2016-2017

Faculty News & Notes

March 2017

Honors and Awards

Randall E. Allsup was keynote speaker for the New Directions in Music Education conference at Michigan State University, February 16-18, 2017. His presentation was titled "If, Ands, and Buts: A Polyphonic Vision of Qualitative Research in Music Education.

Ernest Morrell was awarded as a 2017 Honoree of the Divergent Award for Excellence in 21st Century Literacies.

Kimberly Noble received the Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformational Early Career Contributions, Association for Psychological Science.

Beth Tipton will receive the 2017 Early Career Award from the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology.

Journal Articles

Li, Na., & Black, John.  (2016). Inter-Level scaffolding and sequences of representational activities in teaching a chemical system with graphical simulations.  Journal of Science Education and Technology, 25, 715-730.

Bowers, Alex. J., Blitz, M., Modeste, M., Salisbury, J., & Halverson, R. (2017). How leaders agree with teachers in schools on measures of leadership practice: A two-level latent class analysis of the comprehensive assessment of leadership for learning. Teachers College Record, 119(4), http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentId=21677

Mendenhall, Mary., Bartlett, L., & Ghaffar-Kucher, A. (2016). “If you need help, they are always there for us”: Education for refugees in an international high school in NYC. Urban Review, doi 10.1007/s11256-016-0379-4

Simmons, J., Rajan, Sonali., Elliot, L., & Goldsamt, L. (2017). Implementation of online opioid overdose prevention, recognition, and response trainings for professional first responders: Year 1 results.  Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 169, 42739.

Books and Book Chapters

Cortina, Regina. (2017). How to Improve quality education for indigenous children in Latin America. In R. Cortina (Ed.), Indigenous education policy, equity, and intercultural understanding in Latin America. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Levin, Henry. M.  (2017). The economic payoff to investing in educational justice. In P. Siljander, K. Kontio & E. Pikkarainen (Eds.), Education in Transition (161-190). Boston: Sense Publishers.

Levin, Henry. (2017). Urbildningsekonomi (Economics of Education) in Swedish. In A. Klapp., S. Abrams., & H. Levin (Eds.), Utbildningsekonomi Om Larandets Varde, (19-52). Natur & Kultur: Stockholm.

Levin, Henry. M. (2017). Empirical puzzles on effective teachers: U.S. research. In M. Rosen, K.Y.  Hansen, & U. Wolff (Eds.), Cognitive abilities and educational outcomes (pp. 189-204). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Mendenhall, Mary., & Tangelder, M. (2017). Faculty development for education in emergencies: A university-NGO partnership in Kenya. In C. Smith & K. Hudson (Eds.), Faculty development in developing and fragile contexts: Theory and practice for improving the quality of teaching in higher education, (pp. 41-63). New York, NY: Routledge.

Merz, E.C., & Noble, Kimberly. G. (2017). Neural development in context: Differences in neural structure and function associated with adverse childhood experiences. In E. Votruba-Drzal & E. Dearing (Eds.) Handbook of early childhood development programs, practices and policies (pp. 135-160). New Jersey: Wiley.

Ford, D., Lawson-Davis, J., Trotman-Fraizer, M., & Sealey-Ruiz, Yolanda.  (2017). Gumbo for the Soul: Liberating memoirs and stories to inspire females of color.  New York, NY: Information Age Publishing.


Waring, Hansun Zhang. (2017). Conversation. In A. Barron & G. Steen (Eds.), Routledge handbook of pragmatics, (pp. 357-370). London: Routledge.

Public Communication

Randall E. Allsup was interviewed in the article "Creating an LGBTQ-Friendly Music Program" for the practitioner journal Teaching Music, January 2017.

Lena, Jennifer. (2017, January 9). Artifacts and allegiances: How museums put the nation and the world on display. [Review of the book Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display, by P. Levitt]. Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 46(1), 98-99.

Levin, Henry. M. (2016, November 29). PISA 2015 won't provide the answers to educational excellent.  US News and World Report. Retrieved from https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2016-11-30/pisa-2015-wont-provide-the-answers-to-educational-excellence

Kimberly Noble was a Charlie Rose Show panelist on February 10, 2017.

 

 

 

 

Faculty Achievement in Grant Monies Received as reported by the Office of Grants and Contracts:

New grant monies

Project Director

Project Title

Grantor

Grant


Thomas Bailey


Mathematics Pathways to Completion


University Texas at Austin


$ 150,000

 

Thomas Bailey

 

Multiple Measures Assessment Evaluation

 

MDRC

 

$ 302,200

Judith Burton

SL-CN: Harnessing the Power of Drawing for the Enhancement of Learning Across Levels of Vision Function

Smith-Kettlewell

$ 23,249

Sharon Lynn Kagan

Advancing Early Childhood Policy in American Institutions of Higher Education: Networking Meeting Prospectus

Buffett Early Childhood Fund

$ 45,000

 

Mary Mendenhall

 

Fund for Knowledge

Comparative International Education Society

 

$ 2,000


Lori Quinn


Feasibility and Accessibility of Implementing a Clinic-based Physical Activity Coaching Intervention in People with Pre-manifest and Early Stage Huntington's Disease

 


Huntington Study Group


$ 10,000


Helena Verdeli


Kolkata Global Mental Health Lab


EmancipAction


$ 102,710

 

 

 

Supplement grant monies

 

Project Director


Project Title


Grantor


Grant

Riddhi Sandil

College Advising for High Achieving Low Income Students

Jack Kent Cooke Foundation

$ 8,234

 

Faculty News & Notes

February 2017

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Faculty Awards and Honors:

William Gaudelli was named a Rutgers University 250th Commemoration Fellow for his work in global citizenship education.

