Features
(What is this?)
What's happening at Teachers College. In depth coverage of ideas, events and the people at the college.
Emdin's Students Rap to Success
TC's Prof. Christopher Emdin works as a consultant at MS 88 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where students write rap about geology. Published: 3/12/2010
Compelling Evidence for Mounting a Nationally Coordinated School Health Effort
TC's Charles Basch details the impact of seven educationally relevant health disparities - and how they affect students' school performance. Click here to see the video of Basch, Matt Yale of the U.S. Department of Education, Howell Wechsler of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Jane Quinn of the Children's Aid Society. Click here to access a study by Basch on this subject, and click here for summary slides of the study. Published: 3/11/2010
Seven TC Faculty Members Are Named AERA Fellows
Seven Teachers College faculty members have been named 2010 Fellows of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). The purpose of the AERA Fellows Program is to honor education researchers with substantial research accomplishments, to convey the Association's commitment to excellence in research, and to enable the next generation of emerging scholars to appreciate the value of sustained achievements in research and the breadth of scholarship worthy of recognition. The Program is intended to recognize excellence in research and be inclusive of the scholarship that constitutes and enriches education research as an interdisciplinary field. Fellows are nominated by their peers, selected and recommended by the Fellows Committee, and approved by the AERA Council, the Association's elected governing group. Published: 3/8/2010
Rebell Tracks Federal Education Bailout Funds on WNYC
Michael Rebell, director of TC's Campaign for Educational Equity, rates the after federal education stimulus package with WNYC's Brian Lehrer. Published: 2/18/2010
TC in the News
What the press is reporting on Teachers College.
Dwindling stimulus money might cost schools jobs (2/16/2010)
School budgets (2/16/2010)
Op-Eds
Opinion pieces by TC Faculty
TC Faculty Question Education Secretary's Vision
Writing in Education Week, a group of the College's faculty members query Arne Duncan on some of the ideas he laid out in his address to the TC community. Published: 1/11/2010
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
The Everyday Experiences of "Microaggressions"
Teachers College psychologist Derald Wing Sue, one of the world's most frequently cited multicultural scholars and an expert on issues of discrimination, has published a new book, Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation (John Wiley and Sons, 2010). To view a videotaped interview with Sue, click here. Released: 3/4/2010
TC Panel to Discuss National Academy of Sciences Report on Early Math Education Released: 1/26/2010
212-678-4147