Press Room: Views on the News
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TC Alumna, Synesthete and UN Employee Patricia Lynne Duffy Talks to Psychology Today
The recipient of TC's Distinguished Alumni Award says human strength is in the diversity in which we perceive the world.
Published: 2/9/2012 -
Aaron Pallas: On Teacher Evaluation, DOE Wants Efficiency, Teachers Want Fairness
But those values collide head-on in New York State education law, the Professor of Sociology and Education and frequent blogger writes on GothamSchools.
Published: 2/8/2012 -
Cahn Fellow Brett Kimmel: Create a 'To-Die-For' Place for Teachers
The New York Times' SchoolBook blog interviewed 2010 Cahn Fellow Brett Kimmel about the public school that he founded in Washington Heights, "the kind of place everybody wants to be associated with."
Published: 1/31/2012 -
Do Big-Time Sports Mean Big-Time Support for Universities?
The benefit of athletic programs to universities' bottom lines can be quantified, Judith Scott-Clayton, an Assistant Professor at TC's Community College Research Center, writes in the New York Times' Economix blog.
Published: 1/27/2012 -
Rebell, Wolff: "America does not have a general education crisis; we have a poverty crisis."
Michael Rebell, Professor of Law and Education Practice, and Jessica Wolff, Director of TC's Comprehensive Educational Opportunity Project, write in Education Week that America will attain educational equity only by addressing "substantial socioeconomic barriers" that limit school success for many.
Published: 1/19/2012 -
In Education Week, TC Alumnus Dan Brown compares his teacher prep experience with NY Teaching Fellows and Teachers College
Brown, a high school English teacher in Washington, D.C., writes that, after a highly unsatisfactory year with the New York Teaching Fellows in the Bronx, he came to Teachers College to build a "sustainable path" to a teaching career.
Published: 1/18/2012 -
Former NYC Schools Deputy Chancellor Says City's Schools Should Be Un-Zoned
Writing for the Huffington Post, the Visiting Professor of Practice says children should be admitted by lottery to any school in the city.
Published: 1/17/2012 -
"Where are the Books?" TC Trustee Jay Urwitz Decries Lack of Instructional Materials in Low-Income Schools
The Washington, DC education attorney writes in Education Week that students need access to books and the internet at home as well as at school.
Published: 12/23/2011 -
TC's Christopher Emdin Responds to Forbes Column, "If I Were a Poor Black Kid"
The Assistant Professor of Science Education draws five lessons from an opinion piece in Forbes
Published: 12/21/2011 -
Cultures of Silence: Why Penn State and other institutions don't bring wrong-doing to light - and how outsiders should react
Why Penn State and other institutions don't bring wrong-doing to light -- and how outsiders should react
Published: 12/14/2011 -
To Exercise School Choice, Parents Need Time and Money
Amy Stuart Wells, a professor of sociology and education, writes in the blog SchoolBook.com that New York's system allowing school choice works only for parents with flexible hours and can afford time off work.
Published: 12/12/2011
