Students at New York City high schools in Harlem who learned about the failures and personal struggles of famous scientists scored significantly higher on STEM tests than those who did not. The scores of struggling students rose more than those of successful students, according to a Teachers College, Columbia University study.
In an interview in The New York Times, TC's Chris Emdin responds to the story of Ed Boland, an executive at Prep for Prep, a nonprofit organization that places minority children in elite private schools, who quit to teach at a low-performing public school on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Boland had seen movies "in which heroic teachers reach into the lives of at-risk adolescents and make a difference," writes John Leland of the Times. "Mr. Boland believed he could be one of them," but soon quit teaching and returned to Prep for Prep. Boland wrote a book about his experience, “The Battle for Room 314: My Year of Hope and Despair in a New York City High School.
TC’s doctoral program in Movement Sciences & Education/Kinesiology, in the College’s Department of Biobehavioral Sciences, has tied for fourth in the rankings of 52 programs nationally by the National Academy of Kinesiology (NAK) for the period 2010-2014.
The study, by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center and Teachers College, Columbia University, applies the latest computational methodologies to nationally representative data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System.
A new, comprehensive study from Teachers College, Columbia University, finds that Massive Online Open Classrooms, or MOOCs, so far are not meeting their goals of broadening access to education, enhancing providers' brand name and visibility, or providing a cost-effective way of improving educational outcomes.
Temple Grandin, the champion of autism rights and humane treatment of animals, will address one of three master's degree convocation ceremonies of Teachers College, Columbia University, on Tuesday, May 20th at 10 a.m. The Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts III, co-founder and chair of the Abyssinian Development Corp., will address the master’s convocation, also on May 20th at 2 p.m. The Nobel laureate and science educator Carl Weiman will speak at the College's doctoral hooding ceremony on May 21 at 2 p.m.; and Sonia Nieto, an expert in multicultural education, will speak at a master's convocation ceremony on Monday, May 19 at 2 p.m. All four convocations will take place at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan.
Announcement of four medalists and speakers at the 2014 convocations of Teachers College, Columbia University.
"Resistance Training for the Prevention and Treatment of Chronic Disease," by Joseph T. Ciccolo and William J. Kraemer, eds., explains the benefits of work with weights, elastic bands or the body's own weight in preventing and treating disease.
A thickening of parts of the brain cortex associated with regular meditation or other spiritual or religious practice could be the reason those activities guard against depression – particularly in people who are predisposed to the disease, according to new research led by Lisa Miller, professor and director of Clinical Psychology and director of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute at Teachers College, Columbia University. Miller and colleagues studied 130 subjects and found that those who highly valued spirituality showed thicker portions of brain cortices that may protect against depression -- especially in those at high risk for the disease.
Presentations at by Teachers College, Columbia University faculty at this year's American Educational Research Association, held this week in New York City, will address a range of topics, including economic investment in education, urban science education, community colleges, the use of technology in education, student attitudes towards physical education.
the world's largest annual gathering of education scholars will focus on equity and access to education, touching on issues that include gender, ethnicity, economics, disability, urbanization, privatization and peace education, from Azerbaijan to Zanzibar.
The National Early Childhood Accountability Task Force today released its final report and recommendations for developing a comprehensive assessment system to improve the performance of early education programs. Over the next eighteen months, the Council of Chief State School Officers, with funding from The Pew Charitable Trusts, will use the Task Force's findings to help states document and strengthen preschool program performance.
In his new book, "Rock "˜n' Roll Wisdom: What Psychologically Astute Lyrics Teach About Life and Love," Barry Farber, a Professor of Psychology and Education at Columbia University's Teachers College, analyzes rock lyrics for their psychological truths.
On the heels of the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and as the school year begins, Teachers College will launch a new curriculum package based on Spike Lee's HBO documentary, "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts."
The Campaign for Educational Equity, based at Teachers College, Columbia University, has denounced today's decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court in the school diversity cases, Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education (Louisville, KY.) and Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District.
Teachers College report says nation could save $45 billion each year by investing in school interventions aimed at reducing dropouts. Biggest savings would come in minority student populations.
A new study finds that while American teachers know more about theories of teaching, Chinese teachers can do the math. In a comparison of third-grade mathematics teachers in the US and China, researchers found that while American teachers were more knowledgeable about general educational theories and classroom skills, Chinese teachers had stronger knowledge of the subject matter they were teaching.
The Teachers College Community College Research Center (CCRC), the leading independent authority on the nation's 1,200 community colleges, has released Defending the Community College Equity Agenda, the most in-depth look at the challenges confronting community colleges.
A new study has found that African-American women experience the longest diagnostic, treatment and clinical delay of breast cancer treatment. This helps explain why African-American women have higher death rates from breast cancer, compared to white women "“ even though white women have the highest incidence of breast cancer.
Teachers College, Columbia University, offers two experts whose work includes the study of bereavement in parents who lose children to a traumatic death, resilience of people who have experienced life trauma, and post-traumatic stress disorder in children.
