Lynch School of Education and Human Development

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#19

ranked graduate school of education
U.S. News & World Report

#1

ranked Catholic school of education
U.S. News & World Report

$8.4M

financial aid awarded each year

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Featured Research

Our faculty researchers are pursuing answers to society's most pressing challenges, from racial inequality in the classroom to youth mental health. Learn about their projects.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Justice

“The architecture of diversity and difference enables us as faculty to advance a broader, richer, and deeper understanding of how professionals in education and applied psychology can create a more just and compassionate world.”
Ana M. Martínez Alemán, Associate Dean of Faculty & Academic Affairs
“The Lynch School has a wonderful and distinctive mission: to enhance the human condition, expand the human imagination, and make the world more just. Through our research, teaching, and service, we strive to understand and create opportunities for others to develop as whole people across multiple interrelated dimensions—intellectually, spiritually, socially, emotionally, and ethically. ”
Stanton E. F. Wortham, Charles F. Donovan, S.J., Dean, Lynch School of Education and Human Development

Events

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Computational Thinking and Character Development for Kids

As content director of the new PBS Kids series Work It Out Wombats!, Augustus Long Professor of Education Marina Bers is teaching the next generation to think creatively, confront problems, and in the process, develop virtue.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Banquet

BC Institute for the Study of Race and Culture Director Alex Pieterse, a faculty member in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development, will be the keynote speaker at this year's scholarship event.
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Lynch School doctoral student celebrated in ILA's 30 under 30

Doctoral candidate in the Curriculum and Instruction program, Kierstin Guinco lands a spot in the International Literacy Association's 30 under 30.

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Lynch School launches Catholic Education Research Initiative

Professor Shaun Dougherty leads the Lynch School's brand-new Catholic Education Research Initiative (CERI).

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An educational experience like no other

Led by Matt DelSesto ’12, Boston College undergraduates are learning side-by-side with incarcerated students at a local prison, with mutually beneficial results
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Have we lost touch with our most important sense?

In this episode of Pulled Up Short, Dean Stanton Wortham and Richard Kearney explore why touch may be our most important—and most neglected—human sense.

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