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Racial and ethnic disparities in STEM achievement appear earlier than thought

February 22, 2023

Racial and ethnic disparities in advanced mathematics and science achievement occur as early as kindergarten, much earlier than previously thought, according to a new study led by a Penn State College of Education researcher. The findings suggest that economic and educational policies designed to…

Education professor analyzes South Korean educational reforms

December 7, 2022

As a Penn State education researcher with a specific interest in comparative and international education, and a native of South Korea, Soo-yong Byun has extensive knowledge about the South Korean educational system and how it compares to the American model.
Byun, professor of education (educational…

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Study finds white children more likely to be overdiagnosed for ADHD

September 13, 2022

A new study led by Paul Morgan, Harry and Marion Eberly Faculty Fellow and professor of education (educational theory and policy) and demography, and published in the Journal of Learning Disabilities, examines which sociodemographic groups of children are more likely to be overdiagnosed and…

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Researchers analyze costs of child sexual abuse prevention programs

September 6, 2022

Researchers at Penn State’s Child Maltreatment Solutions Network analyzed the costs related to implementing a child sexual abuse (CSA) prevention program in schools in a new study. Regularly viewed as a human rights violation, public health experts estimate that 27% of females and 5% of males are…

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White children are especially likely to be overdiagnosed and overtreated for ADHD, according to a new study

July 7, 2022

By Paul L. Morgan, Eberly Fellow, Professor of Education and Demography, and Director of SSRI's Center for Educational Disparities Research, Penn State, for The Conversation
White children are especially likely to be overdiagnosed and overtreated for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder during…

Kindergarten children with behavior problems more likely to be bullied

May 19, 2022

Kindergarten children who engage in aggressive or impulsive behaviors, such as arguing or getting angry, are more likely to be bullied as they age, according to a new study led by a Penn State College of Education researcher.
“We’re able to give an empirical answer to specific groups who may be…

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Disruptive kindergartners are likely to be bullied later in elementary school

May 5, 2022

By Paul Morgan, Professor of Education and Demography, and Director of the Center for Educational Disparities Research, for The Conversation
Kindergartners who act out, disrupt classrooms, get angry and argue with their teachers are especially likely to be bullied once they reach third, fourth and…

Black children in Pennsylvania have unequal access to quality preschool

April 14, 2022

Black children in Pennsylvania are far less likely than their white peers to have access to quality preschool providers, according to Penn State College of Education researchers.
“Gaps in educational resources at a young age are a problem because children’s early learning experiences lay the…

Researchers study ways to make college admissions more equitable

March 11, 2022

The Penn State College of Education has received a sub-award on a $1.4 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Kelly Rosinger, assistant professor of education (education and public policy) is a co-principal investigator on a University of Maryland-led study to examine patterns in…

Morgan among top 1% of researchers globally

February 28, 2022

Harry & Marion Royer Eberly Fellow and Professor of Education and Demography Paul Morgan is recognized as being among the top 1% of scientists in the world, according to a report from Elsevier BV and Stanford University.
Morgan is also a PRI associate and the director for the Center of…

Researchers examine link between residential and school segregation

February 9, 2022

School segregation has remained a hot-button political issue since Brown vs. Board of Education, a landmark 1954 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the justices ruled that state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional. New research from a Penn State…

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Connecting researchers to policymakers to optimize educational equity

December 10, 2021

A partnership between Francesca Lopez, Waterbury Chair in Equity Pedagogy and professor of education in the Penn State College of Education, and Penn State’s Research-to-Policy Collaboration was recently awarded a $250,000 Chan Zuckerberg Initiative grant to connect researchers with hundreds of…

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Research finds flawed federal monitoring of students of color with disabilities

November 30, 2021

Current federal legislation and regulation that monitors for significant disproportionality in special education may be contributing to children of color with disabilities failing to receive treatments and services to which they are legally entitled, according to a Penn State College of Education…

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Penn State educational and health disparities research featured

October 27, 2021

This video highlighting work being done at SSRI's Center for Educational Disparities Research and Child Maltreatment Solutions Network features several SSRI cofunded faculty and is currently being broadcast at the annual conference of the American Public Health Association. Research taking place at…

Morgan’s research cited

September 22, 2021

CEDR Director and PRI Associate Paul Morgan and his research team’s work discovering children's oral vocabularies by 24 months of age can predict their academic achievement and classroom behavior was cited recently by the editorial Board of the LA Times in their call for universal child care and…

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Morgan quoted in article about China's screen time ban

