2020

2020 (264 Articles)

• January (12 Articles)

  • Alumnus Kenneth Graves Is Honored by AERA for His Dissertation on Schools’ Technology Leadership for Social Justice

  • Tracing Slavery’s Impact on African American Public Health Today

  • Spirituality in Education Conference Featured on NPR’s “Here and Now”

  • The WELL Campaign, Initiated by TC’s Tisch Food Center, Rallies for a State Wellness Policy

    New Yorkers statewide participate online, backing a gathering of student, advocates and elected officials

  • How a Child Psychologist Mentored Mr. Rogers

    The New York Times runs an “Overlooked” retrospective on TC alumna Margaret McFarland

  • Needed: Digital Designers Who Are Young Women Or Youth of Color

    It’s time for social media platforms to reflect their biggest users, argues TC’s Ioana Literat

  • “Use the Data You Have”

    Kids are complex. Fred Cohen wants teachers to have all the information

  • Through Data, Better Learning and a Less Dystopian Future

    As teachers and students become data users, Richard Halverson forecasts “participatory culture” and schools that repair communities

  • How Education Data Can Help Teachers Raise Their Game

    Alex Bowers’ pitch to educators: You'll see the forest, not the trees

  • NPR’s “Here and Now” Will Recap TC’s Conference on Spirituality and Education

  • An Activist Educator with Big Shoes to Fill

    Honey Walrond’s role models include her grandmother and Shirley Chisholm

  • In the Year of the Nurse, Accolades for TC’s Nurse Educators

• February (13 Articles)

  • The Doctor Behind Dr. Seuss

    On the day celebrating the legendary children’s author, a nod to the Teachers College alumnus who paved his way

  • New Guidelines Are Announced for How Physical Therapy Can Help People with Huntington’s Disease

    The information is drawn from a report led by TC movement scientist Lori Quinn

  • A Summer Workshop for Teachers Will Focus on Harlem’s Education History

  • Beyond the Grid: The Untold Story of Harlem’s Fight for Quality Education

    A new book and upcoming summer workshop reveal a community that cares passionately about its schools

  • On Track to Change the World: Annual Fund Scholar Maya Evans

  • The Community College Research Center's Davis Jenkins Weighs in on Michael Bloomberg's Higher Education Plan

  • TC is Well Represented on City and State’s “Education Power 100” Rankings

  • TC’s Felicia Mensah Teams with a Former Student to Write about Teaching Science and Technology to Girls

  • TC Dance Educator Barbara Bashaw is Featured on the Cover of Dance Teacher Magazine

  • A Cop Who Walks to a Different Beat

    Jason Mazeski wants to ease tensions between the NYPD and local communities. That’s why he’s studying adult education at Teachers College

  • African Diaspora Advanced Placement Course, Co-developed by Teachers College, Highlighted by Time

    For Black History Month, Time explores ways that Black Lives Matter is contributing to more robust black history in schools

  • Yale Public Health Honors Alumna Irene Trowell-Harris

  • Games Can Teach Climate Change While Still Being Fun, writes TC’s Joey Lee

• March (18 Articles)

  • Ithaca On His Mind

    The anthropological journey of the late Lambros Comitas

  • Coping with COVID

    Tips from TC’s George Bonanno for staying emotionally resilient during the crisis

  • “An Emerging Situation We’re Still Trying to Figure Out”

    Disaster Researcher and TC Alum Thomas Chandler on the COVID-19 Crisis

  • Challenging Trump on Social Distancing and Suicide

    In the Daily News, TC faculty and their Columbia colleagues refute the president’s “mistaken message”

  • Bridging America’s Cultural Divides: TC’s Chris Emdin Is Named to Time’s Leaders List

  • A Poet Takes on Risk and Healing

    TC’s Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz makes herself vulnerable in a new volume about past relationships

  • A Virtual Community to Overcome Social Distance

    A New TC Website Offers Tips for Online Learning, Entertainment and More

  • Teachers in the Movement: Tisch Lecturer Derrick Alridge Traces Classroom Activism During the Civil Rights Era

  • How to Help Others During COVID-19

  • Easily Teach Data Analysis with This Free Video Game

  • Home-Schooling Q&A with TC’s Roberta Lenger Kang

  • NYC’s Schools Can Still Serve Everyone: TC’s Roberta Lenger Kang Says the Closings Shouldn’t Be a “Win-Lose Proposition”