Teachers College Professor and others to use complex systems theory to unravel ongoing destructive behavior patterns
The Teachers College Community College Research Center (CCRC) has been chosen by the U.S. Department of Education to house a new National Research and Development Center on Postsecondary Education. Under the sponsorship of the federal Institute for Education Sciences, CCRC will partner with MDRC, a nonprofit, nonpartisan social policy research organization.
Susan H. Fuhrman, a leading authority on school reform and an early analyst of the state-level school standards movement, has been named the 10th president of Teachers College, Columbia University. The former NYC public school teacher brought enhanced national stature to University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education.
Chair of the 9/11 Commission Thomas Kean, Congressman Charles Rangel, author David Halberstam and sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer among those to address Teachers College, master's graduates On May 16.
Faculty and graduate students of Teachers College, Columbia University are among the approximately 14,000 education researchers at the 87th Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in San Francisco, California, April 7 to April 11, 2006.
An 18-Year study tracking the academic and social outcomes of low birth weight children found that early education programs for low birth weight children (2001- 2500 grams) in the first 3 years of life produced positive outcomes through age 18, according to newly published findings.
A new analysis reports that there are no academic advantages for voucher recipients in Cleveland. The Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring program is the second oldest voucher program in the U.S., but it has not received much attention from researchers.
George Bonanno, Associate Professor of Psychology and Education, has spent his career exploring emotional responses to tragedy"”from bereavement in response to the death of a close family member to resilience in a traumatic situation.
Jerome Bruner among presenters at National Academy of Education 2005 Annual Meeting, October 21 and 22 at Teachers College, Columbia University; Bruner to be honored in a reception at the Park Central Hotel, October 21.
Leading economists, social scientists and others will discuss the price our nation pays for inadequate education and offer some solutions at a symposium held at Columbia University. Congressman Charles Rangel to deliver opening address, Michael Rebell to bring symposium findings and recommendations straight to lawmakers.
Most analyses of the privatization of education fail to account for the complex nature of schooling. New initiatives are cast in the simple terminology of private versus public, allowing ideologues to sway public opinion with rhetoric instead of evidence.
Sharon Lynn Kagan, Ed.D., a visionary leader for improving the care and education of young children, will be recognized for her outstanding contributions to American education on Thursday, July 14, in Denver.
People who have proven the most personally resilient after experiencing crises such as the attacks on the World Trade Center are more likely to be those who, in day-to-day interactions, are difficult to get along with.
Benoit Mandelbrot, who demonstrated the importance of fractals in both mathematics and nature, will speak at Teachers College, Columbia University, on how virtual manipulatives (which he also pioneered) can be used to incorporate fractal theory into the K-12 math curriculum.
This year's Convocation at Teachers College will include a line-up of honorees who together have made enormous contributions to closing the gap in opportunity and achievement between America's more privileged students and their poorer, chiefly non-white peers.
Teachers College, Columbia University experts are available to respond to questions regarding school violence, in light of the recent school shootings in Minnesota.
A new study titled, "Free Speech and Free-exercise of Religion in California Charter Schools," by J. Shelton Baxter, examines the potential legal problems that may result from the current separation of church and state.
The Teachers College National Center for Children and Families helps six developing nations define education, health and social standards for what children should know and be able to do during the years from birth to age five.
A new study suggests that for-profit charter schools are replicating some aspects of both the size of public schools and the centralized top-down, decision-making of the public school system.
A study that will look at the efficacy of a new treatment for children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy, those who have normal use of one arm and impaired use of the other, will take place at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Charles and Jane Cahn, friends of Teachers College, are establishing a New York City Principals Fellowship Program, beginning in the summer of 2003, which will work with a cohort of 25 outstanding principals from New York City, each of whom will be responsible for mentoring one less experienced principal.
In a rare event that will bear witness to the nation's long struggle for racial equality in society and in the classroom, Teachers College, Columbia University will honor several important leaders who played crucial roles in the American civil rights movement at its 2002 Master's Convocation. Coretta Scott King, the Brown family, Congressman John Lewis, and David Levering Lewis will all speak at the ceremony and will each receive the Teachers College Medal for Distinguished Service to Education.
Two Teachers College professors, both Associate Professors of Social Studies and Education, examine what shapes current practices in secondary-level social studies classrooms in New York City, especially in those institutions characterized as "restructured."
Arthur Levine, President of Teachers College, Columbia University comments on education initiative.
A doctoral student at Teachers College, Columbia University in Curriculum and Teaching with a concentration in learning disabilities, and a mother of a 13 year-old girl, joined forces to write an article that won the Walter M. Sindlinger Writing Award. In research done on the quality of collaboration between parents and professionals.
Teachers College spent 25 years in Afghanistan working under the United States Foreign Aid Program, to help the Afghans build a modern education system using a program called The Afghan Project, said the Head of Special Collections at Teachers College.
In light of the Senate's overwhelming approval of a bill that will extend the federal government's role in public education, the President and faculty members of Teachers College, Columbia University, have issued the following statements.
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