Setting New Standards for Global Health Promotion and Education

TC Professor John Allegrante has co-edited with Professor Margaret Barry of the National University of Ireland, Galway, two special issues of peer-reviewed journals that focus on the efforts to strengthen standards and quality assurance in professional preparation for health promotion and health education.  Published: 5/15/2009

When Kindergarten Is No Longer Child's Play

In their new book, TC Professor Celia Genishi and colleague Anne Haas Dyson decry the increasing 'homogenization and regimentation' of the early childhood classroom.  Published: 7/1/2009

Campaign for Equity Pushes for Support of Disadvantaged Students and Families Beyond the Classroom

The Campaign for Educational Equity at Teachers College launched in January a task force that will consider ways to implement a child’s right to a sound, basic education comprehensively and guarantee children living in poverty in New York access to a range of social and educational services outside of the traditional classroom.  Published: 3/10/2009

Understanding the Long-term Impact of School Desegregation

As the nation inaugurates its first black president, a new book co-authored by TC faculty member Amy Stuart Wells, Both Sides Now: The Story of School Desegregation's Graduates (University of California Press, 2009), suggests that Barack Obama's generation is ready to take on issues of racial inequality and segregation, in part because so many members of this generation are graduates of desegregated schools.  Published: 1/13/2009

Deputy Mayor: Mayoral Control Has Been Good for NYC Schools

New York City public schools are much better off under mayoral control than they were in the old local school district system, Dennis M. Walcott, Deputy Mayor for Education and Community Development, told a group of principals in Teachers College’s Cahn Fellows program on February 12.  Published: 2/16/2009

Fuhrman Named Co-Chair of Roundtable on Education Systems and Accountability

Teachers College President Susan H. Fuhrman has been named co-chair of a new Roundtable on Education Systems and Accountability (RESA), established at the request of the U.S. Department of Education by the National Research Council's Board on Testing and Assessment.  Published: 1/27/2009

Six Health Disparities Facing Urban Minority Youth

Faculty member Charles Basch details how dealing with such health factors as asthma, teen pregnancy, aggression and violence, physical activity and breakfast is essential to meeting the needs of youth “facing the greatest educational and health challenges.  Published: 1/21/2009

Transcript and Video of the Debate at TC Between the Education Advisors for Obama and McCain

In their debate at Teachers College on October 21, the education advisors to the two presidential candidates presented starkly different assessments of American education and its future.  Published: 10/24/2008

A November '08 Preview from Arne Duncan, U.S. Education Secretary

Arne Duncan still shoots hoops with a longtime friend. That friend recently was elected president of the United States, and in a speech given at TC some weeks ago, Duncan—now the nominee to become U.S. Secretary of Education—said he's confident the new president won’t let the current economic crisis deter him from fixing the nation’s schools.  Published: 12/23/2008

A Comprehensive Strategy for Closing the Achievement Gap: TC's Fourth Annual Symposium on Educational Equity

At TC’s fourth annual Symposium on Educational Equity, a star-studded cast of researchers, educators and policymakers argued for nothing less than a full-scale attempt to combat poverty and its attendant ills.  Published: 10/24/2008

TC Plays leadership Role at Forum to Advise Obama and Congress

TC President Susan Fuhrman moderated one of six panels at a recent public forum conducted by the National Academy of Education (NAED) at which researchers and policymakers presented recommendations for education reform to advisors for President-elect Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress.  Published: 11/18/2008 3:30:00 PM

TC in Research Alliance to Improve NYC Schools

Teachers College will work with the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, a newly announced non-partisan applied research center that, working independently of city government and the Department of Education, will focus on advancing school improvement in New York.  Published: 10/30/2008

Team Pre-K: TC's Kagan and Brooks Gunn

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Sharon Lynn Kagan are leaders in the early childhood education revolution.  Published: 3/31/2008

Beyond NCLB Hype: A New Book by Michael Rebell

Featuring the work of Michael Rebell and Jessica Wolff who in their recently published book, Moving Every Child Ahead, argue that the important goals of the federal No Child Left Behind Act have been undermined by the impossible demand that 100% of America’s children reach required proficiency levels by 2014. Instead, they believe NCLB should be revised to require serious efforts to give all children a 'meaningful educational opportunity' and offer Congress clear recommendations on how to do so.  Published: 2/28/2008 10:34:00 AM

Parsing Pre-K as Panacea

In his recent conversation, David L. Kirp, professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, pointed out during the Virginia and Leonard Marx Lecture—on the matter of universal preschool—says the returns on investment are significant.  Published: 12/1/2007

Bringing the School Food Revolution to NYC

This coming Friday and Saturday, April 11th and 12th, leading practitioners, educators and advocates of the global school food revolution will gather at Teachers College, Columbia University, for a summit aimed at combating childhood obesity and promoting healthy food choices for kids in New York City schools.  Published: 4/8/2008

Breaking Faith with NYC’s Schools

Michael Rebell, Executive Director of The Campaign for Educational Equity, based at Teachers College, argues in the New York Daily News that proposed cuts to New York City’s 2009 public school budget would hurt students and undermine the agreement that brought an additional $5.2 billion annually into the system.  Published: 5/27/2008

Talking Past One Another

In 2004, when the New York Times spotlighted research showing that students at conventional public schools were outperforming their charter school counterparts, it triggered a firestorm of claims and counter-claims by education scholars. To Jeffrey Henig, TC Professor of Political Science and Education, this exchange exemplified a disturbing trend: the failure of supposedly objective research to transcend ideology and settle important policy questions of the day.  Published: 4/1/2008

A Program for Journalists Who Cover Community Colleges

A new fellowship at TC's Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media focuses on an important education venue that receives too little attention.  Published: 11/15/2007

Rebell Blogs on Educational Adequacy

Michael Rebell, head of TC's Campaign for Educational Equity ...  Published: 10/30/2007

Making TC the Policy Center of Choice

Teachers College 'has always been an incredibly policy-rich environment,' says Sharon Lynn Kagan, who was named TC's first Associate Dean for Policy and head of the newly created Office of Policy and Research (OPR) in 2004. "Now we’re making it an easier place to navigate, and that’s one more reason why we’re becoming the institute of choice both for users of policy research and for policy students.  Published: 10/18/2007