Leslie Fox, Ph.D. '14The School of Education’s reputation as a leader in early childhood special education and literacy research and its partnership with the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute were my reasons for applying to UNC. I wanted to learn from leaders in my field.
Building Understandings to Help All Learners
The following was adapted from a press release published by the Council for Exceptional Children’s Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities (DADD). Kara Hume, Ph.D., the Richard “Dick” Coop Faculty Scholar in Education within the UNC School of Education, was named the recipient of the 2025 Council for Exceptional Children’s Division on Autism and Developmental…
Growing up in a close-knit community in Philadelphia, surrounded by generations of her family, Maya Bracy developed a keen interest in supporting and improving the lives of children and families. Originally on a pre-med track during her undergraduate education at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., Bracy soon realized medicine was not the only way to…
Wonkyung "Won" Jang ('22 Ph.D.), an assistant professor in the department of Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum at the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa, serves as principal investigator on a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-funded project that aims to better understand how childhood peers influence the behavior and development of young children.