Press Room: Policy
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TC Reprises Renowned Superintendents Conference
The 68th annual Superintendents Work Conference will be held on July 28 and 29 for local superintendents juggling competing reform pressures and shrinking budgets.
Published: 7/26/2011 -
Research Center for Arts and Culture, Long Based at TC, Will Join the National Center for Creative Aging
A pioneering initiative expands its mission
Published: 6/13/2011 -
"Cooperation Matters"
The new Center takes an interdisciplinary approach to problem-solving research in the public sector by combining the effort of Priscilla Wolhstetter at TC with Columbia's Schools of Law, Business and Social Work.
Published: 3/31/2011 The Best Policy
A new department will centralize the College's interdisciplinary policy work and bring together some of the nation's leading experts.
Published: 1/13/2011-
Education Reform in the U.S. and England
An education policy discussion on November 8 with Geoffrey Whitty, Director of the Institute of Education, London
Published: 11/3/2010 -
Community Colleges Must Improve, Conference Speakers Say
Many community college students need remedial coursework, but new research on innovative programs offers some hope.
Published: 9/30/2010 -
TC Faculty Still "Waiting for Superman"
TC screened "Waiting for Superman," the controversial new documentary about five families trying to get their children into charter schools. A panel of TC faculty discussed the film in the Cowin Center auditorium.
Published: 9/20/2010 -
Bailey to Lead National Committee on Success Measures at Two-Year Colleges
Thomas Bailey, TC's George and Abby O'Neill Professor Economics and Education, will lead a new national committee that will recommend steps for two-year colleges to comply with federal graduation and completion-rate disclosure requirements.
Published: 6/4/2010 -
TC's Basch Participates in White House Meeting on "Let's Move" Initiative
Charles Basch, Richard March Hoe Professor of Health Education, was one of a small group of people from around the nation to participate in a meeting at the White House on April 9th that focused on First Lady Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign to prevent childhood obesity.
Published: 5/7/2010 -
TC at AERA 2010
This year's annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), themed "Understanding Complex Ecologies in a Changing World," which will be held April 30 - May 4 in Denver, will include the participation of nearly 175 TC faculty and students. Highlights follow; for a more comprehensive listing of TC participation in the 2010 AERA annual conference, please visit www.tc.edu/aera2010Published: 4/30/2010
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It Will Take Faith to Close the Gap
Peter Groff, Director of the U.S. Department of Education's Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, keynoted "Write the Vision: Make it Clear," a day-long conference on the role of the faith-based community in closing the education achievement gap, hosted by TC's Vice President's Office for Diversity and Community Affairs and the College's Black Student Network.
Published: 4/7/2010
