Honoring a Legacy for Generations to Come
The fifth annual iteration of the College’s signature homecoming event – themed “Celebrating a Tradition for Tomorrow” in recognition of TC’s 125th anniversary – was designed to “reflect our goal to honor and advance the TC legacy for generations to come” read more...
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from the Wise
Up next in TC's "Mini Moments with Big Thinkers" series are international education scholar Gita Steiner-Khamsi; early childhood education expert Celia Genishi; school equity and finance authority Michael Rebell; Nahas Angula (Ed.M., 1979; M.A., 1978), former Prime Minister of Namibia; and psychologist Derald Wing Sue.
A Banner Year Continues
First it was the bus shelters, now it's the streets. The first in an ongoing series of banners celebrating the College's academic strengths and alumni have gone up along Broadway, between 110th and 114th Sts. and again between 118th and 120th Sts. and on 120th between Broadway and Amsterdam Ave. Read More...TC Media Center
A Summer TESOL Program is Drawing Many Career Changers
The 2013 Teachers College TESOL summer certificate program is drawing many applicants like Joy, a successful book designer who, when she volunteered at a local literacy center, had no idea that she was taking the first step into a new career.
TC's Barbara Tversky is Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Barbara Tversky, an internationally recognized cognitive psychologist whose expertise includes spatial language and thinking, event perception and cognition, diagram production and comprehension, and gesture, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
TC's Tom Rock Receives NAGAP Distinguished Service Award
Thomas P. Rock (Ed.D.'02),TC's Executive Director of Enrollment Services, has received the 2013 Distinguished Service Award of NAGAP, the National Association of Graduate Admissions Professionals.
Alumna Helen Streubert Named President of St. Elizabeth College
Streubert will be the first lay person to lead the 114-year old Catholic college, located in Morristown, New Jersey.
TC Alumna Carol Burris Named New York Principal of the Year
Carol Burris (EdD '03), who has been a passionate advocate for challenging curricula for all of her students at South Side High School in Rockville Centre, NY, as well as an outspoken critic of reforms in New York State, has been named New York State's new High School Principal of the Year.
“Same Old Stories”: The Black Male in Social Science and Educational Literature, 1930s to the Present
This article historically documents the social science and educational literature about African American males from the 1930s to the present. While providing an overview of these historical periods, this study also focuses on how these discussions have helped to construct a stable and fixed narrative about African American males.
Factors Related to Educational Resilience Among Sudanese Unaccompanied Minors
The present article uses the risk and resilience framework to understand educational resilience and factors affecting educational attainment of unaccompanied Sudanese minors, who were resettled with American foster families. Given their limited prior educational experience and the new challenges that these youth faced in their new homeland, it would be logical to assume their educational failures in the U.S. schools. In contrast, most youth were able to finish high school. We explored the factors that helped Sudanese youth to excel in schools.
The Dirty Dozen: How Charter Schools Influence Student Enrollment
This commentary offers a classification of twelve different approaches that charter schools use to structure their student enrollment. These practices impact the likelihood of students enrolling with a given set of characteristics, be it higher (or lower) test scores, students with ‘expensive' disabilities, English learners, students of color, or students in poverty.
NSSE Yearbooks for 2013
The editors of the Teachers College Record are pleased to announce the NSSE Yearbooks for 2013.
TC Today
The Alumni Magazine of Teachers College, Columbia University
Annual Report
The Teachers College Annual Report
For 110 years, Teachers College Press has addressed the ideas that matter most to educators, opening and expanding the dialogue between theory and practice.
TC Press Wins Back-to-back Grawemeyer Awards
Pasi Sahlberg's "Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?" won the 2013 Grawemeyer Award in Education, following up on Linda Darling-Hammond's 2012 win for "The Flat World in Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future".
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Anita Pandey on WUWM
TCP author Anita Pandey speaks with Amy Kiley of WUWM Milwaukee Public Radio's show, Lake Effect, about her book Language Building Blocks.
Neuman and Celano win Prose Award
Susan B. Neuman and Donna C. Celano's "Giving Our Children a Fighting Chance" gains an Honorable Mention in the Education category.
Schmidt and McKnight featured in "American Educator"
An exploration of Schmidt and McKnight's "Inequality for All: The Challenge of Unequal Opportunity in American Schools" featured as lead story in American Educator's Spring 2013 Issue.
"Finnish Lessons" in "International Review of Education"
Pasi Sahlberg's "Finnish Lessons" was featured in the International Review of Education (pdf available for download).
ForeWord "Book of the Year Award" Finalists
Three TCP books finaled in the education category: Giving Our Children a Fighting Chance by Neuman and Celano, Professional Capital by Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan, and We Don't Need Another Hero by Greg Michie.
Using the Faculty Expertise Guide
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Mini Moments With Big Thinkers
A weekly series of excerpts from the TC Oral History Project highlighting a half-century of groundbreaking ideas, research and initiatives from TC.
