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TC’s Understanding Fiscal Responsibility curriculum is launched
Friday, May 04, 2012
On May 2, 2012, Teachers College hosted the launch of a new high school curriculum on Understanding Fiscal Responsibility. The event created a platform for conversation among leading policy analysts, educators, and economists on how to engage students in [...]
Academic Festival 2012
Friday, April 06, 2012
Social Studies Professor Anand Marri, Instructor Thomas Chandler, and Doctoral Student Ellen Livingston will be participating in the 2012 Academic Festival! Banking on our Future: Kids and Financial Literacy Moderated by Pola Rosen (EdD ’80), Publisher, [...]
Looking back: TC alum Ben Jacobs examines the history of Social Studies education
Monday, February 13, 2012
Social Studies program alum Ben Jacobs is still cultivating a passion for research that was born and bred at TC. “I think that, by studying the history of the Social Studies field, we gain the best and broadest sense of how some of the enduring ideas, [...]
INSTEP: Action research projects and voices of change
Monday, February 06, 2012
Students in their third year of the Social Studies INSTEP program recently gathered at TC in an intensive workshop focused on fine-tuning their Action Research Project. With two summer sessions down and one to go, students are in the final stages of the [...]
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Social Studies student is recipient of Dean’s Doctoral Research Fellowship
Social Studies doctoral student Ashley Taylor is the recipient of the Dean’s Doctoral Research Fellowship for the 2012-2013 academic year. Taylor has been awarded the Fellowship for her dissertation work, titled Pedagogy for Latino/a Newcomer Students: A [...]
Travel’s Impact on Teaching
Social Studies doctoral student Tim Patterson’s research aims to investigate the extent to which traveling influences how teachers view the content they are teaching. By studying a group of Social Studies educators as they learn about Chinese history and [...]
The 1893 Chicago World’s Fair: Implications for the U.S. – China Relationship
Social Studies doctoral student Amy Mungur is using the past to look toward the future. Her pilot study looks to the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago as a framework to examine the relationship between the US and China. By examining how the Chinese Exclusion [...]
Student Spotlight: Jay Shuttleworth
Jay is a Social Studies and Education Ph.D. candidate. He consults with new teachers in the South Bronx and recently began a two-year preceptorship in Columbia College’s Core Preceptor Program. Jay was a History major at the University of California [...]
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Anand Marri and Scott Wylie published in Social Education
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
An article by TC Social Studies Associate Professor Anand Marri and doctoral candidate Scott Wylie can be seen in last month’s Social Education. Former TC Social Studies program coordinator and current dean of the University of Iowa College of [...]
Sandra Schmidt published in Social Education
Monday, November 14, 2011
The Social Studies program is pleased to announce that its newest faculty member, Sandra Schmidt, has been published in last month’s Social Education. Her article, “Who Lives on the Other Side of That Boundary: A Model of Geographic [...]
New Faculty Profile: Sandra Schmidt
Friday, September 30, 2011
Welcoming the Social Studies Program’s new professor, Dr. Sandra Schmidt! [...]
TC Professor to Lead Pedagogy Sessions at Yale University Council on Middle East Studies
Thursday, May 19, 2011
TC Adjunct Associate Professor Jean-Marc Oppenheim will be leading the pedagogy sessions at Yale University’s Council on Middle East Studies this summer. The program is intended to familiarize educators with issues related to the Middle East and to [...]