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Equity Symposium: Federal Education Money Plugging Budget Holes But Not Advancing Equity
The annual Equity Symposium being conducted at TC today and tomorrow is unveiling research showing that $100 billion in federal funds going to states for school systems is not advancing equity for poor students. To read a New York Times story on research being presented at the symposium, see http://nyti.ms/a0G6KE. To read an op-ed in The Huffington Post by TC's Michael Rebell on the unconstitutionality of current school budget cuts, see http://bit.ly/9nEoRy. Published: 2/8/2010
Equity Symposium Asks: Where Is $100 Billion in Education Aid Going?
The federal government is showering states with $100 billion in aid to schools. This year's Equity Symposium, February 8 and 9, examines whether that money is going toward improving schools for poor children. Published: 1/26/2010
TC Panel to Discuss National Academy of Sciences Report on Early Math Education
Herbert Ginsburg and Sharon Lynn Kagan, who contributed to a National Academy of Sciences report on the ability of young children to learn math will discuss the report's findings at a special panel discussion on Tuesday, January 26 Published: 1/26/2010
Teachers College joins with people all over the world in expressing its horror, grief and concern about the recent earthquake in Haiti. Published: 1/13/2010
TC in the News
What the press is reporting on Teachers College.
Apps And Videogames To Keep You Healthy (1/25/2010)
Carl Anderson teaches the teachers (1/25/2010)
How to Train the Aging Brain (1/20/2010)
Op-Eds
Opinion pieces by TC Faculty
TC's Hatch Targets Flawed Assumptions in School Reform
TC faculty member Thomas Hatch argues in Education Week that many of the new school reform initiatives being promoted by the U.S. Department of Education rest on old and flawed assumptions of past efforts. Published: 12/7/2009
"Standards Aren't Enough," President Fuhrman Writes in EdWeek
Commentary in Education Week co-authored by TC President Susan Fuhrman says draft national standards are only the first step in improving education. "Curricula, tests, textbooks, lesson plans, and teachers' on-the-job training will all have to be revised to reinforce the standards," the authors write. Published: 10/8/2009
OPINION: Standards can't make separate equal
Yesterday an advocate of high academic standards and school accountability was sworn in as New York State commissioner of education. David Steiner seems convinced the best way to close the yawning achievement gaps across different racial and ethnic groups is to raise the bar via mandated standards that dictate what concepts are taught and tested in schools, while creating negative consequences for educators when students fail. Published: 10/2/2009
Obama and the Integration Generation
In a commentary piece in Education Week, TC's Amy Stuart Wells argues that Barack Obama embodies the idealism of a generation not always known for it. Published: 3/2/2009
TC Panel to Discuss National Academy of Sciences Report on Early Math Education
Herbert Ginsburg and Sharon Lynn Kagan, who contributed to a National Academy of Sciences report on the ability of young children to learn math will discuss the report's findings at a special panel discussion on Tuesday, January 26 Released: 1/26/2010
Closing the Achievement Gap by Providing Poor and Minority Students Access to Suburban Schools Released: 11/12/2009
Susan Fuhrman Assumes Presidency of National Academy of Education Released: 10/23/2009
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