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Recent Press

• The Cahn Fellows Program continues to identify principals that are leading outstanding schools
• Program co-founder, director and principals describe the Cahn Fellows Program
  
• School Finds Economics of Success
  WSJ.com
  
• Helping the Best get Better
  TC Today article and Cahn Fellow principal videos, Teachers College, Columbia University May 13, 2010
  
• Principals of Excellence Awards 2007
  Time Warner, 2007
  
• Principal Michael Alcoff's Teachers' Preparatory Secondary School Given Top Nationwide Ranking
  US News and World Report, 2010
  
• The Cahn Fellows Program is proud to report that:
  • Students at Fellows' schools well outperform peers in other schools with similar demographic characteristics (School Principals and School Performance [Damon Clark, Paco Martorell, and Jonah E. Rockoff; CALDER Working Paper No. 38, December 2009)
  • On average, math and English achievement test scores improve in Fellows' schools after they enter the program ... this is on par with improvements we estimate for new principals over the first five years of experience running their school (Report on the Evaluation of the Cahn Fellows Program)
• Cahn Fellows Program Extends Work of NYC Leadership Academy
  Press Release, Teachers College, Columbia University
  June 2009
  
• Extolling the Virtues of Mayoral Control of NYC Schools
  Teachers College News
  February 16, 2009
• Business, But Not as Usual
  Teachers College News
  February 9, 2009
• Chinese Principals Visit TC, New York City Public Schools
  Teachers College News
  December 1, 2008
• In Bronx School, Culture Shock, Then Revival
  New York Times
  February 8, 2008
• Organizing Principal: In the South Bronx, Ramn Gonzalez gives a troubled middle school a kidcentric makeover
  Smithsonian Magazine
  October, 2007
• Helping the Best Learn from Each Other: The Cahn Fellows Program matches top NYC principals up with the best teachers: their peers
  TC Today, The Alumni Magazine of Teachers College, Columbia University
  June 15, 2007
• Taking the Middle Schoolers Out of the Middle
  New York Times
  January 22, 2007
  
• June Tempts with Distraction, But There's Still Learning to be Done
  New York Times
  June 22, 2006
  
• Teachers College Cahn Fellows Program Welcomes 22 Distinguished NYC Principals for 2006-2007 Cohort
  Press Release, Teachers College, Columbia University
  April 25, 2006
  
• Lightning Rod for Fury Over Schools' Gifted Programs
  New York Times
  March 22, 2006
  
• Power Principals
  TC Today, The Alumni Magazine of Teachers College, Columbia University
  April 2005
  
• 2005 Cohort of New York City's Top Principals to Hone their Skills at the Cahn Fellows Program
  Press Release, Teachers College, Columbia University April 2005
  
• Spreading the Words: Young authors share with younger readers
  New York Daily News January 17, 2005
  
• Lily Woo, a NYC School Principal in the Cahn Fellows Program at Teachers College, Columbia University, Selected to Carry Olympic Global Torch
  Press Release, Teachers College, Columbia University
  June 19, 2004
  
• How Many Good Principals are there in NYC?
  by J. Kirsten Busch, Founding Director of the Cahn Fellows Program
  Education Update
  June 2004
  
• More than 50 NYC School Principals to Attend Spring Leadership Summit May 27th at Teachers College, Columbia University
  Press Release, Teachers College, Columbia University
  May 27, 2004
  
• Eighteen New York City Principals Attend Summer Leadership Institute at Teachers College, Columbia University through The Cahn Fellows Program for Distinguished New York City Principals
  Press Release, Teachers College, Columbia University
  July 17, 2003
  
• The Cahn Fellows Program for Distinguished New York City Principals Holds Its First Leadership Seminar
  Press Release, Teachers College, Columbia University
  June 2003
  
• The Cahn Fellows Program for Distinguished New York City Principals to Hold Its First Leadership Seminar
  Press Release, Teachers College, Columbia University
  May 28, 2003
  
• The Charles and Jane Cahn Fellowship Program for Distinguished New York City School Principals
  Press Release, Teachers College, Columbia University
  December 2002