Jan. 13, 2025
The work of Educational Leadership faculty member J. Cameron Anglum was cited in the White House's annual Economic Report of the President, which was released last week. His paper (cited on page 259) examines the federal school funding response to the Great Recession to draw lessons for federal pandemic relief funding in public schools nationwide. The report is available at https://bit.ly/4gOIZnB
Sara Kangas, program director of COE's Special Education and ESL programs, has received a grant from the Spencer Foundation through its prestigious Large Grants program. Kangas and Jamie Schissel, an associate professor of Teacher Education and Higher Education at UNC Greensboro, are the principal investigators for the project titled, "Individualized Language Plans for Multilingual Learners with Disabilities: Investigating Implementation and Stakeholder Perspectives."
Raquel Sosa knew she wanted to pursue a career in psychology before she ever set foot on a college campus. “Looking at the differences between clinical and counseling psych, counseling psychology definitely attracted me a lot more because of the emphasis on social justice,” she said. Sosa was interested in working with Latinx and immigrant populations which made the COE’s Counseling Psychology doctoral program a good fit for her interests.
Chen Shi’s research is focused on helping children with emotional behavioral disorder and ADHD, and their families.