ZhaoHong Han gave the keynote address at the China’s Fifth Conference on ESP (English for Specific Purposes) in Kunming, China. The keynote was entitled: What kind of proficiency should be sought after in ESP education and how.

Jennifer Lena was appointed Editor-In-Chief, Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, Media, and the Arts https://www.journals.elsevier.com/poetics

Henry Levin debated the issue of school choice with Chester Finn before the William F. Buckley Program's "Firing Line" at Yale University on 3 November 2016.  Finn took the Pro stance, and Levin embraced the Con position on universal school choice.

Anna Neumann has been appointed to the Advisory Group for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s inaugural research initiative on the value and effectiveness of a liberal arts education, under the new Mellon Research Forum for investigating cross-sector problems in the humanities, arts, and higher education.

Kimberly Noble delivered a talk at Pediatric Grand Rounds event at the Children’s Hospital of Montefiore entitled: "Socioeconomic Inequality and Children's Neurocognitive Development.”

Kimberly Noble received the Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformational Early Career Contributions, Association for Psychological Science.

James E. Purpura received a Federal Assistance Award as an English Language Specialist from the Fulbright Hays Commission to travel to Costa Rica to work with the Publish Affairs Section of the US Embassy and the National English Language Advisors at the Ministry of Public Education to further develop short, mid and long term plans for designing and implementing English Language Learning-Oriented Assessments.

James E. Purpura was offered a 2016-2017 Fulbright Fellowship in Teaching and Research. He will be spending the Spring 2017 semester at the University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy for teaching a course and doing cross-linguistic research on learning-oriented assessment using hypothetical scenarios.

Lori Quinn received a Training in Grantsmanship for Rehabilitation Research (TIGRR) award from NIH.

Sonali Rajan was invited to join the Editorial Board of Health Behavior and Policy Review.

Sonali Rajan was invited to join the Review Board of the American Journal of Health Behavior.

Susan Recchia received Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education 2015 Distinguished Article Preparing Early Childhood Professionals for Relationship-Based Work with Infants.

Elizabeth Tipton received the APA Division 5 Early Career Award.

 

Journal Articles

Brookhart, S.,  Guskey, T., Bowers, Alex. J.,  McMillan, J. Smith, L. Smith, J., Welsh, M. (2016).  A century of grading research: Meaning and value in the most common educational measure. Review of Educational Research, 86(4), 803-848.

Deming, D. J., Cohodes, Sarah, R., Jennings, J., &  Jencks, C. (2016). School accountability, postsecondary attainment and earnings. Review of Economics and Statistics, 58(5), 848-862.

Erickson, Ansley T. (2016). Desegregation's Architects: Education Parks and the Spatial Ideology of Schooling. History of Education Quarterly, 56(4), 560-589.

Steinberg, J., & Farber, Barry. A. (2016). Expectations of psychotherapy: Millenials versus baby-boomers. Psychotherapy Bulletin, 51, 7-11.

Suzuki, J. Y., & Farber, Barry. A. (2016). Towards greater specificity of the concept of positive regard. Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies, 15, 263-284.

Mullin, A., Hilsenroth, M., Gold, J., & Farber, Barry . (2016). Facets of object representation: Process and outcome over the course of psychodynamic psychotherapy.  Journal of Personality Assessment, doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2016.1215320

Mullin, A., Hilsenroth, M., Gold, J., & Farber, Barry. (2016). Changes in object relations over the course of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, doi: 10.1002/cpp.2021

Blanchard, M., & Farber, Barry. A . (2016). Lying in psychotherapy: Why and what clients doesn’t tell their therapist about therapy and their relationship. Counseling Psychology Quarterly, 29, 90-112.

Farber, Barry. A., & Nitzburg, G.C. (2016). Young adult self-disclosures in psychotherapy and on Facebook. Counseling Psychology Quarterly, 29, 76-89.

Han, ZhaoHong. (2016). A "reimagined SLA" or an expanded SLA? A rejoinder to the Douglas Fir Group. The Modern Language Journal.

Han, ZhaoHong. (2016). Research meets practice: Holding off and holding on. Chinese as a Second Language: The Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association.

Holbert, Nathan. (2016) .The powerful ideas of making: Building beyond the curriculum. Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 5(30).

Keller, Bryan., & Tipton, Elizabeth. (2016). Propensity score analysis in R: A software review. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 41, 326–348.

Naraian, Srikala. (2016). Spatializing student learning to reimagine the "place" of inclusion. Teachers College Record, 118, 1-46.

Richards, T., Peverly, Stephen., Wolf, A., Abbott, R., Tanimoto, S., Thompson, R., Nagy, W. and Berninger, V.  (2016). Idea units in notes and summaries for read texts by keyboard and pencil in middle childhood students with specific learning disabilities:  Cognitive and brain findings.  Trends in Neuroscience and Education, 5, 146-155.

Thompson, R., Tanimoto, S., Abbott, R., Nielsen, K., Lyman, R. D., Geselowitz, K., Habermann, K., Mickail, T., Raskin, M., Peverly, Stephen., Nagy, W. & Berninger, V. (2016). Comparing transcription modes for students with and without specific learning disabilities: Stylus versus groovy pencils and hunt/peck versus touch typing. Assistive Technology.

