Education

Higher education for women in South Sudan

April 16, 2013

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Indiana University has been awarded $4.2 million by the U.S. Agency for International Development, through Higher Education for Development, for a 2½-year project to promote women’s access to and success in higher education in South Sudan. Through IU’s Center for Social Studies and International Education, the project will be headed by Terry Mason, professor of curriculum [...]

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Phil Stafford

March 13, 2013

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Cultural anthropologist Phil Stafford directs the Center on Aging and Community and is a national expert on what makes elder-friendly communities work.

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When is homework worth the time?

January 8, 2013

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A study led by an Indiana University School of Education faculty member in Bloomington finds little correlation between time spent on homework and better course grades for math and science students, but a positive relationship between homework time and performance on standardized tests. Adam Maltese, assistant professor of science education in the IU School of [...]

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Asking the hard questions about why we act as we do

October 3, 2012

In the October 1, 2012 online issue of Proceeding of National Academy of Sciences, an article titled “Misconduct accounts for the majority of retracted scientific publications” reports that out of 2,047 biomedical and life-science research articles indexed by PubMed as retracted on May 3, 2012 (retracted articles represent “unequivocal evidence of project failure,” the authors [...]

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Obesity epidemic among youth, says report

June 11, 2012

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The problem of childhood obesity is getting worse across the nation and Indiana, requiring direct action by schools, parents and governmental leaders, according to a new policy brief from the Center for Evaluation & Education Policy at Indiana University. The brief, “Childhood Obesity and Nutrition Issues in the United States: An Update on School-Based Policies [...]

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Race still at center in school suspension

April 18, 2012

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Who gets expelled from school, and why? That’s a question Russell Skiba has considered frequently in his research. His most recent exploration of the topic, a study entitled Parsing Disciplinary Disproportionality delivered at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, examines the relative contributions of type of behavior, student demographic variables, and school [...]

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The Partner’s Guide to Asperger Syndrome

April 3, 2012

by Susan Moreno, Marci Wheeler, Kealah Parkinson

Two IUB scholars top contributors to education discourse

January 2, 2012

A new ranking compiled by education researcher and author Rick Hess and published on the Education Week website places two Indiana University School of Education faculty among the top contributors to public debate about education. Jonathan Plucker, director of the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy and a professor of educational psychology and cognitive science, [...]

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