  • Tisch Center’s Claire Raffel weighs in on why coronavirus could complicate efforts to keep NYC students fed during school closures

  • Peter Coleman’s Rx for a Divided America: Make Common Cause with Those Working to Bridge Tensions and Promote Understanding

  • A Virtual Meeting, But Real Honors for TC Community Members at AERA

    Recognition for Ioana Literat, Sonya Douglass Horsford, Janet Miller, Phillip Smith and Kenneth Graves

  • With Guest Speakers from NYCDOE, an Environmental Partnership Enters TC’s Classroom

  • Keeping the Peace in Close Quarters

  • Helping Kids Who Are Feeling Anxious and Isolated After Schools Shut Down

    In The Hechinger Report, TC's Jacqueline Ancess and other experts suggest finding other ways to connect, including video conferences and even snail mail

• April (14 Articles)

  • Ruminate on This: A game to help young news consumers avoid getting…LAMBOOZLED!

  • Reality Check

    As fake news complicates the COVID crisis, the field of media literacy is pushing back

  • Amid the Crisis, a Voice for All Children

    Ayesha Rabadi’s read-alongs speak to immigrants’ experiences

  • What On Earth: Feeding the Soil to Save the World

    A master class in nutritional ecology with TC’s Joan Gussow

  • Who You Gonna Call

    TC’s Center for Technology & School Change is a go-to resource for the new online era in K-12 education

  • Alumni Roundtable: COVID Lessons from Around the World

  • Essential Personnel

    TC’s Public Safety and Facilities teams are quiet heroes on a silent campus

  • A New Digital Age: Connecting During COVID-19

  • Remembering More than the Refrains

    From the Great American Songbook to Norwegian art songs, Lisa Daehlin curates her music with love, kindness and plenty of yarn(s)

  • A Voice for Our Times

    On NPR, Politico and elsewhere, TC’s Peter Coleman is speaking up on how we speak to one another

  • Online Learning Won’t Fix Everything

    Digital learning has been a significant aid during the COVID crisis, but it needs a lot more work before we proclaim it the future of education, argue TC faculty in the Daily News

  • “We Can’t Stand Idly By”

    TC’s EPIC brings shipments of personal protective equipment to three New York City medical centers

  • Just a Click Away

    There’s tons of COVID information on YouTube – but not enough focuses on preventive behaviors, finds TC’s Charles Basch and co-authors

  • Mentorship During the COVID Crisis

    Check in, empathize and listen, writes TC alumna Ruth Gotian in Nature

• May (32 Articles)

  • TC Researchers Build COVID Protective Equipment for Healthcare Professionals

    Faculty and students at two TC research labs have teamed up with a local business to make and distribute shields and other gear to provide personal protection for doctors who intubate COVID patients

  • Healthcare Workers and Medical Scientists Are Seen as Most Credible on COVID

    A TC survey finds that frontline expertise is the bottom line for the public

  • To Temper COVID-19 Conflict and Anxiety, write TC’s Coleman and Chan, “Know Thyself”

    A new survey helps people become more aware of how they tend to respond to conflict and anxiety

  • What Matters Most

    by Anderson Patrick Collin Smith, Ph.D. ’20, M.Ed. ’18, English Education, Department of Arts & Humanities

  • And Speaking of Convocation

    More from friends, luminaries and TC students

  • Crisis, Opportunity and Inspiration

    Nikole Hannah-Jones, Jill Biden and Hillary Clinton headline Teachers College’s stirring virtual Convocation

  • Music to America’s Ears

    Medical equipment from China, arranged by TC Trustee Edith Shih, and a concert to celebrate

  • Ready for Prime Time

    How TC faculty members are taking online teaching to the next level

  • Zoom Times at TC

    How Academic Technology Services and other TCIT offices helped put the College in position to work online

  • Nine Days in March

    How TC moved all its courses online

  • Statues with Limitations: Detra Price-Dennis

  • The Art of Scaling Up: Richard Jochum

  • Using Technology to Bridge Disciplines: Laudan Jahromi

  • An Exercise in Eliminating Bias: Carol Ewing Garber

  • Practicing the Inclusion She Preaches: Angel Wang

  • Mentors, Scholars, Editors and Authors

    More honors for TC faculty, students and emeriti

  • The Show Will Go On

    TC’s first-ever virtual Convocation, headlined by Pulitzer Prize-winner Nikole Hannah-Jones, will reflect a time of challenge and heroism

  • Want to Minimize Your Risks of COVID-19?

