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Wealthy, Suburban Children Experience Substance Abuse, Depression and Anxiety at a Higher Rate than Inner-City Kids.
Research by Suniya Luthar, Professor of Psychology and Education, finds that the ever-escalating pressure on children to succeed has fostered an "at-risk" group afraid of falling behind.
Published: 5/13/2013 -
A Book as Diverse as its Topic
James Banks and TC contributors discuss the new Encyclopedia of Diversity
Published: 4/26/2013 -
Community College Study Finds Online Courses Not Always Effective
A small study by TC's Community College Research Center found that students retained less from online courses than from traditional ones.
Published: 4/26/2013 -
TC at AERA 2013
Some 172 faculty, students and others affiliated with Teachers College will present at "Education and Poverty: Theory, Research, Policy and Praxis," this year's meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), which will be held in San Francisco from April 27-May 1.
Published: 4/26/2013 -
Wall Street Journal: TC's Robot Is Peer Learner at Harlem School
Assistant Professor Sandra Okita made Projo, a human-like robot that sometimes makes mistakes, to study how kids learn
Published: 4/10/2013 -
Preparing Educators to Think About Health
In this year's Tisch lecture, Howell Wechsler calls on TC and other schools of education to embrace health as part of their mission
Published: 3/29/2013 -
Online Education Works Less Well For Certain Student Groups
In February, a paper issued from Teachers College's Community College Research Center found that males, black students and students with lower levels of academic preparation experienced "significantly stronger negative coefficients for online learning compared with their counterparts, in terms of both course persistence and course grade."
Published: 3/28/2013 -
Harnessing Culture to End Health Disparities
The College's fifth annual conference on health disparities is highlighted by the launch of a new center and a call for a new paradigm of adapting coping to cultural differences
Published: 3/25/2013 -
Hip-Hop and Health
Using an urban art form to understand "the broken health of a population"
Published: 3/24/2013 -
How to Determine ROI for Education Reform
Work by TC's Henry Levin and colleagues is helping to create a new science
Published: 3/18/2013 -
TC's Lesley Bartlett is honored by the Comparative and International Education Society
An article co-authored by Lesley Bartlett, Associate Professor of Education, has received honorable mention in the competition for the 2012 George Bereday Award, which recognizes the best article published in the journal Comparative Education Review (CER).
Published: 3/18/2013
