Mission of Center

We seek to contribute to a better understanding of education development in China and to strengthen education relationship between the United States and China.

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Affiliated Faculty

The following faculty members at Teachers College are interested in Chinese education and in participating in activities of CoCE.

Name	Interest/Expertise
George Bonanno	Resilience and coping with grief and trauma. Emotion and emotion regulation. The adaptive consequences of self-deception. Website for the PURL study (bereavement): http://www.tc.edu/thePURLstudy Website for the Emotion, Stress, and Relationship Lab: http://devweb.tc.columbia.edu/research/esrl/
Kevin Dougherty	The community college. Higher education policy and reform. Higher education finance. College students. K-12 educational reform. Sociology of education. Prof. Dougherty's current research is focused on the origins and consequences of state accountability systems for higher education (particularly performance funding), the growing commercialization of university research, and state policies affecting access to, and success in, community colleges by minority and low-income students. In the past, Professor Dougherty has done extensive research and writing on the historical origins and impact on students of community colleges, the role of higher education in economic and workforce development, and reform movements in elementary and secondary education (especially school choice, charter schools, and performance standards).
Anne Goodwin	Teacher education for urban and multicultural contexts. Teacher beliefs. Equity education. Asian American educational experiences and identity development.
ZhaoHong Han	Second language learnability Second language teachability Comparative grammar Language typology The interface of lexical semantics and syntax Linguistic relativity Second language reading processes
Luis Huerta	education policy decentralization in education school choice (charter schools, vouchers, home schooling, tuition tax credits) privatization in education school finance
Henry Levin	Economics of education. Cost-effectiveness analysis. School reform. Educational vouchers.
Xiaodong Lin	Metacognition and problem solving, technology-mediated cultural interactions and their impact on teacher professional development and reflection, and student domain subject understanding, influence of technology-rich learning environments on lesson development, trans-cultural collaboration among teachers and students
Stephen Peverly	His research focuses on 2 areas: (a) the cognitive processes that underlie reading comprehension and studying, and (b) cross-cultural differences between U.S. and Chinese children in mathematical performance and the reasons for differences in performance. He teaches course on memory, reading comprehension and studying, and law and ethics for school psychologists.
Francisco Rivera-Batiz	Education and economic development. International and public affairs. Race, ethnicity and gender in the labor market. Immigrants and education. The Latino population of the United States.
Frances Schoonmaker	Curriculum, teaching, and supervision (K-12): history, theory and practice. Teacher preparation. Caring and values education. International education. Religious education.
Mun Tsang	Costs and financing of education. Chinese education policy. Education and economic development.