    A new tool from a TC scientist may reduce personal risk and help inform local, national and business guidelines

  • To Be or Not to Be…A Parent

    In American Psychology, TC’s Aurélie Athan proposes a new theory of reproductive identity

  • Gamifying Media Literacy

    TC’s LAMBOOZLED! team reports on why that strategy works

  • Mission Virtually Accomplished

    TC moved at warp speed to take its courses online. Now the College is redefining virtual instruction.

  • Using “Data” to Humanize the Patient

    A COVID ICU nurse applies lessons from TC’s doctoral program

  • Teaching from Empathy

    Dylan Kapit understands disability and difference from the inside

  • COVID-19 School Closings Present Opportunities to Make Education More Equitable, Amy Stuart Wells Writes in Education Week

  • A Star Turns Cheerleader

    A surprise online appearance by the NBA’s Shane Battier, arranged by TC’s EPIC, boosts morale among Columbia Medical Center frontline staff

  • Literally on the Frontlines

    Health Education doctoral student Danielle Herring is helping New Jersey’s residents get tested for COVID-19

  • Making the Most of Her Time

    Career changer and school counseling graduate Cindy Ling has been pulling an extended transcontinental all-nighter

  • Ensuring That Women Are Heard — on Zoom

    Mashable talks to Sarah Brazaitis about how and why online meetings must honor women’s voices

  • Using YouTube to Fight COVID-19

    The medium is ideal — it’s the messaging that needs work, finds a study led by TC’s Charles Basch

  • Doing What He Can

    Volunteering in hospital ICUs, Pavel Placido has literally helped COVID patients to breathe

  • “The Greatest Opportunity Ever”

    At TC, applied physiology student Charmagne Jones fulfilled one dream — and realized she had many others

  • Amid the COVID Crisis, Honors Continue for TC Community Members

• June (20 Articles)

  • How TikTok is Shaping Politics: A New York Times Q&A With TC’s Ioana Literat

  • Now More Than Ever: The 2020 Reimagining Education Summer Institute

    Moving online and focusing on COVID and racial justice

  • Hope as Practice

    Angel Acosta prescribes healing-centered education and structural change for a nation torn by racism and hate

  • Bright Colors on a World Canvas

    In the world’s largest refugee camps, Max Frieder is using art to fight COVID and gender-based violence and heal the scars of genocide

  • The Ethical Technologist

    In guiding Fieldston School’s transition to online learning, new Assistant Principal Kenny Graves has modeled how to bridge the technology divide

  • A Call for New York State to Dramatically Improve Media Literacy Education

    Students must be media literate to be democracy ready, asserts a new report from a coalition of civic and education organizations convened by a TC center

  • A Brain-Based Treatment for COVID Anxiety

    TC’s Douglas Mennin is testing a modified form of Emotional Regulation Therapy

  • New Study Shows Americans Concerned About the Pandemic's Effect on Learning

  • On a Quest Against Illiteracy

    From Colombia to the South Bronx, Victoria Henry Cervantes is giving young people access to the written word

  • Don’t Blame the Victims

    A new book edited by TC’s Mariana Souto-Manning argues that “a rhetoric of failure” has “sanctioned inequity”

  • Grief and Outrage, Tempered by Hope

    More than 400 attend TC’s virtual gathering in response to systemic racism

  • Informed Activism Is the Best Policy

    D.L. Moffitt is taking the fight to improve education to the policy arena

  • Better Trainings Won’t End Police Brutality

    Writing in The Hill, TC’s Peter Coleman urges a systemic approach

  • Staying Plugged In

    Detra Price-Dennis has provided hope and counsel to K-12 teachers during a daunting time

  • “The Fight against Racism and Inequity Isn’t Part of Our Mission – It Is Our Mission”

    Responding to brutal murders and “centuries of unhealed wounds,” TC voices sound a call for action

  • “An Ordinary Person, Doing Something Extraordinary”

