Introducing Teachers College
Letter from the President
As both an alumna of Teachers College and its new president, I welcome you to the nation's oldest and largest graduate school of education -- a place whose founding vision was to bring educational opportunities to all members of society, and whose faculty and students, time and again during more than a century of leadership, have demonstrated the power of ideas to change the world.
Our legacy is the work of a long list of thinkers and doers that includes James Russell and John Dewey; Lawrence Cremin and Maxine Greene; Edmund Gordon and Isabel Maitland Stewart; Mary Swartz Rose and Morton Deutsch; Arthur Wesley Dow and William Heard Kilpatrick.
These are people who created fields of inquiry. At Teachers College today, our work is about living up to their legacy by ensuring that we not only build knowledge, but enhance its impact by engaging directly with the policymakers and practitioners who will put it to use. Because of our preeminence, it is both our privilege and our obligation to focus our coursework and our research on the questions of the day in each of the fields we serve. To that end, we favor no ideology or single methodology, but instead seek answers that meet the genuine needs of teachers and other practitioners, and the children they ultimately serve.
Whether you plan to teach, conduct research, serve as an administrator, or pursue a career in health or psychology -- or even if you are already active in one of these fields -- at Teachers College, you are undertaking a journey that will change your life and the lives of others by unlocking the wonders of human potential.
As you explore this catalogue, I urge you to remember that the education you will receive at Teachers College is as much about the people you will meet -- your professors and your fellow students -- as it is about the knowledge you will find in books. So as you join with us in our work, open your hearts as well as your minds. Only then will you truly be able to say -- as I proudly do -- that you have learned everything you needed to know at Teachers College.
Susan Fuhrman,
President
Teachers College, Columbia University
KIPP Study Finds High Student Attrition Amid Big Learning Gains
Jeffrey R. Henig:"I think people's jaws will drop a little bit at that, But, this is not to say KIPP isn't helping students" Published: 9/24/2008
Dr. Arthur Levine selects Indiana to launch new program to overhaul teacher education
Dr. Arthur Levine, former president of the Teachers College said that Indiana and its universities are receptive to change. A $10 million pilot program will place some of the younger students and older scientists and mathematicians who want second careers, in local classrooms. Published: 9/18/2008
"No Child Left Behind" left behind in presidential race
Michael A. Rebell: "Both candidates have been walking very gingerly around the No Child Left Behind landmines and don't want to take a strong stand" Published: 9/17/2008
Limiting, And Watching, What Children Watch
The media buffet for children is quite a feast, is there any hope for a balanced meal? Teachers College Professor Jeanne Brooks-Gunn comments. Published: 9/17/2008
The state of Georgia faces a major challenge: getting more quality teachers into classrooms and keeping them there.
Arthur Levine, president of the Wilson foundation and the former president of Columbia University's Teachers College: "We have to take people who are older, who are proven, who have substantial careers behind them and give them much more rigorous preparation programs than we've traditionally had" Published: 9/17/2008
Do you want your children to try new foods? Try keeping them in the kitchen.
A study conducted by researchers at Teachers College suggests that involving children in meal preparation is an important first step in getting them to try new foods. Published: 9/15/2008