available to comment on trends in K-12 and higher education. Read More