COVID-19
COVID-19 Impact Drives Interest in Positive Youth Development
As pandemic social-distancing rules relax, young people are returning to school, summer camp, daycare, and other in-person activities. Teachers, counselors, program directors, social workers, and other supporters are helping them adjust to post-pandemic life—and it’s far from easy. “Kids are feeling the effects of more than two years of staying in their houses and not […]
The Teacher Workforce and the Impact of COVID-19
As it started to become clear that the COVID-19 pandemic would have an impact across multiple schools years, concerns regarding what some called a “mass exodus” of teachers began to rise. Despite these fears, a recent report by Olivia Chi and Andrew Bacher-Hicks that explores the impact of COVID-19 on the teacher workforce of Massachusetts […]
Tips from Child Life: Helping Children Receive the COVID-19 Vaccine
Now that the Omicron variant has arrived and COVID-19 cases are again on the rise, many parents and caregivers are eager for their children to be vaccinated. Although having children vaccinated is an important step, many children are afraid of getting the shot. As a student in the Child Life program at BU Wheelock, I […]
Teacher Diversity Increased in Massachusetts during COVID-19 Pandemic
New research from Boston University’s Wheelock Education Policy Center (WEPC) finds increases in the racial and ethnic diversity of teachers hired for the 2020–2021 Massachusetts school year. This was particularly true in schools serving the state’s highest concentrations of Black and Latinx students, where roughly 41% of newly hired teachers were people of color. These […]
Student Voices: Optimism and Adaptation in the Face of COVID-19
As a child life student, I eagerly anticipated my child life internships throughout my academic career. I was excited to begin applying my theoretical knowledge and begin gaining hands-on experience in the field. Child life specialists are developmental experts who work to help children and their families cope with the stressors of hospitalization. They work […]
Doctoral Student Awarded AERA Research Grant
Glenn Research Fellow Kristabel Stark, a doctoral student in special education, has received a grant from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) to study the effects of COVID-19 on pre-service teachers at the community college level. The grant, which is part of AERA’s Education Research Service Project Special Call focusing on the COVID-19 and systemic racism […]
Study Explores COVID-19 Impact on Families’ Engagement with Online Learning
Andrew Bacher-Hicks and Joshua Goodman, faculty members in BU Wheelock’s Educational Leadership & Policy Studies program, have released a new pandemic-related study in Education Next. Their working paper, “Inequality in Household Adaptation to Schooling Shocks: COVID-Induced Online Learning Engagement in Real-Time,” examines how students and their families adapted to and engaged with online learning as […]
Raising Awareness About the Impact of COVID-19 on Asian Americans
Doctoral student Anna Lim Franck is a Glenn Research Fellow in the Educational Studies program with a specialization in Language & Literacy Education. She is a research assistant for Naomi Caselli’s ASL-LEX and ASL Vocabulary Acquisition Project and Amy Lieberman’s Language Acquisition & Visual Attention Lab. She recently finished collaborating on the video Anti-Asian Racism […]
Partnership Supports COVID-19 Stress Education Course for Schools
Jennifer Greif Green, associate professor in BU Wheelock’s special education program, has partnered with Medway Public Schools to develop an online COVID-19 stress and anxiety educational course for students. The online course is designed to help students in grades 5–12 understand the difference between stress and anxiety; learn about different ways of managing their stress; […]
Watch: Dean David Chard Joins “World After Coronavirus”
Dean David J. Chard joined Adil Najam, dean of the Pardee School of Global Studies and former director of the Pardee Center, to talk about the future on education on the latest episode of “The World After Coronavirus.” This video series, produced by Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at the […]