News You Can Use
Issue 7, Spring 2010

News You Can Use is an e-mail on important new developments at Teachers College, Columbia University in research, practice and policy in education, health, psychology and related fields. If you prefer not to continue receiving News You Can Use, you may unsubscribe by clicking on the link at the bottom of this e-mail.

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Research and Publications
New Findings from TC Faculty and Students

Faculty Books on Grief, Music Education, School Reform, Leveraging Diversity, and Bilingual Education

Measuring School Readiness in Very Young Children

Closing the Achievement Gap by Providing Poor and Minority Students Access to Suburban Schools

A Book on How Younger Faculty Protect Their Creative Energies

A Book on the Success of the Educational Adequacy Movement

TC Researchers Explore Racial Microaggressions in the Classroom

How Robots Can Help Children Learn

Can After-School Programs Narrow the Achievement Gap?

Youth Organizations and Their Role in Lessening the Exposure to Violence among Urban Youth

Summer Research Program for Science Teachers Boosts Regents Exams Pass Rate

For a detailed listing of all publications by TC faculty since the last News You Can Use, click here.

Opinions
Thoughts and Ideas

"Standards Aren't Enough," President Fuhrman Writes in Education Week

TC's Hatch Targets Flawed Assumptions in School Reform

TC Faculty Question Arne Duncan's Ideas

The Promise and Perils of Charter Schools

CCRC's Jenkins and Bailey Call for Sweeping Changes and More Federal Money for Community Colleges

Supporting National Standards

Standards Can’t Make Separate Equal

Educational Budget Cuts: Unconscionable – And Unconstitutional

In The Field
Model Outreach Efforts in NYC and Worldwide

Philosophy in the Trenches

Journalism, Heal Thyself

Special Event Webcast!On Tuesday, March 9th, from 3-5 tune in to a Webcast from TC in which Charles Basch, Richard March Hoe Professor of Health Education, discusses seven health risks that disproportionately affect the educational achievement of low-income minority youth. Basch will be joined by Matthew Yale, Deputy Chief of Staff to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and Howell Wechsler, Director of the Division of Adolescent School Health (DASH) for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Register for the Webcast.

Policy News
Teachers College Impacts Education Policy

A Round-Table on Common Core Learning Standards

Top New York State Education Officials Outline Their Plans

The Secretary Calls for a Sea Change

Helping the World’s Poorest Countries Set Early Childhood Learning Standards

Improving the Health of a Field that Preserves It

Federal Education Stimulus Money Is Plugging Budget Holes But Not Being Used for Innovation or to Advance Equity

Programs and Students
Innovations in Curriculum and Student Experience

Teaching Kids About the National Debt

A Technology Program That Helps Non-Native English Speakers Put Pen to Paper

Taking Democracy Live: TC Brings Social Studies Into the 21st Century

TC People of Interest
Our Movers and Shakers

Seven TC Faculty Members Are Named AERA Fellows

Susan Fuhrman Assumes Presidency of National Academy of Education

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn Is Elected to the Institute of Medicine

John Allegrante Is Named Editor of Health Education and Behavior

TC in Social Media
Join, Link With, Follow and Experience