Recent news from The Johns Hopkins University
This section contains regularly updated highlights of the news from around The Johns Hopkins
University. Links to the complete news reports from the nine schools,
the Applied Physics Laboratory and other centers and institutes are to
the left, as are links to help news media contact the Johns Hopkins
communications offices.
Two Johns Hopkins University researchers who study classroom stress and the emotional well-being of students and teachers have released an app that allows teachers to get daily reports about how their students are feeling.
Though the tool wasn’t created for the pandemic, it certainly has come in handy over the last year as educators struggle to keep tabs on students, especially if they’re teaching remotely.
August 18, 2021 Tags: COVID-19, Education, Johns Hopkins University, K-12, Lieny Jeon, mental health, Pandemic, schools, student well-being
| Category: Education/K-12
Children nationwide are returning to school but not all regions are following CDC guidance on mask-wearing. Johns Hopkins University experts can offer perspective and context on the mixed messages parents, teachers and students are hearing, and what educators should be doing to prepare schools.
August 12, 2021 Tags: Annette C. Anderson, Center for Safe and Healthy Schools, COVID-19, Delta, Education, Johns Hopkins University, mask mandate, Odis Johnson, schools
| Category: Education/K-12, Public Health
Though writing by hand is increasingly being eclipsed by the ease of computers, a new study finds we shouldn’t be so quick to throw away the pencils and paper: handwriting helps people learn certain skills surprisingly faster and significantly better than learning the same material through typing or watching videos.
July 23, 2021 Tags: Brenda Rapp, cognitive science, Education, handwriting, learning, learning to read, typing, Writing, writing by hand
| Category: Education/K-12, Psychology, Technology
As part of his American Families Plan President Biden is expected today to call for free preschool for all three and four-year-old children. Johns Hopkins University experts who specialize in early education, including some who helped advise Biden’s plan, are available to offer context, commentary and perspective.
April 28, 2021 Tags: Biden, Chris Swanson, Education, Lieny Jeon, Linda Carling, preschool
| Category: Education/K-12, Government and Politics
Schools, teachers and parents nationwide are now grappling with how best to help students who might have fallen behind after more than a year of interrupted learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In some districts, parents are being asked to consider holding children back a grade.
David Steiner, director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, is available to discuss how schools can help students make up for these missed months of education, and, how retention might not be the best solution.
March 25, 2021 Tags: COVID-19, David M. Steiner, Education, Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, Johns Hopkins University, Pandemic, remote education, retention
| Category: Education/K-12
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected on Friday to release guidance on the safe reopening of schools. Johns Hopkins University experts, including experts from the university’s Center for Safe and Healthy Schools, which has been studying the complex question of what it will take for the nation to safely return students to school, will be available for perspective and commentary on the CDC update.
February 11, 2021 Tags: Annette C. Anderson, CDC, Center for Safe and Healthy Schools, COVID-19, Education, Johns Hopkins University, Odis Johnson, Pandemic, school re-opening
| Category: Education/K-12, Public policy
Incorporating the arts—rapping, dancing, drawing—into science lessons can help low-achieving students retain more knowledge and possibly help students of all ability levels be more creative in their learning, finds a new study by Johns Hopkins University.
March 5, 2019 Tags: arts, Education, K-12 Education, Mariale Hardiman, School of Education, STEM
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Education/K-12
The more crime that occurs along a student’s way to school, the higher the likelihood that student will be absent, Johns Hopkins University researchers found.
February 13, 2019 Tags: Baltimore, crime, Education, Johns Hopkins University, Julia Burdick-Will, school commute
| Category: Education/K-12, Social Sciences
Having one black teacher in elementary school not only makes children more likely to graduate high school, it makes them significantly more likely to enroll in college.
November 12, 2018 Tags: college, Education, inequality, Johns Hopkins University, Nicholas W. Papageorge, one black teacher, race, teaching
| Category: Business and Economics, Education/K-12
At the annual meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, the nation’s largest gathering of black elected officials, about 100 students from Baltimore City’s Dunbar High School will participate in an event called the STEAM Revolt Youth Workshop: Wakanda Design Challenge. In this interactive contest, students, who are part of Dunbar’s P-TECH college prep program, will create a new Avengers superhero with ties to African culture.
September 12, 2018 Tags: Baltimore City, Black Panther, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Education, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins University, K-12 Education, P-TECH, STEAM
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Business and Economics, Education/K-12, Institutional News, Technology
Children who attend school with many kids from violent neighborhoods show significantly lower test scores than peers with classmates from safer areas, according to a new Johns Hopkins University study.
June 12, 2018 Tags: Chicago, Education, Johns Hopkins University, Julia Burdick-Will, School, school choice, standardized test scores, violence
| Category: Education/K-12
Though learning is their stock and trade, educators are often removed from research on how people learn. To address this, Johns Hopkins University’s Science of Learning Institute has invited 150 teachers and administrators from around the world to Baltimore for a day to meet scientists doing cutting-edge research on the brain and learning.
July 24, 2017 Tags: brain, Education, educators, Johns Hopkins University, learning, Science, Science in Action Day, Science of Learning Institute, teachers
| Category: Education/K-12
Low-income black students who have at least one black teacher in elementary school are significantly more likely to graduate high school and consider attending college, concludes a new study co-authored by a Johns Hopkins University economist.
April 5, 2017 Tags: black students, black teachers, college, Education, graduation, Johns Hopkins University, Nicholas W. Papageorge, poverty, race, race match effect, role model effect
| Category: Business and Economics, Education/K-12
A program that brings live fish into classrooms to teach the fundamentals of biology not only helps students learn, but improves their attitudes about science, a new study finds.
November 10, 2016 Tags: Baltimore, BioEYES, biology, Education, fish, Johns Hopkins University, K-12 Education, Science, STEM, Steven A. Farber, zebrafish
| Category: biology, Education/K-12
Young African-Americans from some of the country’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods are drawn to for-profit post-secondary trade schools, believing they are the quickest route to jobs. But a new study co-authored by a Johns Hopkins University sociologist finds the very thing that makes for-profit schools seem so appealing — a streamlined curriculum — is the reason so many poor students drop out.
September 15, 2016 Tags: Baltimore, Education, for-profit colleges, sociology, Stefanie DeLuca
| Category: Business and Economics, Education/K-12, Social Sciences
Although math skills are considered notoriously hard to improve, Johns Hopkins University researchers boosted kindergarteners’ arithmetic performance simply by exercising their intuitive number sense with a quick computer game.
June 15, 2016 Tags: Approximate Number System, brain science, Education, Johns Hopkins University, kindergarteners, Lisa Feigenson, Math
| Category: Education/K-12, Psychology
When evaluating the same black student, white teachers expect significantly less academic success than black teachers, a new Johns Hopkins University study concludes. This is especially true for black boys.
March 30, 2016 Tags: economics, Education, Nicholas W. Papageorge, race, teacher expectations, teachers
| Category: Education/K-12, Social Sciences
Johns Hopkins University graduate programs in nursing, education, medicine, and biomedical engineering remain among the best in the nation, according to the newest U.S. News & World Report rankings of “Best Graduate Schools.”
March 16, 2016 Tags: biomedical engineering, Education, Engineering, graduate schools, rankings, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, U.S. News & World Report
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Uncategorized
Three Johns Hopkins University researchers whose 2014 book traced the lives of nearly 800 Baltimore City public school students for a quarter of a century have won the prestigious $100,000 Grawemeyer Award in Education.
December 3, 2015 Tags: Baltimore City, Education, Grawemeyer, Karl Alexander, sociology, The Long Shadow
| Category: Education/K-12, Social Sciences