Yeon, S., Lee, M. S., & Recchia, Susan. (2016). Primary caregiving as a framework for preparing early childhood pre-service students to understand and work with infants. Early Education and Development, 27(3), 336-351.

Lee, Y., & Recchia, Susan. (2016) Zooming in and out: Exploring teacher competencies in inclusive early childhood classrooms. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 30(1), 1-14.

Lee Y., Park, H., & Recchia, Susan. (2016). Embracing each other and growing together: Redefining the meaning of caregiving a child with disabilities. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 24(12), 3662-3675.

Tipton, Elizabeth., Fellers, L., Caverly, S., Vaden-Kiernan, M., Borman, G., Sullivan, K., & Ruiz de Castilla, V.  (2016). Site selection in experiments: A follow-up evaluation of site recruitment in two scale-up studies. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 9(sup1), 209-228.

Vasudevan, Lalitha & Rodriguez Kerr, K. (2016) .Making foster youths’ lives and everyday literacies visible through film.  Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 60(3), 363-367.

Waring, Hansun Zhang., Box, C., & Creider, S., (2016). Problematizing vocabulary in the language classroom.  Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, 10(1), 87-108.

Books and Book Chapters

Cortina, Regina. (Ed.). (2017).  Indigenous education policy, equity, and intercultural understanding in Latin America. New York, New York. Palgrave Macmillan.

Cortina, Regina. (2017). How to improve quality education for Indigenous children in Latin America. In R. Cortina (Ed.), Indigenous education policy, equity, and intercultural understanding in Latin America (pp. 3-25). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Dougherty, Kevin., Jones, S., Lahr, H., Natow, R., Pheatt, L., & Reddy, V. (2016). Performance funding for higher education. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Mensah, Felicia. (2017). Identity drawing in elementary science teacher education. In P. Katz (Ed.). Drawing for science education: An international perspective.  Netherlands, Sense Publishers.

Purpura, James. (2017). Assessing meaning. In L. Or & E. Shohamy (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Language and Education, Vol. 7. Language Testing and Assessment New York, NY:  Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

Public Communication

Cohodes, Sarah., &  Dynarski, S. (2015, September, 15).  Massachusetts charter cap holds back disadvantaged students. Brookings Institution. Retrieved from https://www.brookings.edu/research/massachusetts-charter-cap-holds-back-disadvantaged-students/

Gaudelli, William. (2017, January 18). Coming together: Global search for education. HuffPost. Retrieved from  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/c-m-rubin/the-global-search-for-edu_b_14192900.html.

Henig, Jeffrey, Jacobsen, R., & Reckhow. (2016, November, 9).Are wealthy donors influencing the public school agenda? Conversation. Retrieved from https://theconversation.com/are-wealthy-donors-influencing-the-public-school-agenda-65869

Sabic-El-Rayess, Amra. (2017, January 15). Melania’s new shoes, or trouble afoot in the Balkans. Huffington Post. Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/melanias-new-shoes-or-trouble-afoot-in-the-balkans_us_587bca42e4b077a19d180ec2

 

Faculty Achievement in Grant Monies Received as reported by the Office of Grants and Contracts:

New grant monies

Project Director

Project Title

Grantor

Grant


Thomas Bailey


Developmental Ed Support Funds


Education Commission of the States


$ 60,000

 

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

 

Subsidized Housing and Children's Outcomes: Evidence from Housing Lotteries

 

William T. Grant Foundation

 

$13,797

Oren Pizmony-Levy

Global Assessment, Local Use: How States Use Results from International Large-Scale Assessments of Education in Policy and Practice

Spencer Foundation

$ 49,249

Amy Stuart Wells

The Public Good

The Ford Foundation

$ 400,000

 

Renewal grant monies

 

Project Director


Project Title


Grantor


Grant

Thomas Bailey

CUNY Start Evaluation

MDRC

$198,364

Andrew Gordon

Neural Predictors of Hand Therapy Efficacy in Children with Cerebral Palsy

Winifred Masterson Burke

$ 138,661

Ellen Meier

Alliance for Learning Environments in STEM

City College of New York

$ 20,000

Supplement grant monies

 

Project Director


Project Title


Grantor


Grant

John Allegrante

Sleep Health Education

New York University

$ 13,392

 

 

Faculty News & Notes

October 2016

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Faculty Awards and Honors:

Madhabi Chatterji will provide the keynote address titled, Contemporary methodologies for assessing student learning and evaluating the effectiveness of complex programs in higher education at the XIIth National Forum on Educational Evaluation to be held on October 28-29, 2016 at the Universidad Autonóma de San Luis Potosi, Mexico, sponsored by Centro Nacional De Evaluación Para La Educación Superior (CENEVAL)*, Mexico City.

Christopher Edmin was ranked 44th to the Root100. This is an annual list of the most influential African-Americans in the fields of business, science, politics, technology, social justice, sports and entertainment.

Carol Garber was appointed Associate Editor of Exercise and Sports Science Reviews.

Henry Levin has been appointed to the Council of Distinguished Scientists of The National Commission on Social Emotional, and Academic Development, a multi-year initiative of the Aspen Institute to build on the powerful evidence shown by the integration of social and emotional development with academic learning.

Elissa Perry,along with third-year TC doctoral student, Dave Mendelsohn, won the Best Student Paper Award in the Gender and Diversity Division at the Academy of Management Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA this past August.

Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz appeared in Director Spike Lee's documentary "2 Fists Up: We Gon Be Alright" and hosted with an alum a screening of the documentary in Cowin auditorium.

Lyle Yorks was named Distinguished Principal Research Fellow by The Conference Board.

 

Journal Articles

Dutt, K., Pfaff, D., Bernstein, A., Dillard, J. & Block, Caryn. J.  (2016). Gender differences in letters of recommendations for postdoctoral fellowships in geoscience. Nature Geoscience, doi: 10.1038/ngeo2819

Katz-Navon, T., Unger-Aviram, E., & Block, Caryn. J. (2016).  Examining the cross-level influence of dispositional and team goal orientations on employee self-regulation and performance in a complex task environment. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, doi: 10.1177/0021886316665460

Chatterji, Madhabi. (2016). Causal inferences on the effectiveness of complex social programs:

Navigating assumptions, sources of complexity and evaluation design challenges.  Evaluation and Program Planning, 56(6) 128–140.

 

Chatterji, Madhabi., Tripken, J., Johnson, S., Koh, N., Sabain, S., Allegrante, J.P. & Kufafka, R. (2016). Development and validation of a health information technology curriculum:  Towards meaningful use of electronic health records. Pedagogy in Health Promotion, 2(4), 1-13.

 

Lerner, I., Lupkin, S. M., Corter, James. E., Peters, S. E., Cannella, L. A. & Gluck, M. A. (2016). Emotional reactivity and category learning are affected by sleep in a trait- (but not state-) dependent manner.  Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 134(B), 275–286.

 

Xing, C., Corter, James. C., & Zahner, D. (2016). Diagrams affect choice of strategy in probability problem solving. In M. Jamnik, Y. Uesaka & S. E. Schwartz (Eds.), Diagrammatic representation and inference (Volume 9781 of Lecture notes in computer science., pp. 3-16). New York: Springer.

 

Emdin, Christopher, Adjapong, E., Levy, I. (2016).  Hip-hop based interventions as pedagogy/therapy in STEM: A model from urban science education. Journal for Multicultural Education 10(3), 307-321.

Russell, Susan Garnett. (2016). Global gender discourses in education: Evidence from post-genocide Rwanda. Comparative Education, 52(3), 1-24.

Russell, Susan Garnett, & Quaynor, L. (2016).  Constructing citizenship in post-conflict contexts: The cases of Liberia and Rwanda. Globalisation, Societies, and Education, 14(3), 1-23.

Piccolo, L., Merz, E.C., Brito, N.H., He, X., Sowell, E.R., & Noble, Kimberly G. (2016).  Age-related changes in cortical thickness vary by socioeconomic status. PLOS One 11(9) e0162511.

Mendelsohn, D., & Perry, Eliss. L. (2016).  Faculty gender diversity and university performance: The role of diversity climate. Proceedings of the 2016 Academy of Management Meeting, Annaheim, CA.

Perry, Elissa L., Golom, F., & Catenacci, L., Ingraham, M.E., Covais, E.M., & Molina, J.J.(2016).  Talkin’ ‘bout your generation: The impact of applicant age and generation on hiring-related perceptions and outcomes. Work, Aging, and Retirement, 1-14. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/workar/waw029

Aronson, I., Cleland, C., Perlman, D., Rajan, Sonali, Sun, W., & Bania, T.(2016).  Feasibility of a computer-based intervention addressing barriers to HIV testing among young patients who decline tests at triage. Journal of Health Communication, 21(9), 1039-1045.

Haddix, M. & Sealey-Ruiz, Yolanda. (Eds.) (2016, July). Black girls’ literacies. English Education, 48(4).

Sealey-Ruiz, Yolanda & Haddix, M. (2016).  Education as if black lives mattered. Special Edition of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division B Newsletter.

Sealey-Ruiz, Yolanda. (2016, July). Why black girls’ literacies matter: New literacies for a new era. English Education. 48(4), 290-298.

Tversky, Barbara, Gao, J., Corter, James, Tanaka, Y. & Nickerson, J. V. (2016).  People, place, and time: Inferences from diagrams. In M. Jamnik, Y. Uesaka & S. E. Schwartz (Eds.), Diagrammatic representation and inference (Volume 9781 of Lecture notes in computer science., pp. 258-264). New York: Springer.


Parks, C., Wallace, Barbara C., Emdin, Christopher, Levy, I.P. (2016).  An examination of gendered violence and school push-out directed against urban black Girls/adolescents: Illustrative data, cases and a call to action.  Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy 15(3), 210-219.

Book

Choo, S., Sawch, D., Viillanueva, Vinz, Ruth. (Eds.). (2016). Educating for the 21st century: Perspectives, policies and practices from around the world. Hong Kong: Springer Asia Limited.

Public Communication

John Allegrante was invited to be one of the featured conference speakers at the InterAcademy Partnership for Health 2016 High-Level Forum on Promoting Health, September 27-28, in Beijing, China, sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Peking Union Medical College.

Carol Benson's commissioned background paper on language of instruction has been published on the website of UNESCO's first Global Education Monitoring Report. Reference:  Benson, C. (2016) Addressing language of instruction issues in education: Recommendations for documenting progress. Background paper commissioned by UNESCO for the Global Education Monitoring Report 2016. Paris: UNESCO. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0024/002455/245575E.pdf

Chris Emdin participated in Wisconsin Public Radio (NPR): Will More Black Male Teachers Help Black Boys Better Succeed in School?