    In charting his education career, Eddie Ortiz has channeled a courageous teacher who risked all

  • Leveraging Media Literacy to Pursue Social Justice

    In TC’s MASCLab, Azsaneé Truss decided to fight for social justice — as a college professor

  • Finding Identity by Helping Others Build It

    Joey Eisman has tapped fields from neuroscience to Jewish education to help young people engage and grow

  • Daring to Change Group Dynamics

    Zad El-Makkaoui decided at 17 to be an organizational psychologist. TC gave her the tools for the field’s toughest challenges

  • A Revolution in Real Time

    A message from Erica Walker, Director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME)

• July (35 Articles)

  • Brennan DuBose Named to “30 Under 30” List of HBCU Graduates

    The TC alumnus leads an investment fund dedicated to supporting black male achievement

  • A Call for Nutrition Educators to Embrace Controversy

    In a presidential address to her field’s top professional society, TC’s Pam Koch challenges “white-dominated” agriculture’s focus on processed foods

  • Briana Freso

    M.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders

  • Joey Eisman

    M.A. in Cognitive Science in Education

  • Brooke Hayman

    M.S. student in Communication Sciences and Disorders

  • Allie Vaknin

    Ed.M. student in Mental Health Counseling

  • Taylor Garlow

    M.S. student in Nutrition Education

  • Manny Zapata

    M.A. in Education Policy

  • Lissy Hodge

    M.A. in Mathematics Education with an Elementary Specialization

  • Suspect Performance

    Interest in vouchers and Education Savings Accounts appears to be waning, says TC’s Luis Huerta

  • Class Discussion

    For Jane K. Dickinson, improving diabetes care is all about language. She brings the same mindset to teaching online

  • A Call for Reality Pedagogy

    In The Atlantic, TC’s Christopher Emdin urges teachers to learn from students and embrace the chaos of the world beyond the classroom

  • Demanding an “Independent Autopsy” of America’s Schools

    At TC’s Reimagining Institute, Jamila Lyiscott calls for a focus on “toxic ideologies” that deny the genius of black and brown children

  • Getting Teachers to Make Virtual House Calls

    Learning environment expert Karen Aronian says: Do try this at home

  • ‘Changing the Outcomes, Not Just the Symbols’

    In two new books, Professor Emeritus Robert T. Carter defines ‘race-based trauma’ and offers a strategy for legal redress

  • Teachers College Receives $6.3 Million in Two Federal Grants

    IES funding will support doctoral students in higher education research and the first major study of the Federal Work-Study program

  • America’s Response to COVID

    A TC panel discusses the lessons good and bad

  • Thinking Even Younger

    The Rita Gold Early Childhood Center

  • Hands-on Science, at Home

    The Hollingworth Science Camp goes virtual, too

  • So How Do You Do Pre-K Online?

    At TC’s Hollingworth Preschool, with imagination, patience and realistic expectations

  • Strengthening “Pandemic Behavioral Science”

    TC’s John Allegrante and coauthors issue a national call to action

  • Telling Young People Better Stories About Themselves

    At TC’s Reimagining Education Institute, Lisa Delpit demands narratives that ‘uncover students’ brilliance’

  • A Grant Getter Who Can Mentor Others

    Carol Scheffner Hammer is TC’s first Vice Dean for Research

  • Putting Dreams on ICE: Denying visas to online international students shatters careers and hurts American education

  • Building Community in a Remote Classroom

    Early childhood education professor Haeny Yoon applies principles such as “joy” and “play” to her online teaching

  • Re-Imagining: The Arts in a Time of Reckoning

    By Judith M. Burton

  • Therapist, Trust Thy Patient

    From working with refugees from Syria, Myanmar and elsewhere, Lena Verdeli has come to trust the power of our “mental health immune systems”

  • Adaptive Response

    Amid the pandemic, TC’s Dean Hope Center has provided patients with online therapy and kept students’ careers on track

  • Reopening Schools Safely This Fall

    “Little kids first,” argues TC’s Sarah Cohodes on theatlantic.com website

  • Advocating for Graduate Students

    An online letter-writing party to push for student funding and protect international students

