"Since its inception, Teachers College has served the needs of urban and suburban schools, in this country and abroad, with a commitment to disavantaged children and urban schools. While the conditions facing eduators today are more challenging than ever, the College remains faithful to its mission."
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Matthew Pittinsky has founded a billion-dollar company, but his heart is in the classroom.
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Four years ago, Chandra Williams, 28, was teaching at R.H. Terrell Junior High, an inner-city public school in Washington D.C., when she overheard some of her eighth-grade students discussing their future. Their perceptions of the world were frightening. Having a baby wasn't expensive; you could rent an apartment for two dollars a month; college was unnecessary.
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Led by Professor Gita Steiner-Khamsi, several Teachers College faculty members and doctoral students have been working in Mongolia to moderate five national one-week workshops, suggest ways to revise teaching strategies, design curriculum, initiate cooperative learning, and to look at compatible assessment and testing methods.
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It's Tuesday night, April 26th. Carley Fisher-Maltese has been wearing the same clothes since Sunday. Somewhere along the way, she planned to go back to New Jersey to her house, her husband and five pets. Instead, with her second semester as a Curriculum and Teaching student at Teachers College drawing to a close, she's scrambling to finish her last project. She and four other students are completing a two-year social studies curriculum for their core class. Amid the detritus of a hard night's work - snacks, juice, a pillow and blanket - they talk animatedly about their project.
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On a cold morning last month, approximately 75 members of the Greater Council of the Teachers College Professional Development School (PDS) Partnership met at TC for a day of work sessions.
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Public education advocate Michael Rebell was appointed head of a Teachers College campaign created to bring education research out of the ivory tower and into the cityóó-'ó-'ós public schools.
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Students in nearly 50 charter schools across the city are outperforming their peers in district schools on state tests, according to a study by an education research group at Stanford University.
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The wide gap between results on the national tests and state exams gave more ammunition to critics who argue the state tests have become much easier.
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Aaron Pallas "the school system "hasn't been very transparent about where the weakest students from the closed schools end up."
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On WNYC's SchoolBook blog, Aaron Pallas offers five cost-conscious tips for improving NYC schools.
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On WNYC's SchoolBook blog, Pallas offers five-cost conscious tips for improving NYC schools.
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In this op-ed, which originally appeared on The Hechinger Report, Aaron Pallas writes that NY State rated Syracuse teachers "on a wildly inappropriate metric."
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Alumni Focus: David Johns (M.A. '06) has spent his life thinking about how to improve educational outcomes for African Americans. Now that's his job -- at the White House.
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In this year's Tisch lecture, Howell Wechsler calls on TC and other schools of education to embrace health as part of their mission
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In his blog, "A Sociological Eye on Education," Professor Pallas recounts his long stall by the city's Department of Education in filling his request for information on national test preparation.
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Commenting on a Gates Foundation study showing that effective teaching can be measured, the Professor of Sociology and Education says it's unclear how any formula will work in "high-stakes conditions."
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In the first installment of opinion pieces that give education advice to President Obama in his second term, Pallas writes that Race to the Top, Obama's signature education program, promoted "unproven policies."
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One-year changes in test scores are not a "referendum" on education policies or initiatives, Pallas writes.
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Pallas's blog, the Sociological Eye on Education, profiles a very successful teacher who was rated by a value-added model "the worst eighth-grade math teacher in New York City."
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In the Hechinger Report, the Professor of Sociology and Education pens a send-up of proposal to use "value-added" assessments in higher education.
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Aaron Pallas, Professor of Sociology and Education, appeared recently on the program "Democracy Now" as part of a segment on school privatization and teacher evaluation.
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Posted first on The Hechinger Report website, the Professor of Sociology and Education writes that in today's parlance, teacher evaluations are incorrectly seen as "rigorous" if they rate teachers as ineffective.
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The Professor of Sociology and Education told Winnie Hu at the Times that using independent observers in teacher evaluations "has the potential to address" teachers' concerns about fairness.
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But those values collide head-on in New York State education law, the Professor of Sociology and Education and frequent blogger writes on GothamSchools.
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The study, co-authored with Will Marinell, was presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management's fall meeting.
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Christopher Infantry: Channeling Mrs. O'Connell
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TC's Aaron Pallas has recently engaged in a series of online exchanges with Joel Klein, the former chancellor of New York City public schools who currently runs New Corp.'s new education division, about Klein's record as schools chief.
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Mexican immigrant teens are often trapped in dead-end jobs without hope for education. Doctoral graduate Isabel Martinez has explored ways to help
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Pallas said, "Schools are the last bastion of a kind of social order... to have them subjected to this kind of upheaval, cannot be good for kids."
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As early as today, the courts could potentially authorize the public release of the Teacher Data Reports for 12,000 New York City elementary and middle school teachers. Writing in the Daily News, TC's Aaron Pallas cautions that value-added measures, in conjunction with other measures of teachers' skills and abilities, shed useful light on a teacher's performance. Taken in isolation, however, these measures fall far short of telling us all that we want to know. (NY Daily News)
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The unimpressive showing by the United States on a global comparison of academic achievement among 15-year-olds is a wake-up call -- but the nation should adapt rather than adopt the approaches of competitors.
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A panel of TC faculty responds to a controversial documentary about dysfunctional American schools by Davis Guggenheim
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A panel of TC faculty members react to director Davis Guggenheim's Waiting for "Superman"
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TC screened "Waiting for Superman," the controversial new documentary about five families trying to get their children into charter schools. A panel of TC faculty discussed the film in the Cowin Center auditorium.
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In a National Public Radio story, Aaron Pallas says the city's gains on test results are "far less than what actually we now know to have happened."
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The Professor of Sociology and Education spoke with the "Marketplace" show on NPR and with BronxTalk, a cable TV show from the Bronx.
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Pallas, Professor of Sociology and Education, was interviewed by ABC Channel 7 and New York 1, and wrote an opinion piece for the New York Daily News website, about the disappointing state standardized test results.
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TC's Aaron Pallas is one of several commentators weighing in on this subject on the New York Times' online editorial forum, "Room for Debate."
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Assistant Professor Douglas Ready, and professors Jeffrey Henig and Aaron Pallas, experts in testing and accountability measures, are available to discuss the planned release of teacher evaluation data by the New York City Department of Education.
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The new department will centralize the College's interdisciplinary policy work and bring together some of the nation's leading experts.
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Morales and Pallas Are This Year's Brantley Award Winners
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Last week, New York City released performance ratings for 18,000 teachers based on student test scores, following a ruling the state's highest court the information could be made public.
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International stakeholders will gather for a conference and institute, from March 28 through March 31, to discuss how standardized tests and other assessments are constructed, what they measure, and whether the results are appropriately used.
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Experts from around the world gathered at TC in March to debate whether standardized tests are used in fair and valid ways
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Last year, when Colorado began offering a new public school program that enables kids to grab breakfast off a lobby cart and chow down during their first-period classes, some teachers and administrators raised concerns.
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Rankings by Rick Hess, education blogger for the American Enterprise Institute, include President Susan Fuhrman and Thomas Bailey, Jeff Henig, Luis Huerta, Sharon Lynn Kagan, Hank Levin, Ernest Morrell, Aaron Pallas, Michael Rebell, Judith Scott-Clayton, Amy Stuart Wells and Penny Wohlstetter. Hess annually ranks university scholars by their contributions to public debates about education.
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