Chris Emdin was seen on: CTV News (Canada) Hip hop meets Einstein: Students learn science through rap battles - http://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/hip-hop-meets-einstein-students-learn-science-through-rap-battles-1.3076974

Faculty Achievement in Grant Monies Received as reported by the Office of Grants and Contracts:

New grant monies

Project Director

Project Title

Grantor

Grant


Thomas Bailey


Implementing Transfer Playbook


Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation


$ 266,000

 

Thomas Bailey

 

Knowledge Development for Scaling Guided Pathways Reforms in Ohio

 

Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation

 

$1,500,000

Charles Basch

Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Programs

New York University

$ 46,862

George Bonanno

Duke University Collaborative Research

Duke University

$ 15,000

 

Thomas Corcoran

 

Evaluation of Thailand's Premium Teacher Education Program

Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology

 

$ 355,361


Carol Garber

 


Health Policy Research Scholars Cohort One


Robert Wood Johnson Foundation


$ 30,000

 

Mary Hafeli

 

To Support a Secondary Analysis of School and Student Data from the Champions of Change Study, Learning In and Throughout the Arts

 

 

National Endowment for the Arts

 

$ 46,209

 

Carol Hammer

 

Parents Plus: Language Coach

 

Lehigh University

 

$ 94,045

 

Thomas Hatch

 

 

 

Improve or Innovate? The Possibilities and Challenges for Educational Transformation Across Contexts

 

Spencer Foundation

 

$ 49,999

 

Nathan Holbert

Collaborative Research: RAPID: CS-NYCE: An Ecological Approach to Understanding the Rollout of Student Centered Computer Science Education in New York City

 

National Science Foundation

 

$ 67,072


Mariana Souto-Manning


High Quality Culturally-relevant Universal Pre-K Practices Across Communities


City College of New York


$ 75,000

 

Renewal grant monies

 

Project Director


Project Title


Grantor


Grant

Thomas Bailey

National Research and Development Center on Developmental Education Assessment and Instruction

United States Department of Education

$1,898,154

Henry Levin

Methods Training for Research Using Cost-Effectiveness and Cost-Benefit Analysis

United States Department of Education

$ 348,142

James Purpura

ETS Doctoral Internship in Language Assessment

Educational Testing Services

$ 28,300

Supplement grant monies

 

Project Director


Project Title


Grantor


Grant

Catherine Crowley

Eastern Suffolk Schools

Wyncote Foundation

$ 10,000

 

Catherine Crowley

 

Smile Train Cleft Project

 

Smile Train Inc.

 

$ 7,000

 

Pamela Koch

 

 

Evaluating FoodCorps' Impact on Children's Consumption during School Meals

FoodCorps

$ 24,454

Barbara Tversky

CHS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Augmented Reality for Multiple People, Perspectives, Platforms and Tasks

National Science Foundation

$ 149,559

Priscilla Wohlstetter

Survey Research Initiative

Voices College- Bound Language Academies

$ 422

 

 

Faculty News & Notes

September 2016

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Faculty Awards & Honors:

 

John Allegrante will be presented with the 2017 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award at the 68th annual meeting of the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) conference.

 

Randall E. Allsup was the keynote speaker of the Third Symposium on LGBT Studies and Music Education at the University of Illinois, May 21, 2016. His presentation was titled “Fractured (fairy) Tales: In Search of Transformational Spaces in Music Education.”

 

Christopher Emdin has been appointed a Visiting Scholar at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania in their Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education for 2016/2017.

 

Christopher Emdin has been invited to participate in the Congressional Black Caucus panel by the White House Initiative for African American Education. “Producing STEM STARS: Supporting Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Success among African American Students. (September 2016)

 

Christopher Emdin has been invited to participate in the Congressional Black Caucus panel by Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson. Congressional Black Caucus’ Annual Legislative Conference (ALC) “Mars 2033: The Future of Space Exploration.”

 

Ansley Erickson will receive the 2016 History of Education (HES) Society Prize for the best article in the field published during the past two years at the HES annual conference in November.

 

Henry Levin gave the keynote address this past June at the Spanish Economics of Education Society in Badajoz, Spain, titled “Benefit-Cost Analysis of Social and Emotional Learning.”

 

Felicia Moore Mensah will receive the 2017 Outstanding Science Teacher Educator of the Year Award from the Association of Science Teacher Education.

 

Lori Quinn was the plenary speaker at the American Physical Therapy Association IV STEP meeting this past July at Ohio State University.

 

Ann Rivet has been appointed for a two-year position as a Program Officer in the Division for Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings at the National Science Foundation, starting in September 2016.

 

Gita Steiner-Khamsi, in her association with ICREST (the international branch of TC’s National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools and Teachers), along with her graduate students who participated in the project, received an award from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for the “Most Successful Development Project” for their ADB-funded project on "Education for the Poor” with their national partner in Mongolia, the Mongolian Education Alliance.

 

Priscilla Wohlstetter was elected in spring 2016 to a 3-year term as president of the Charters & School Choice Special Interest Group (SIG) of the American Educational Research Association.

 

 

 

Faculty Publications of Books and Refereed Journal Articles:

 

Allsup, Randall E. (2016). Remixing the classroomToward an open philosophy of music           education. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Shieh, E., & Allsup, Randall E. (2016). Fostering musical independence. Music Educators Journal, 102(4), 30-35.