  • Giving the Gift of Intentional Parenthood

    Introducing the new Edlow Reproductive Literacy Project

  • Reproductive Identity

    A new theory of how we see ourselves as parents — or not — seeks to provide people with freedom and peace of mind

  • Unconstrained by Time

    Despite COVID, at TC’s Literacy Unbound Summer Workshop, the show will go on

  • Finding Opportunity in Crisis

    Roberta Lenger Kang and CPET have changed their game to help teachers move online

  • Teaching with a Global Perspective

    For Woo-Jung Amber Kim, the classroom is situated in a much larger world

• August (31 Articles)

  • Schools Have Failed Children of Color During the Pandemic

    Speaking at TC’s orientation for new students, alumnus and former Education Secretary John King decries the lack of an overarching strategy

  • Sharing Perspectives on Inequity

    Five TC faculty experts discuss ways to eradicate ‘disparities that disproportionately affect so many’

  • New Student Orientation 2020

    A comprehensive virtual experience will include a special welcome program featuring TC faculty and alumni experts in a community discussion on inequality

  • Robert Piemonte, Champion of Nursing Education, Dies at 85

  • Repurposing Stethoscopes to Help Speech Pathologists Navigate Social Distance

    Aided by TC’s Cate Crowley, a Nigerian surgeon overcomes one of the field’s biggest challenges

  • Now is the Time to Fix School Inequity with Funding

    Escalating costs and dwindling budgets will hurt Black and Brown students the most, writes TC’s Michael Rebell in the New York Daily News.

  • Educating the Public to Make Informed Decisions About COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake

    A new study led by TC’s Charles Basch highlights the need for better videos that attract lay viewers

  • Hidden Figure

    The late TC alumna Eileen Glover Whitlock was a Black, single mom who didn’t brag about her job

  • TC Adds New Faculty in the Fields of Arts Administration, Education Policy and Intellectual Disabilities/Autism

  • Why School Integration Has Failed

    TC’s Sonya Douglass Horsford adds her voice to a New York Times roundtable

  • Amid COVID and Racial Injustice, Teachers Matter More than Ever

    They anchor young people and create safe spaces in times of crisis

  • The Arts and Re-Envisioning COVID-Era Schools

    Using the arts to re-imagine education as distinct from schooling

  • Emergency Medicine Doctor Dimitri Papanagnou Uses Adult Learning to Combat the Uncertainty in His Field

    His Rx: A curriculum to help students and practitioners cope with the element of surprise

  • How the Left Can Use Diversity to Cancel ‘Cancel Culture’

    In The Hill, Peter Coleman argues for a bigger tent among progressives

  • Marie L. Miville is named TC’s Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs

    A multiculturalist with an openness to diverse contributions, she is tasked with fostering a climate in which all faculty can thrive

  • Removing Racial Bias

    It starts with rewriting biased histories, Christopher Emdin tells NBC

  • Providing Career Development for Alumni

    TC Next is teaming up with TC’s Office of Alumni Relations to help graduates, too

  • ‘Career Services’ Gets a Makeover

    Earning an advanced degree is tough. Earning a living is tougher. An office called TC NEXT is changing how graduate schools offer help

  • Déjà Vu in the Balkans?

    American moves in Kosovo help Putin and threaten the region and beyond, warns TC’s Amra Sabic-El-Rayess

  • Making School a Lifeline

    Principal Crystal Jones has concentrated on making her Atlanta public school “the one place that’s consistent” for children and families

  • Preserving the Human Interaction

    As Chicago’s schools operate online, Principal Joshua Long is providing his special-needs students with one-on-one attention

  • Black Lives Matter Movement Inspires Community Art

  • Leadership in Crisis

    Four Teachers College experts weigh the challenges of the coming school year

  • Speaking Up

    She lived in a country silenced by oppression. Now Erika Levy helps kids with speech disorders use “a big mouth and strong voice” — an approach that shapes her online teaching.

