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New Jersey's Decades-Long School Finance Case: So, What's the Payoff?
In its pathbreaking Abbott v. Burke decision in 1990, the New Jersey Supreme Court laid the groundwork for providing extra state resources for 32 poor, urban school districts, dubbed the Abbott districts. Last May, following two decades of legal and legislative adjustments, the court allowed New Jersey to remove the Abbott designation, saying that, except for special cases like preschool and construction funding, poorer districts no longer needed the state's help in providing educational resources equal to those provided by wealthier communities. Published: 11/19/2009
President Fuhrman Outlines the State of the College
TC President Fuhrman gave her 2009 State of the College Address on October 28th. Her theme was the College's impact - locally, nationally and internationally. The full transcript of her remarks follows. Published: 11/6/2009
Mourning the loss of a loved one is painful. But TC Professor of Clinical Psychology George Bonanno says that most people have an innate resilience that allows them to mourn and move on with their lives - and further, that they emerge better for the process. Published: 11/5/2009
Susan Fuhrman Assumes Presidency of National Academy of Education
TC President Susan Fuhrman has assumed the presidency of the National Academy of Education (NAEd), succeeding Lorrie Shepard, Dean of the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Fuhrman will hold the post while continuing as Teachers College president. Published: 10/23/2009
TC in the News
What the press is reporting on Teachers College.
In Cougar Territory, Cubs Take the Lead (11/16/2009)
Maybe Grief Isn't So Bad After All (11/16/2009)
Programs to Certify Teachers May Grow (11/16/2009)
Op-Eds
Opinion pieces by TC Faculty
"Standards Aren't Enough," President Fuhrman Writes in EdWeek
Commentary in Education Week co-authored by TC President Susan Fuhrman says draft national standards are only the first step in improving education. "Curricula, tests, textbooks, lesson plans, and teachers' on-the-job training will all have to be revised to reinforce the standards," the authors write. Published: 10/8/2009
OPINION: Standards can't make separate equal
Yesterday an advocate of high academic standards and school accountability was sworn in as New York State commissioner of education. David Steiner seems convinced the best way to close the yawning achievement gaps across different racial and ethnic groups is to raise the bar via mandated standards that dictate what concepts are taught and tested in schools, while creating negative consequences for educators when students fail. Published: 10/2/2009
Obama and the Integration Generation
In a commentary piece in Education Week, TC's Amy Stuart Wells argues that Barack Obama embodies the idealism of a generation not always known for it. Published: 3/2/2009
NYC's Gifted and Talented Programs Still Inequitable
In an op-ed piece in the New York Daily News on February 14, Professor James Borland, who is also coordinator of programs in gifted education at TC, writes that, despite New York City's revamp of its gifted and talented program, it's a safe bet that wealthier kids - mostly white and Asian - will again dominate in this year's contest for entry, with poorer children of color increasingly excluded. Published: 2/14/2009
Closing the Achievement Gap by Providing Poor and Minority Students Access to Suburban Schools
Led by TC's Amy Stuart Wells, the first comprehensive study of the nation's eight remaining inter-district school desegregation programs - which were expressly created to enable disadvantaged, black and Latino students cross school district boundary lines and attend affluent, predominantly white suburban public schools - has found that these programs help close black-white and Latino-white achievement gaps, improve racial attitudes and lead to long-term mobility and further education for the students of color who participate. Released: 11/12/2009
Susan Fuhrman Assumes Presidency of National Academy of Education Released: 10/23/2009
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