Boyce, J., Bowers, Alex J. (2016). Principal turnover: Are there different types of principals who move from or leave their schools? A latent class analysis of the 2007-08 schools and staffing survey and the 2008-09 principal follow-up survey. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 15(3), 237-272. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15700763.2015.1047033

Wang, Y., Bowers, Alex J. (2016). Mapping the field of educational administration research: A journal citation network analysis of the discipline. Journal of Educational Administration, 54(3), 242-269. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JEA-02-2015-0013

Jackson, M., & Buckner, Elizabeth. (2016). Opportunity without equity: Educational inequality and constitutional protections in Egypt. Sociological Science 3, 730-756.

Buckner, Elizabeth, & Hodges, R. (2016). Cheating or cheated? Surviving secondary exit exams in a neoliberal era. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 46(4), 603-623.

Buckner, Elizabeth, Chedda, S., & Kindreich, J. (2016). Teacher professional development in the UAE: What do teachers really want? Policy Paper 16. Ras Al-Khaimah, UAE: Al Qasimi Foundation. Retrieved from http://www.alqasimifoundation.com/en/publication/59/teacher-professional-development-in-the-uae-what-do-teachers-actually-want

Cohodes, Sarah R., Grossman, D.S., Kleiner, S.A., &. Lovenheim, M.F. (2016). The effect of child health insurance access on schooling: Evidence from public insurance expansions. Journal of Human Resources, 51(3), 556-588.

Chabrier, J., Cohodes, Sarah R. & Oreopoulos. P. (2016). What can we learn from charter school lotteries? Journal of Economic Perspectives, 30(3), 57-84.

Custodero, Lori A., Cali, C., and Diaz-Donoso, A.  (2016). Tunes and rhythms as transitional objects: Children's spontaneous musical behaviors on the subway. Research Studies in Music Education, 38(1), 55-74.

Dougherty, Kevin J., Jones, S., Lahr, H., Natow, R. S., Pheatt, L., &  Reddy, V. (2016, April). Looking inside the black box of performance funding for Higher Education:  Policy instruments, outcomes, obstacles, and unintended impacts. Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2(3), 147-173. 

Dougherty, Kevin J., & Henig, Jeffrey R. (2016).  Governance as a source of sector convergence in a changing sociopolitical landscape. In Christopher P. Loss & Patrick McGuinn (Eds.), Convergence: U.S. education policy fifty years after the ESEA and the HEA of 1965 (pp. 21-41). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

 

Edmonds, Lisa A. (2016). A review of Verb Network Strengthening Treatment: Theory, methods, results and clinical implications. Topics in Language Disorders, 36(2), 123- 135.

Hung, J., Edmonds, Lisa A., Reilly, J. (2016). Words speak louder than pictures for action concepts: An eyetracking investigation of the picture superiority effect in semantic categorization. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2016.1198818

Kamil-Rosenberg, S., & Garber, Carol E. (2016). Cardiac conditioning for healthy individuals: Primary prevention of heart disease. Current Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Reports. 1-10. doi: 10.1007/s40141-016-0130-9

 

Rossi, A., Garber, Carol E, Ortiz, M., Shankar, V., Goldberg, G.L., Nevadunsky, N.S. (2016). Feasibility of a physical activity intervention for obese, socioculturally diverse endometrial cancer survivors. Gynecol Oncol. 142(2), 304-10. doi: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2016.05.034

Young, S.D., Montes, J., Kramer, S.S., Marra, J., Salazar. R., Cruz, R., Chiriboga, C.A., Garber, Carol E., De Vivo, D.C. (2016). Six-minute walk test is reliable and valid in spinal muscular atrophy. Muscle Nerve. doi: 10.1002/mus.25120

Gephart, Martha A., & Marsick, Victoria J. (2016). Strategic organizational learning: Using system dynamics for innovation and sustained performance. New York: Springer Publishing Company.

Lee, T., Marneweck, M., Santello, M., Gordon, Andrew. (2016). Visual cues of object properties differentially affect anticipatory planning of digit forces and placement. PLOS One11(4), e0154033. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154033

Kuo, H-C., Gordon, Andrew M., Henrionnet, A., Hautfenne, S., Friel, K., & Bleyenheuft, Y. (2016). The effects of intensive bimanual training with and without tactile training on tactile function in children with unilateral spastic cerebral palsy. Research Developmental Disabilities, 49-50,129-139. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2015.11.024

 

Hammer, Carol S., & Sawyer, B. (2016).  Development of a culturally responsive book reading intervention for Latina mothers and their head start children. National Head Start Association Dialog, 18(4), 123-128. 

 

Hammer, Carol S., & Sawyer, B. (2016).  Effects of a culturally responsive interactive book-reading intervention on the language abilities of preschool dual language learners: A pilot study.  National Head Start Association Dialog18(4)59-79. 

Morgan, P., Hammer, Carol S., Farkas, G., Hillemeier, M., Maczuga, S., Cook, M., & Morano, S. (2016).  Who receives speech/language services by five years of age in the U.S.? American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 25,183-199.

Lewis, K., Hammer, Carol S., Sandilos, L., Sawyer, B. & Mendez, L. (2016).  Relations among the home language and literacy environment and children's language abilities: A study of head start dual language learners and their mothers. Early Education and Development, 27, 478-494.

Hatch, Thomas, Hill, K., & Roegman, R. (2016). Investigating the role of instructional rounds in the development of social networks and district-wide improvement. American Educational Research Journal53(4), 1022-1053.


Jahromi, Laudan B.
, Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Updegraff, K. A., Zeiders, K. H. (2016).   Trajectories of developmental functioning among children of adolescent mothers: Factors associated with risk for delay.  American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 121, 343-363.