  • A Call for “Maker” Fellows at TC, focused on “Cultural Making”

  • Helping Students Model Their Own Theories

    With a $2 million NSF grant, TC’s Paulo Blikstein hopes to turn kids into investigators

  • “The Ultimate Adaptive Challenge”

    To reopen or not reopen? And how? Four TC community members who are school leaders discuss making life-or-death choices with no right answers

  • “In the Worst of Times, the Best of People”

    As Syosset, New York’s schools grapple with uncertainty and other challenges, Superintendent Tom Rogers is heartened by his community’s spirit

  • Leading Essential Workers in “An Impossible Situation”

    Elizabeth Bonesteel, Superintendent of Vermont’s Montpelier-Roxbury schools believes too much is being asked of educators

  • First Things First

    In Malverne, New York, new Superintendent Lorna Lewis is focused on health and wellbeing

  • Dialogue, Knowledge, Flexibility

    Those are Bronx Collaborative High School Principal Brett Schneider’s watchwords for reopening this fall

• September (18 Articles)

  • At TC’s Constitution Day Program, the Message — This Year More than Ever — is: Vote

    Speakers from the ACLU and the Brennan Center for Justice highlight the need to protect hard-won gains against voter suppression

  • A Cure for a Fractured Society: Building Bridges Among the Bridge-Building Organizations

    In a new column in The Hill, TC’s Peter T. Coleman urges support for ‘positive deviance’

  • Voter Turnout 101: An Initiative Called ‘TC Votes’ is Aimed at Ensuring Precisely That Outcome

  • Pop Culture: TC Alumnus Bryan Jackson has Launched an Acclaimed Podcast Series on Black Fatherhood

  • Schools May Be Shut, But School Food Programs Need to Stay Open

    Their nutrition guidance can be as important as the food they provide, argues the Tisch Food Center’s Julia McCarthy in The Portland Press Herald

  • Promoting Food Equity During COVID

    Cities using schools as distribution points are a model, finds a study co-authored by a Tisch Food Center researcher

  • Alumna Sayu Bhojwani on Kamala Harris: All Things to All People

    In USA Today, praise for a nominee who signals possibility to ‘any of us who consider ourselves American’

  • At a Global Summit, Educators Share Lessons from the COVID Pandemic

    A gathering led by TC’s CPET reviews strategies ranging from technology training to virtual pizza parties

  • In a Times Magazine Roundtable, TC Alumnus John King Urges the Nation to Choose ‘the FDR Path’ and Invest in K-12 Education

  • An Online Nutrition Course That Entices Students to the Table

    Working with TC’s Office of Digital Learning, Pam Koch reimagined her course on how to teach about food and nutrition

  • Amra Sabic-El-Rayess Talks About Why She Wrote Her Memoir of Survival in 1990s Bosnia

  • Coming of Age in an Age of the Unthinkable

    In Amra Sabic-El-Rayess’s memoir of genocide in Bosnia, a young girl embraces humanity as the world falls apart

  • An Excerpt from ‘The Cat I Never Named’

  • The Promise, a Podcast about Integration and Resegregation in Nashville, Features TC’s Ansley Erickson

    TC’s expert adds her voice to the story of a 43-year court case, a school bombing and a city that continues to maintain its color line

  • In an Online Course, TC Students Conduct Speech Therapy Virtually with Children in Colombia

    Small Screen, Big Mission: A professor’s humanitarian work continues with help from TC's Office of Digital Learning

  • Teaching Music Online When Kids Lack Instruments and Internet Access

    As Music Manager for Washington D.C.’s schools, classically trained alumna Katy Ho Weatherly has learned to improvise during the pandemic

  • Fostering Digital Citizenship in the New Normal of Online Schooling

    Why and how we must educate very young children about privacy, permanence and kindness

  • With an $880,000 IES Grant, TC’s Alex Eble Explores How Textbooks’ Messages Shape Children’s Sense of Their Own Abilities

• October (30 Articles)

  • Helping Children with Severe Cerebral Palsy Sit Up

    With a $3 million NIH grant, TC’s Andrew Gordon and mechanical engineers at Columbia are testing a robotic device

  • Strengthening Child Care for Infants and Toddlers: New recommendations from TC’s National Center for Children & Families

  • Reach Young Voters on Their Own Turf — TikTok, says TC’s Ioana Literat in Wired

  • In Education Week, TC’s Michael Rebell Says the Pandemic Could Aid Lawsuits Seeking More Equitable School Funding

  • The Maker Movement as a Means of ‘Resilience and Resistance’

    At this year’s FabLearn conference, projects ranged from making flower pots to foiling racially-biased facial recognition software

  • ‘A Crisis Within a Crisis’