September 1, 2021

(Reuters) - Raleigh Smith Duttweiler was folding laundry in her Ohio home, her three children playing the video game Minecraft upstairs, when she heard an NPR story about new rules in China that forbid teenagers and children under age 18 from playing video games for more than three hours a week.
“…

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Helping special education teachers under stress

August 19, 2021

Special education teachers are at heightened risk for stress and burnout, which negatively impacts their effectiveness and well-being. With a new five-year, $4 million grant from the Institute of Educational Sciences, Penn State and Georgia State University (GSU) researchers are teaming up with…

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Black women with ADHD start healing, with a diagnosis at last

July 19, 2021

CEDR Director and PRI associate Paul Morgan and his research team's IES-supported research was recently cited in a Washington Post story discussing the intersections of race, gender, and disability, found here.

Morgan named AERA Fellow

July 13, 2021

CEDR Director and PRI Affiliate Paul Morgan, the Harry & Marion Eberly Faculty Fellow and professor of education (education theory and policy) in the Penn State College of Education, is one of 19 exemplary scholars chosen by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) as 2021 AERA…

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Privilege plays a huge role in getting an ADHD diagnosis

June 28, 2021

By Jess Joho for Mashable
For more than two decades now, the prevailing cultural narratives around ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) centered on suspicions of overdiagnosis and overtreatment. A significant rise in ADHD diagnoses in the '90s sparked concerns that continue to this day…

Penn State early career scholars selected for postdoctoral fellowships

June 25, 2021

SSRI cofunded faculty member Ericka Weathers, assistant professor of education (educational theory and policy), and Matthew Gardner Kelly, assistant professor of education (educational leadership) in Penn State’s College of Education have been selected as 2021 National Academy of Education (NAEd)/…

After School Shootings, Well-Off Families Flee and Enrollment Drops. Low-Income Kids are Left to Confront the Aftermath

June 21, 2021

For more than a decade after the 1999 school shooting at Columbine High School in suburban Denver, Frank DeAngelis held a simple promise: He’d stay on as principal until every student class enrolled in the district during the attack reached the graduation stage.
Despite the community upheaval and…

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Identifying children at risk of later being frequent online-technologies users

January 25, 2021

Children are not only starting to use online electronic devices and online technologies at a younger age, but they are also using them in more situations at home and at school. However, frequent use of online technologies may harm children’s development by displacing other activities that are…

EIC Podcast on examining the delivery of special education services during COVID-19

December 13, 2020

The Evidence-to-Impact Collaborative Podcast is offering a new series called The Pandemic Perspective, where we examine how the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and various aspects of our society, institutions, and other systems have collided, changed, and even collapsed in the last nine months.
For the…

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Preschool program linked with better social and emotional skills years later

December 11, 2020

A preschool enrichment program developed at Penn State helps boost social and emotional skills that still have positive effects years later during middle and high school, according to a new study.
The researchers found that students attending Head Start preschools that implemented the Research-…

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Racial and ethnic disparities in STEM achievement appear earlier than thought

Education professor analyzes South Korean educational reforms

Study finds white children more likely to be overdiagnosed for ADHD

Researchers analyze costs of child sexual abuse prevention programs

White children are especially likely to be overdiagnosed and overtreated for ADHD, according to a new study

Racial and ethnic disparities in STEM achievement appear earlier than thought

Education professor analyzes South Korean educational reforms

Study finds white children more likely to be overdiagnosed for ADHD

Researchers analyze costs of child sexual abuse prevention programs

White children are especially likely to be overdiagnosed and overtreated for ADHD, according to a new study

Kindergarten children with behavior problems more likely to be bullied

Disruptive kindergartners are likely to be bullied later in elementary school

Black children in Pennsylvania have unequal access to quality preschool

Researchers study ways to make college admissions more equitable

Morgan among top 1% of researchers globally

Researchers examine link between residential and school segregation

Connecting researchers to policymakers to optimize educational equity

Research finds flawed federal monitoring of students of color with disabilities

Penn State educational and health disparities research featured

Morgan’s research cited

Morgan quoted in article about China's screen time ban

Helping special education teachers under stress

Black women with ADHD start healing, with a diagnosis at last

Morgan named AERA Fellow

Privilege plays a huge role in getting an ADHD diagnosis

Penn State early career scholars selected for postdoctoral fellowships

After School Shootings, Well-Off Families Flee and Enrollment Drops. Low-Income Kids are Left to Confront the Aftermath

Identifying children at risk of later being frequent online-technologies users

EIC Podcast on examining the delivery of special education services during COVID-19

Preschool program linked with better social and emotional skills years later

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