Seay, D., Jahromi, Laudan B., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., & Updegraff, K. A. (2016).   Intergenerational transmission of maladaptive parenting strategies in families of adolescent mothers: Effects from grandmothers to young children. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 44, 1097-1109.

Zeiders, K. H., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Jahromi, Laudan B., & Updegraff, K. A. (2016). Grandmothers’ familism values, adolescent mothers’ parenting efficacy, and children’s social competence. Journal of Family Psychology, 29, 624-634.

Derlan, C. L., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Updegraff, K. A., & Jahromi, Laudan B. (2016). Mothers’ characteristics as predictors of adolescents’ ethnic identity: An examination of Mexican-origin teen mothers.  Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 22, 453-459.

Bravo, D.Y., Umaña-Taylor, A.J., Toomey, R.B., Updegraff, K.A., & Jahromi, Laudan B. (2016). Risky behaviors and educational attainment among young Mexican-origin mothers: The role of acculturative stress and the educational aspiration-expectation gap. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 52, 13-26.

Bravo, D.Y., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Zeiders, K.H., Updegraff, K.A., & Jahromi, Laudan B. (2016). Incongruent teen pregnancy attitudes, coparenting conflict, and support among Mexican-origin adolescent mothers. Journal of Marriage and Family, 78, 531-545.

Bravo, D., Toomey, R. B., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Updegraff, K. A., & Jahromi, Laudan B. (2015). Growth trajectories of Mexican-origin adolescent mothers’ educational expectations.  International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1-10.

Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Updegraff, K. A., Jahromi, Laudan. B & Zeiders, K. (2015). Trajectories of ethnic-racial identity and autonomy among Mexican-origin adolescent mothers in the U.S. Child Development, 86, 2034-2050.

Kuhn, Deanna
. (2016). Learning is the key 21st century skill. Learning: Research and Practice. doi.org/10.1080/23735082.2016.1205207

Levin, Henry. (2016). Cost-effectiveness analysis of effective reading programs: A demonstration with recommendations for future research. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 9(1), 30-53.

Martínez-Roldán, Carmen M., & Quiñones, S.  (2016). Resisting erasure and developing networks of solidarity: Testimonios of two Puerto Rican scholars in the academy. Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, (15)3. 151-164. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15348458.2016.1166059

Martínez-Roldán, Carmen M. (2016). When entertainment trumps social concerns: The commodification of Mexican culture and language in Skippyjon Jones. In H. Johnson, J. Mathis, & K. Short (Eds.), Critical content analysis of children’s and young adult literature: Reframing perspectives (pp. 61-76). New York, NY: Routledge.

Rosa, K.,& Mensah, Felicia M. (2016). Educational pathways of Black women physicists: Stories of life.  Physical Review Physics Education Research, 12(1), 020113-020115.

 

Miller, Janet L. (2017).  Generous interrogations and affirmations:  Histories and               trajectories.  In M. A. Doll, (Ed.), The Reconceptualization of Curriculum Studies (pp. 103-110).  New York, NY:  Routledge.  

 

Naraian, Srikala, & Khoja-Moolji, S. (2016). Happy places, horrible times and scary learners: Affective performances and sticky objects in inclusive classrooms. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 1-17. doi/10.1080/09518398.2016.1201608

 

Naraian, Srikala.  (2016). “Real” reading:  Reconciling explicit instruction with inclusive pedagogy in a fourth grade classroom. Urban Education. doi: 10.1177/0042085916648742

 

Ursache, A., & Noble, Kimberly G. (2016) Socioeconomic status, white matter development, and executive function. Brain and Behavior. 1-13. e00531, doi: 1.1002/brb3.531

 

Melvin, S.A., Brito, N.H., Fifer, W.P., Elliott, A., Noble, Kimberly G.(2016). Home environment, but not socioeconomic status, is linked to differences in early phonetic perception ability. Infancy. doi: 10.1111/infa.12145

 

Brito, N.H., Fifer, W.P., Myers, M.M., Elliott, A.J., Noble, Kimberly G. (2016). Associations among family socioeconomic status, EEG power at birth, and cognitive skills during infancy. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 19,144-151.

 

Fritz N., Hamana K., Kelson M., Rosser A., Busse M., Quinn, Lori. (2016). Motor-cognitive dual-task deficits in individuals with early-mid stage Huntington disease. Gait and Posture, 49, 283-289.

 

Quinn, Lori, Hamana K., Kelson, M., et al.  (2016). A randomized, controlled trial of a multi-modal exercise intervention in Huntington’s disease.  Parkinsonism and Related Disorders. doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2016.06.023.

Jones, C., Busse M., Quinn, Lori, et al. (2016). The societal cost of Huntington’s disease: Are we underestimating the burden? European Journal of Neurology. doi: 10.1111/ene.13107

Pelcher, A., & Rajan, Sonali. (2016). After-school program implementation in urban environments: Increasing engagement among adolescent youth. Journal of School Health, 86(8), 585-594.

 

Deitz, R., & Rajan, Sonali. (2016). Access and barriers to yoga as an intervention for at-risk adolescent youth. International Journal of Health Education and Promotion.

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Rebell, Michael. (2016). “Participatory readiness” and the courts. In D. Allen (Ed.). Education and equality (pp. 77-89). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

 

Rebell, Michael. (2016). Adequate funding. In W.J. Mathis & T.T. Trujillo (Eds.), Learning lessons from the federal market-based reforms: Lessons for ESSA. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, Inc.