    TC’s Mary Mendenhall and Lena Verdeli address the pandemic’s impact on efforts to support refugee education and mental health

  • Eight Million More People in the U.S. Living in Poverty: Study co-authored by TC’s Jordan Matsudaira

  • Education for the Times: Alumnus Nick Stone Is Part of a Corps of Teachers Creating Nationwide Curricula

  • ‘Educating Harlem,’ a Book Talk by Ansley T. Erickson and Ernest Morrell, Launches TC’s Celebration of the Harlem Renaissance

  • Little Kids’ Learning is Suffering, Too, says Parenting Expert Aliza Pressman (Ph.D. ’11, M.A. ’05) — But Parents Can Help

  • Rhode Island District Court Applauds but Dismisses a Suit Seeking to Establish a Federal Constitutional Right to a Civic Education

    TC’s Michael Rebell, lead counsel for the plaintiffs, says the decision provides ‘a road map’ for appeal

  • Making the Case for Continuing the Case

    An interview with Michael Rebell about the prospects for an appeal in Cook v. Raimondo

  • Pragmatic and Socially Conscious: A Wealth Management Webinar Features Trustee Charles Desmond and Alumna Myah Moore Irick

  • New Report: Dual Enrollment Can Help Poor and Minority Students — If They Gain Access

  • The Roads Not Taken? There aren’t many for aspiring researcher, administrator and teacher Catherine Cheng Stahl

  • Listening to All Voices: Amanda Earl is Studying an Indigenous Language in Mexico and Helping the TC Record Expand Its Focus

  • Resetting the Record

    Michelle Knight-Manuel is amplifying new voices in TC’s century-old scholarly journal

  • Spirituality in Mental Health

    The Army’s Head Chaplain Headlines a Webinar Co-Led by TC’s Lisa Miller and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

  • Free Markets Don’t Protect Public Health, Writes TC’s Sarah Cohodes in The New York Times. Witness COVID and Higher Ed

  • Walking the Curriculum Walk: For Jacqueline Simmons, Online Course Design is a Standing Invitation to Rewrite the Script

  • Rethinking Education Leadership, Policy, & Politics in Uncertain Times: A Conversation with Sonya Douglass Horsford

  • A New Vision for American Education

    A book co-authored by TC’s Sonya Douglass Horsford wins a Critics’ Choice Book Award. It analyzes policies long in the making and charts a new future for school leadership

  • Using Mobile Phones to Overcome School Interruptions by COVID

    The New York Times spotlights a study of a trial in Botswana co-authored by TC’s Peter Bergman

  • The Unsung Suffragist: Lucy Diggs Slowe, Who Studied at Teachers College, is Remembered in The New York Times

  • On World Teachers Day, A Call to Recognize and Support Those Working in Emergency Conditions

    TC’s Mary Mendenhall and co-authors spotlight an often-unpaid workforce that serves more than 75 million displaced children

  • How White Supremacy in America Feels Familiar: TC’s Amra Sabic-El-Rayess in Al Jazeera

  • TC’s Pam Koch in The Daily News: COVID-19 Has Exposed a Deeply Inequitable Food System in New York City, But Also Suggests Solutions

  • A New Collaboration Called SURGE Brings Together Experts Across Columbia to Focus on Gun Violence

  • TC Will Honor a Distinguished Group of Alumni at Its 2020 Academic Festival

  • TC’s First Virtual Academic Festival Will Focus on Access, Equity and Justice for All

• November (24 Articles)

  • A Changemaker’s Approach to Overcoming Education Disparities

    Shavonna Hinton is focused on helping others to set their own agendas

  • Recognition Where It’s Due

    Recent Honors for TC Faculty

  • Remaking Thanksgiving Dinner — and the World

    TC’s Aurélie Athan on creating new traditions amidst a pandemic

  • ‘We Have No Choice’

    Gordon Lecturer Mary Schmidt Campbell calls on colleges and universities to lead improvement of urban education

  • Mapping Sustainable Peace

    An update in American Psychologist, co-authored by TC’s Peter Coleman

  • Amplifying Silenced Voices

    Psychology graduate Helen Feldman (M.A. ’20) helps others by understanding the world from their vantage point

