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Written by Lini S. Kadaba | Illustrations by Laurindo Feliciano
The data is indisputable: Boys now lag behind girls in several significant areas of education. But the roots of the new gender gap are more complex and nuanced than has been reported. And so are the solutions.
For years, women... Read more »
Just off a busy four-lane strip mall-lined road, within a quiet neighborhood in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, rests Jeffersontown High School. When arriving at the school, visitors will notice nothing remarkable about the setting or the building. Similar to the view from the parking lot, a review of the school’s published accountability statistics... Read more »
Many people hear the term “sex trafficking” and think of Third World countries. But youth all over the United States—including the Lehigh Valley—become victims of sexual slavery every day.
“Our research in a local county prison revealed that 50 percent of the women inmates had a history of sex trafficking, and one-third of these... Read more »
For the next issue of Theory to Practice magazine, the Lehigh University College of Education brought together two experts—alumnus Peter Langman, Ph.D., author of Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters, and one of his former professors, Arnold Spokane, program director of counseling psychology at Lehigh—to discuss issues surrounding... Read more »
Parents and teachers often hear about the importance of keeping young children engaged. In the education research world, this engagement translates to the amount of time children spend interacting with their environment—adults, other children, and materials—in a way that is developmentally appropriate.
To measure how well individual... Read more »