Keller, B., & Tipton, Elizabeth. (2016). Propensity score analysis in R: A software review. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 41, 326–348.

Wohlstetter, Priscilla, Buck, B., Houston, D.M., & Smith, C.O. (2016). Common core, uncommon theory of action: CEOs in New York City schools. In A.J. Daley & K.S. Finnegan (Eds.), Thinking and acting systemically: Improving school districts under pressure (pp. 147-182). Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association.

Wohlstetter, Priscilla, Gonzales, M.M., & Wang, A.K. (2016). Commentary: What diverse charter schools do differently. Education Week. Retrieved from: http://www.edweek.org/ew/articiles/2016/06/24/what-diverse-charter-schools-do-differently.

 

Public Communication:

 

Christopher Emdin was interviewed by Education Week: Q and A on Teaching Youth of Color. (8/30/2016) http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/bookmarks/2016/09/qa_with_christopher_emdin_putting_youths_of_color_first_in_urban_schools.html

Christopher Emdin was interviewed on NewsOne: A Remedy for Cultural Bias in the Classroom.  (8/23/2016) http://newsone.com/3517177/watch-a-remedy-for-cultural-bias-in-the-classroom

Christopher Emdin was published in the New York Times Op-Ed Sunday section on Why Black Men Quit Teaching (8/27/16) http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/opinion/sunday/why-black-men-quit-teaching.html

Christopher Emdin was interviewed on NPR radio - Back To School Barbershop: New Goals, Homework And Parental Supervision (8/27/16) http://www.npr.org/2016/08/27/491647592/back-to-school-barbershop-new-goals-homework-and-parental-supervision

Christopher Emdin was interviewed on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show: Being Culturally Responsive in Classrooms (6/7/2016) http://www.wnyc.org/story/culturally-responsive-classrooms/

Rajan, Sonali. (2016, June 13).  The human right to be safe. Teachers College Newsroom. Retrieved from: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/articles/2016/june/the-human-right-to-be-safe-tcs-sonali-rajan-on-orlando/

 

Faculty Achievement in Grant Monies Received as reported by the Office of Grants and Contracts:

New grant monies

Project Director

Project Title

Grantor

Grant


Thomas Bailey


Integrated Developmental Education Baseline Study Gates CAPR Survey


Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation


$ 450,000

 

Peter Bergman

 

Do Charter Schools Limit Access to Disadvantaged Students?

 

Russell Sage Foundation

 

$ 26,122

Alex Bowers

Building Community and Capacity for Data-Intensive Evidence-Based Decision Making in Schools and Districts

National Science Foundation

$ 499,623

Alex Bowers

Disrupting the Digital Norm

American Educational Research Association

$ 20,000

 

Corbin Campbell

 

The Construct and Discriminant Validity of Assessing College Teaching Quality and Academic Rigor Using Observation, Survey and Other Emerging Methods

 

Spencer Foundation

 

$ 50,000

 

Sarah Cohodes

 

Leveling the Playing Field for High School Choice through Information Tools: A Randomized Intervention Study

 

 

 

Smith Richardson Foundation

 

$ 249,424


Herbert Ginsburg


Development and Research in Early Mathematics Education Network - Phase II


Stanford University


$ 266,937


Carol Hammer


Development of the Bilingual Assessment of Phonological Sensitivity


United States Department of Education


$ 344,780

 

Alexander Karp


Current Issues in Math Education: the View from Two Countries, a Course for Graduate Students

 

Eurasia Foundation

 

$ 41,000


Ellen Meier


Systemic Transformation of Inquiry Learning Environments for STEM


National Science Foundation


$1,338,888

 

Gita Steiner-Khamsi


Development Capacity of National Stockholders in Monitoring and Evaluation of the Education Programs

 

UNICEF - Uzbekistan

 

$ 36,774


Mary Mendenhall

 


Prototyping Katuma


Amplify


$ 50,000

 

Michelle Troche

 

Novel Management of Airway Protection in Parkinson's Disease: A Clinical Trial

 

 

Michael J. Fox Foundation

 

$ 913,822

 

Renewal grant monies

 

Project Director


Project Title


Grantor


Grant

Ellen Meier

Math for All

Education Development Center

$52,379

Ellen Meier

Bulgaria Young Leaders Program

Institute of International Education

$150,764

Ellen Meier

i2 Learning: Boston Evaluation

i2 Learning

$ 69,999

Supplement grant monies

 

Project Director


Project Title


Grantor


Grant

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Mothers and Infants: Home Visiting Program Evaluation

MDRC

$ 236,606

Isobel Contento

Cook for Your Life: Maintaining Diet and Physical Activity Changes in Latina Breast Cancer Survivors

Columbia University

$ 52,569

Ellen Meier

Alliance for Learning Environments in STEM

City College of New York

$ 20,000

Kimberly Noble

Support the Poverty and Brain Development in Young Children Research Project

Annie E. Casey Foundation

$ 53,230

Michelle Troche

Airway Protection Deficits According to Stimulus Type in Parkinson's Disease

University of Florida

$ 51,334

Mun Tsang

Research on Chinese Education

Patrick Wong

$ 30,000

Priscilla Wohlstetter

Survey Research Initiative

ARCO Spanish Immersion School

$ 460.00

Priscilla Wohlstetter

Survey Research Initiative

School of Arts and Enterprise

$ 900.00

 

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