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When Lehigh professors Linda M. Bambara and Christine L. Cole first met a boy who would become part of their research helping teens with autism interact with peers, he was sitting alone in a stairwell during lunch period at Allen High School in Allentown, Pa.
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Educational competition between U.S. school districts has demonstrated the power to influence educational outcomes, both positively and negatively. Craig Hochbein argues that competitors are responsible for determining the quality of the competition, as well as the results.
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Opponents of charter schools, vouchers, and other forms of school choice have utilized the confirmation of Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education to denounce educational competition. Citing low performance, segregation, and corruption among schools of choice, her detractors have attacked educational competition. However, the bitter tenor... Read more »
Dr. Gary M. Sasso, who has served as the seventh dean of the College of Education since 2008, has announced that he is retiring from Lehigh University at the conclusion of the 2017-18 academic year.
“Dean Sasso has led the College of Education to significant increases in research prominence, increased engagement with our local community... Read more »
New teachers can learn a lot from fellow teachers in their first five years on the job: how to settle a rowdy class, how to move a lesson from mildly interesting to riveting, how to spot a struggling student. They also, a new study suggests, learn burnout from their... Read more »