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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. Published: 11/12/2009
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
A TC doctoral student's new study reveals a more critical view of the 'Zionist narrative' of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Published: 4/6/2009
Researchers Target Poverty as Key Barrier to Closing U.S. Education Gap
To overcome its education achievement gap, America must institute a comprehensive program of educational and social services to address the broad effects of poverty on millions of the nation's schoolchildren. Such a program could be delivered to 1 million students from families whose incomes fall within 75 percent to 125 percent of the federal poverty line at an approximate cost of $15,000 per student. These and other findings will be presented at TC on November 17th and 18th at the College's fourth annual Symposium on Educational Equity. Published: 11/12/2008
Completing Your Qualitative Dissertation : A Roadmap from Beginning to End
The doctoral dissertation is academia's Mount Everest -- a massive undertaking, requiring discipline, stamina and emotional reserves. A new book from TC maps the steps for completing a qualitative dissertation. Published: 8/25/2008
Teachers College to Partner with 10 Public Schools in Harlem
Teachers College has received a $5 million grant from the GE Foundation to create an intensive new partnership with a group of 10 public schools in Harlem. Published: 6/30/2008
Post 9/11: NYC Muslim Public School Students Feel Safe, But Hyper-Aware of Religious Identity
Contrary to expectations -- and the fears of many parents -- Muslim youth have generally felt comfortable, safe and fairly content in New York City public schools since the events of September 11th, 2001, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Teachers College. Yet these young people -- even those who are not religious -- have been made hyper-conscious of their religious identity See Preliminary Findings. Published: 5/3/2008
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
This Tuesday, April 8th, Carmen Farina and Laura Kotch - two former top officials in the New York City Department of Education -- will read from their new book and conduct a discussion with a group of leading public school experts, teachers, officials and principals at Teachers College. The event will take place from 3:30 to 5 pm in TC's Cowin Conference Center. Published: 4/4/2008
NEW YORK, NY April 2, 2008 -- Two new studies show that teachers who successfully use a method called proximal assessment for learner diagnosis, or PALD, can boost the performance of fifth and sixth grade students in math. Published: 4/2/2008
Smaller Classes: They Can Help, But They're No Silver Bullet
A new review of major research on the subject finds that reduced class size is far from a universal panacea, and may have no bearing at all on student achievement unless enacted under the right political, economic and academic conditions. Published: 4/1/2008
Hank Levin is giving the Distinguished Lecture; Janet Miller is receiving a lifetime achievement award; Susan Fuhrman, Amy Wells, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Edmund Gordon are speaking in Presidential Sessions, and Gordon and colleagues are part of "A Scholar's Evening in Harlem." And then there's the research. Published: 3/25/2008
Arlene Ackerman to Head Philadelphia Schools
Teachers College, Columbia University announced today that Arlene Ackerman, Christian A. Johnson Professor of Outstanding Educational Practice, is leaving the College to become Superintendent of Schools for the City of Philadelphia. Published: 2/20/2008
Web Channel on Education Launches at Teachers College
After Ed, a new video channel on the web produced at Teachers College, Columbia University, will launch on Wednesday, January 23rd, with a special evening forum held at the College's Gottesman Libraries. Published: 1/15/2008
Words of Wisdom, Not Exactly Whispered
For decades, parents have worried that the lyrics to rock music are corrupting their children and poisoning their minds. But what of the many pearls those lyrics may express? In his new book, Rock 'n' Roll Wisdom: What Psychologically Astute Lyrics Teach About Life and Love, Barry Farber, TC's Professor of Psychology and Education, analyzes rock lyrics for their psychological truths. Published: 8/28/2007
The Campaign for Educational Equity has denounced today's decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court in the school diversity cases, Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education (Louisville, KY.) and Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District. Published: 6/28/2007
Thomas Sobol, Shirley Ann Jackson and Lee Shulman are Convocation Speakers
This year's Convocation speakers (and TC medalists) are former New York State education commissioner and TC Professor Emeritus Thomas Sobol; Shirley Ann Jackson, President of Renssaeler Polytechnic Institute and former Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission; and Lee Shulman, President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Published: 4/25/2007
Harvey Spector is TC's New VPFA
TC has named Harvey Spector as its new Vice President for Finance and Administration, effective June 4, 2007. Spector led changes at FIT after a career in city government. Published: 4/17/2007
After a months-long national search for a new academic dean, Teachers College has named Thomas James as its new Provost. Published: 4/2/2007
Maurizio Pellegrin to Curate International Photo Exhibit at Macy Gallery
Maurizio Pellegrin, an internationally known artist who has had more than 150 solo exhibitions around the world since the mid-1980s, is curating Short Stories, an exhibit featuring photographs from 1890 to 2006, at the Macy Art Gallery from February 26 through March 16. Published: 2/27/2007
Teachers College to Inaugurate Susan Fuhrman as Its Tenth President on January 31st, 2007
Teachers College, Columbia University, will hold formal ceremonies on January 31st to inaugurate Susan H. Fuhrman as its 10th president. Dr. Fuhrman, a noted education researcher who was an early analyst of the state education standards movement, is a TC alumna who became the College's president in August 2006. Published: 12/14/2006
NY Court Orders Historic $1.93 Billion Additional Funding In Final CFE Ruling
New York's highest court rendered its final decision in the landmark CFE (Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State) case today, ordering the State to pay an additional $1.93 billion for New York City schoolchildren. Published: 11/21/2006
African-American Women Delayed in Breast Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment & Clinical Care
A new study has found that African-American women experience the longest diagnostic, treatment and clinical delay of breast cancer treatment. This helps explain why African-American women have higher death rates from breast cancer, compared to white women -- even though white women have the highest incidence of breast cancer. Published: 11/13/2006
Equity Symposium to Focus on NCLB at Midpoint
While the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) may be raising positive expectations for special education students and focusing attention on the educational needs of poor and minority youth, to date, NCLB is significantly behind schedule in meeting its own goals for student performance, teacher quality, academic standards and other key school improvement measures. Published: 11/6/2006
Teachers College Alumnus is Project Director For New Columbia High School
Jose Gabriel Maldonado-Rivera, an alumnus of Teachers College, Columbia University, has been named project director for the Columbia Secondary School for Math, Science and Engineering, set to open in West Harlem in September 2007. Published: 10/26/2006
Contested Voluntary School Integration Plans
Brief by Teachers College Expert is Co-Signed by Leading Education Scholars Published: 10/11/2006