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F. Richard Olenchak was appointed the new director of research for the Gifted Development Center/Institute for the Study of Advanced Development (GDC/ISAD).

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation honored Lindley McDavid, senior evaluation and research association with the Evaluation and Learning Research Center, with a 2024 W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Engagement Scholarship Awards at an awards ceremony in Portland, OR. McDavid received the award...

A multidisciplinary team from Purdue University’s College of Education and the College of Health and Human Sciences’ School of Nursing designed and created two innovative Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to help nursing students learn to care for patients with Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and with a special focus on Opioid Use Disorder (OUD).

An interdisciplinary team of Purdue University researchers developed an interprofessional training program for graduate students to gain experience working with high intensity needs students in the Greater Lafayette area.

The Science of Reading (SOR) is intended to benefit all children as they develop a strong foundation in reading. For a growing number of students who have proficiencies in languages other than English, how they experience SOR classroom activities differs. Students who are learning English as an additional language come from a variety of language backgrounds and enter at different levels of English proficiency, ranging from beginner to advanced. This research brief provides a linguistic landscape of Indiana’s K-12 students, followed by a review of the research on how certain components of reading (phonemic awareness, phonics, and fluency) are different for identified-English learners (ELs).

The College of Education will hold a Teacher Candidate Professional Development Day to help Purdue full-time student teachers prepare for the next steps in their teaching careers.