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College of Education assistant professor Ilana Umansky is part of a team of researchers exploring how to improve educational opportunities, experiences...

Leveraging Soft Skills to Improve College and Career Readiness Neag School of Education associate professor Jennifer Freeman is working to improve college and career readiness for students with emotional and behavioral disorders. Image by Dickson Donatus from Pixabay Copy Link The transition from high school to college or the workforce is a major one for all students. While high schools work to ensure their graduates are prepared, students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) often find themselves lacking the non-academic skills they need to succeed. Through a col...

Outgoing Trump nominates aides to public institutions AFP 22/12/2020 AFP © Andrej ISAKOVIC President Donald Trump has nominated Richard Grenell, a special envoy appointed by the prresident, to the Board of Trustees of the Holocaust Memorial in Washington DC While publicly denying he lost the election, outgoing President Donald Trump on Tuesday appointed several key aides to the boards of public institutions, a sign he is planning for his departure from the White House despite his refusal to concede. Trump, who is due to hand over to Democratic President-elect Joe Biden on...

December 17, 2020 Pexels Giving kids opportunities to participate in imaginative play enables them to broaden their bright minds and creativity. Playing wizards or superheroes amongst themselves may appeal to adults as just simple childish antics, but as it turns out, it plays a crucial role in child development.  The importance of pretend play during childhood may even have positive effects on how your child can perceive emotions, according to a study published in the British Journal of Psychology. Researchers found that using pretend play as a teaching tool helps children in improving the...

In memoriam Irena Veisaitė: ‘I never doubted that I was Jewish’ 176 Irena Veisaitė / LRT Last Friday, Irena Veisaitė, a Jewish-Lithuanian literary scholar and Holocaust survivor, passed away at the age of 92. She had Covid-19. LRT.lt presents excerpts from interviews with Veisaitė collected in the book by Aurimas Švedas, Life Should Be Transparent. Born in Kaunas in 1928, Veisaitė was a known intellectual, theatre scholar, and human rights activist. Veisaitė's mother died in the Kaunas Ghetto during World War Two. She herself was later sheltered by a non-Jewish family. After the wa...