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Lora Henderson Smith and her longtime partner, Dustina Gill, are expanding their work with Indigenous youth with a new Spencer Foundation grant.

With a new postdoctoral fellowship award in hand, Alexa Rodriguez is digging deep into the history of education in the Dominican Republic.

A new grant will fund the work of a multi-disciplinary team of researchers in partnership with the states of Tennessee and Utah.

Howard C. Stevenson, an expert on how to resolve racial stress and trauma, delivered the 2024 Walter N. Ridley Distinguished Lecture at the UVA School of Education and Human Development.

This Black History Month, counseling education professor Natoya Haskins discusses her research on how the history of spirituality in Black communities can inform effective counseling practices.

Three School of Education and Human Development faculty members received a $321,000 large research grant from the Spencer Foundation to conduct a mixed-methods study engaging African American children in participatory research.

UVA is celebrating a record-breaking research funding year with a multipart series featuring some of the people who helped make it happen.

One year after the dedication of two benches honoring Louise Stokes Hunter at the School of Education and Human Development, Sanjeev Kumar (Col, Com '23) reflects on the process of launching the initiative that honored women and people of color who served as change agents in the UVA and Charlottesville communities.

Professor Kimberly Jenkins Robinson is the inaugural director of the unit, which aims to ensure all students get a high-quality K-12 education.

This commentary was originally published by Greater Good Magazine, where you can view the entire piece with linked citations and sources. We asked students of color what school is like for them. Here...