July

July 2020 (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