Did You Know...
The Founders
In 1887, The College is founded by Grace Hoadley Dodge as the New York School for the Training of Teachers. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler is appointed as its first president.
Faculty News and Notes
Saying Yes to Science
TC’s Xiaodong Lin will lead a $2.5 million study, funded by the National Science Foundation, that will teach kids that Einstein struggled, too – and that the brain can change if you work hard Read more...
Grant to Study Prolonged Grief
TC's George Bonanno received a grant of just under $3 million from the National Institute of Mental Health to learn more about the factors that predict prolonged grief (PG) in people who lose a spouse. Read More...Welcome
More than any other research institution of its kind, TC has led the way in increasing understanding of how people of all ages learn in all disciplines, how best to teach them what they need to know, and how to transform our findings into actual curricula in classrooms and other settings. Some of these high-impact researches are:- Designing advanced mathematics education for very young children
- Providing diabetes education for health care professionals who help patients manage their disease
- Educating high school and college students about the national debt, the federal budget deficit and other issues related to fiscal responsibility
- Training top executives at corporations and non-profits to lead their organizations through major and often volatile change
- Bringing elementary school teachers—including those who have had no formal science preparation—up to speed in both science content and pedagogy
- Educating elementary and middle school students—an age group among whom obesity has been growing at an alarming rate—to change their behaviors around nutrition and fitness
- Creating new paradigms in the teaching of Chinese to speakers of other languages
- Using science-based teaching to enable thousands of children diagnosed with autism and other language deficits to speak and function in mainstream schools
