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Fifth-Graders Read Own Works to Preschoolers
Some kids at Pulaski Street Elementary School are writing their own books, and then reading them to younger kids. Published: 5/9/2008 1:17:00 PM
Student Tests and Teacher Grades
TC Trustee John Merrow, writing in The Wall Street Journal, argues that student performance data does, indeed, tell us a great deal about the quality of teaching. Published: 5/9/2008
Educators consider how to foster meaningful interaction among students in online courses Published: 5/8/2008 8:47:00 PM
Religiosity, Education, and Civic Belonging: Muslim Youth in New York
Eight out of 10 Muslim high school students surveyed in New York City say their schools are "pretty cool," and 85 percent say they feel safe in them, according to a study by Louis Cristillo, an education professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. Published: 5/7/2008 8:57:00 PM
California Parents Eager for Ruling on Home Schooling
Parents of an estimated 166,000 children in California are awaiting a state appellate court ruling on whether they have a constitutional right to home-school their children without a teaching credential. Professor Luis Huerta comments. Published: 4/20/2008
Education Week Spotlight's Levin's Cost-Benefit Analysis Center
In the early 1970s, Henry Levin -- now Professor of Economics and Education at TC -- did a major report for a Senate sub-committee on the costs to the U.S. of inadequate education. Over the past 30 years, he's elevated that kind of work to an art form, most recently founding the Center for Benefit Cost Studies of Education. See the story in the current issue of Education Week. Published: 4/9/2008
Program Teaches Power of the Pen
Published: 3/27/2008
Adopts New Emergency Notification Procedure
In response to violent acts on college campuses over the past few years, Columbia's Teachers College has introduced a new alert system meant to notify students in case of a security crisis. Published: 3/26/2008
Dan Nichols, a teacher at the Heritage School in New York City, organized a media project to challenge his students to be engaged citizens. Published: 3/11/2008
Tackling Racial Segregation One Policy at a Time: Why School Desegregation Only Went So Far
The 50th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education caused many in the United States to contemplate the value of public policies that flowed from that decision, especially the desegregation of public schools. Over the last half century, we have received mixed messages about whether such efforts were worth the trouble. TC professor Amy Stuart Wells and her colleagues explore the issue in this TC Record article. Published: 3/11/2008
Luis Huerta Discusses Regulation of Home Schooling in California
TC faculty member Luis Huerta recently appeared on "Which Way, LA?", a radio program on KCRW-NPR in Los Angeles, to comment on a state appellate court ruling that, for the first time, could subject the practice of home schooling in California to state regulation. Published: 3/7/2008
Learning communities to let students focus on areas of interest Published: 3/3/2008
In Kappan article, Rebell details the history of the educational adequacy movement
In the current issue of Phi Delta Kappan, Michael Rebell describes the evolution of the nation's educational adequacy movement, placing it historical context and assessing its accomplishments and gains. Published: 2/14/2008
The Designer Baby ... Genetic Breakthrough?
TC's Jeanne Brooks-Gunn was a recent guest on the "Morning Show with Mike and Judy" to discuss why creating "designer babies" using DNA is causing controversy, and the impact it can have on the children. Published: 2/13/2008
Spread respect for the rights of people with disabilities
Valerie Karr, a PhD candidate at Teachers College, Columbia University, studies international perspectives on the rights of persons with disabilities. Click here to read an opinion piece she recently published in Newsday on terrorists' use of mentally disabled women as suicide bombers. Published: 2/11/2008
Managing is a generational challenge
According to a recent study on cross-generational issues in organizations by Jill Waymire Paine of Teachers College, Columbia University, there is a fundamental theory of generations that argues that events, as opposed to parental values or genetic traits, shape the personalities of various age groups. Published: 2/9/2008
Henig Speaks Out on Research, Policymaking and the Press
On February 4th, the Washington Post's Jay Mathews devoted his education column to TC faculty member Jeffrey Henig's new book, Spin Cycle: How Research Is Used in Policy Debates, The Case of Charter Schools, which uses the national charter school controversy to spotlight how complex education issues get played out in the press and other public venues. Published: 2/8/2008
Community Colleges Want More to Graduate
As elite universities debate Congress over how much of their multi-billion-dollar endowments to spend, a new report argues that higher education's heavy-lifters, community colleges, need both more money and better results. Published: 1/31/2008
Community College of Philadelphia's Tagliareni Elected President of NLN
Elaine Tagliareni, RN, EdD, is the first community college professor to be elected president of the National League for Nursing. (Courtesy of the Community College of Philadelphia) Published: 1/28/2008
Small Number of U.S. Schools Leaving Federal Money Behind
Lincoln is among a small number of U.S. schools _ no one can say how many for sure _ that have gained flexibility in following federal education mandates by turning down Title I funds. Published: 1/28/2008
Peace Corps bring global skills to classrooms, immigrant children
About 600 former Peace Corps members have worked in high-needs city schools since 1985 through the Peace Corps Fellows program at Columbia University's Teachers College. About 300 are in classrooms now. Published: 1/27/2008
At Elite Prep Schools, College-Size Endowments
Despite Exeter's expanding commitments, which include a new promise to pay the full cost for any student whose family income is less than $75,000, the school's endowment keeps growing. Published: 1/26/2008
Resegregation of American schools is deepening
School segregation is not an anachronistic trend, and in the wake of two Supreme Court decisions dismantling both mandated and voluntary integration programs, the problem is deepening. Published: 1/26/2008
Washington Post columnist Jay Mathews praises a new book by TC's Henry Levin and his colleague, Clive Belfield, on why boosting the nation's high school graduation rate amounts to a sound economic investment. Published: 1/25/2008
Trustee James Comer Urges Sweeping Changes in Education
In the January 16th, 2008 issue of Education Week, TC Trustee and Yale professor James Comer, who pioneered in applying principles of child and adolescent development to education, addresses an open letter to the nation's next president, asking for a reconceptualization of American schools on the order of Congress's efforts a century ago to put farming in this country on a scientific footing. Published: 1/18/2008
New York Times salutes TC's Michael Bitz and The Comic Book Project
In an opinion piece published on January 3rd, New York Times editorial board member Brent Staples observes that comic books, once reviled by parents and educators as "a hazard to young minds", are gaining "a new respectability at school." For that, he credits The Comic Book Project, started in 2001 and since directed by TC alum Michael Bitz. The Project gives students "the opportunity to collaborate on often complex stories and characters that they then revise, publish and share," Staples says, noting that "the pairing of visual and written plotlines ... appear to be especially helpful to struggling readers." Published: 1/3/2008