TC Stories

Bringing Black History Alive: A TC alumnus’ podcast unites the descendants of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois

Reaching for the Sky: Adversity has spurred N’dea Johnson (M.A. ’20) to help others. Now she hopes to do so in Congress

‘We Have No Choice’

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

The Other Stressor: Violence Against People of Color

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

Looking Past the Numbers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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’

Black Lives Matter Movement Inspires Community Art

‘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

Telling Young People Better Stories About Themselves

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

Hope as Practice

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

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

“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

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

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

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

Tracing Slavery’s Impact on African American Public Health Today

An Activist Educator with Big Shoes to Fill

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

Putting Success in Context

From reimagining research infrastructure to reframing racial narratives, TC Provost Stephanie Rowley inspires people to do their best

Celebrating Shirley Chisholm

The nation is rediscovering the late TC alumna, the first woman of color to serve in Congress and seek the presidency

Celebrating a Landmark Southern Educator – and TC Hero

Mississippi honors the late Jane Ellen McAllister, the nation’s first Black woman to receive a Ph.D. in Education

A Storyteller’s Story

Novelist Wayétu Moore conveys the magic of Liberia’s saga — and her own

An Unforgettable Tribute to a TC Icon

TC formally unveils Edmund W. Gordon’s portrait as the 98-year-old champion of equity looks on

“A Vision of America that Doesn’t Exist”

Brown v. Board of Education notwithstanding, Gordon Lecturer Gloria Ladson-Billings describes inequity that is “baked into our society”

Graduate Gallery 2019: Larrolyn Patterson Parms-Ford (M.A., Music & Music Education) Brings Her Voice to the Classroom

Helping Children See Themselves

Lisa McDonald (Ph.D. Candidate)

Graduate Gallery 2019: Michelle Burris (M.A., Politics & Education) wants to add (D-Maryland) after her name. Soon.

Graduate Gallery 2019: Barry Goldenberg (Ph.D., History & History Education) Leaves a Footprint in Harlem

Legacy: A mother, a son and a question a TC Minority Postdoctoral Fellow continues to answer

The Making of a (Black, Female) Science Teacher: Felicia Mensah chronicles one student’s journey

Affirming Black Girls’ Humanity: Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz blogs in Education Week about the huge disparity in school suspension

Erica Walker is Named TC’s Clifford Brewster Upton Professor of Mathematical Education

In People They Trust

Kathryn Hill finds that for black public school parents, trust requires vigilance and dialogue

Helping Others Find Answers

Claudia Schrader brings a unique mix of skills to the challenge of leading Kingsborough Community College

Mourning Olivia Hooker

The TC alumna, survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre and a leading voice for learning disabled students, was 103

Teaching Brooklyn to Grow Food: An Alumna Shares Her Wisdom on Aquaponic Farming

Giving the Gift of Racial Awareness

For Michele Barakett, working with Robert T. Carter was “life-altering.” Her scholarship gift extends his legacy.

Practicing the Art of Listening

Nicole Brittingham Furlonge, the new director of TC’s Klingenstein Center

Challenging History: Minority Postdoctoral Fellow Michael Hines

Student Profile: Living Many Lives Through the Arts

TC student Deirdre Hollman sees the world through the lens of culture