  • New Evidence that a Brief Form of Therapy Can Help Veterans Adjust to Civilian Life — and Seek Further Help If Needed

  • Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring: COVID’s Psychological Fallout in Schools

    For many students and educators, the pandemic’s uncertainty is exacting a greater toll than the virus itself

  • TC’s Goldberg Postdoctoral Fellowships: A $2.5 million bequest is seeding a new approach to mental health and wellbeing

  • The Other Stressor: Violence Against People of Color

    Why pandemic times have been harder for Black students and those from other minority groups

  • Helping Students Deal with Lack of Structure

    TC school psychology graduates on the ground

  • ‘Students Teaching Students’

    Mary Schmidt Campbell will spotlight an untapped resource in TC’s Gordon Lecture on November 17th

  • Redefining High-Quality Early Learning — and Identifying Core Principles for Putting It into Practice

    A new study co-authored by TC’s Mariana Souto-Manning puts family and community at the center of children’s learning and development

  • A Veteran’s Journey to Teaching

    For Peter Kim (Ed.D., Applied Linguistics), leadership in both the military and the classroom are about ‘instructing, teaching, counseling and guiding’

  • Leading by Example, in Lots of Good Directions

    Doctoral student and U.S. Army Major Jamie Hickman

  • Supporting Students ‘In Vivo’: TC’s School-Based Mental Health Collaboration

  • Still More Programming from Academic Festival 2020

    How Did We Ever Do This All in One Day?

  • Unwelcome in Chechnya

    At Academic Festival, a discussion of global violence toward the LGBTQ community

  • Haves vs. Have Nots

    Can higher education bridge the widening gap?

  • It Was All About Access, Equity and Justice

    TC’s Academic Festival focused on solutions to problems ‘decades in the making’

  • Exploring Poverty’s Impact on Learning

    Neuroscience & Education Student Gabriel Reyes won this year's Student Research Poster competition

  • Toward Better-Thinking Humans

    Vanessa Colella, Citi’s Chief Innovation Officer, on “Artificial Enlightenment”

  • Looking Past the Numbers

    Social Justice Award recipient Rob Gore talks about preventing violence to help youth of color be ‘at their best’

  • To Educate or Legislate?

    For master’s degree student Katie TerBush, that is the question

• December (17 Articles)

  • A Protocol for Listening to Others: A California Town Applies a Method Developed at TC to Its Own Complex Racial History

  • TC Psychologist Douglas Mennin is Co-Recipient of a $3.9 Million Grant to Test a Therapy for ‘Informal Caregivers’ of Cancer Patients

  • Setting the Record Straight on Culturally Responsive Teaching

  • Why Prevention is More Important than Ever Now that COVID-19 Vaccines are Here

  • Rethinking Gun Violence in Schools: A call to focus strategies on prevention

    In The Hechinger Report, Sonali Rajan and Charles Branas argue for a change in thinking

  • More than a Footnote to History

    A paper by two TC alumnae is central to the Biden disabilities policy

  • Feeding Minds — and Families: Daniel Zauderer (M.A. ’17)

    A sixth-grade humanities teacher teams up with a colleague to help Bronx residents

  • Damning with Excessive Praise, and Other Microaggressions: A Washington Post column cites the work of TC’s Derald Wing Sue

  • The Upside of Remote Instruction: On The Brian Lehrer Show, TC’s Christopher Emdin looks beyond technology’s limitations

  • A Tale of Two Teachers: Peace Corps Fellows Program alumni Randy McGinnis and Dichaba McGinty

  • A Teaching Model for Trying Times: TC’s Peace Corps Fellows Program has much to teach an education system in crisis

  • It All Goes Back to Relationships: The Peace Corps Fellows Program’s success reflects three longstanding associations

  • Default Response: On NPR’s Consider This, TC’s Judith Scott-Clayton Explains the Real Dangers of the National Education Debt

  • Christopher Emdin to Join Brian Lehrer Show Today to Discuss Keeping Students Engaged in Online Instruction

  • Playing the Long Game: TC education litigator Michael Rebell is profiled in the Columbia Spectator

  • Bearing Up — But in Danger of Wearing Down: George Bonanno’s read on how people are handling the pandemic

  • Thinking Inside the Box: How NYCDOE official Violet Wanta ended up co-producing kids’ education programming for WNET TV