2018

2018 (208 Articles)

• January (11 Articles)

  • Teachers College Paper on Transition Stress is Covered on Veterans News Website

  • A Room of Their Own

    In leading the redesign of Thompson 136, Trustee Dawn Duquès has tapped the best source guidance: TC’s students

  • Learn About the New Teaching Innovation Center

    Attend an information session in January or February on the TC-King’s College London collaboration

  • Judith Burton is Named TC’s Macy Professor of Education

  • Impact Players: Thirteen TC faculty members make the EduScholar rankings

  • Belt-Tightening Time in Nutrition Education?

    Two reports from TC’s Tisch Food Center map a changing federal and state landscape

  • TC-based Children’s Choir Performs at Hockey’s Winter Classic

  • Living with Huntington’s Disease: Exercise and Physical Activity May Help

  • Repealing the Dickey Amendment

    Gun violence will continue without federally funded research, argue TC’s Rajan and Allegrante

  • Sustainability in the Schools: It Starts with Cleaning Up the Data

  • The Courage to Ask Tough Questions

    TC doctoral student Meaghan Mobbs, who served in Afghanistan, is calling for a paradigm shift in treatment and research for veterans

• February (10 Articles)

  • A Life That Changed Many Others

    Morton Deutsch is recalled by his former student, Peter Coleman, in American Psychologist

  • Joan Gussow, TC’s Nutrition Pioneer, is Interviewed by Rootstock Radio

  • Arming Teachers “Not a Good Idea,” TC’s Lalitha Vasudevan Tells ABC.com

  • Arming Teachers: What are the Implications?

  • Speaking Out for Student Aid: TC students lend their voices to a rally in Albany

  • Gun Violence in the United States: Stemming the Tide of a Growing Social Crisis

  • TC’s Priscilla Wohlstetter Quoted in Newsweek

  • TC’s Peter Coleman and Colleagues Offer Lessons for the UN on Building Peaceful Societies

  • New Study by TC’s Sarah Cohodes Finds Promise in Some Urban Charters for Closing the Achievement Gap

  • Learning to Lead Change: The XMA Factor

    Monique Herena has learned about change leadership and human resources in settings ranging Wisconsin to Dubai. Now she’s helping TC students learn, too

• March (16 Articles)

  • $10 Million Gift Launches Landmark Teaching Fellowship

  • High Wire Act: Showcasing the digital revolution at TC

  • Lalitha Vasudevan on NPR: Anti-Gun Movement Benefits from Black Lives Matter

  • Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz Receives AERA 2018 Revolutionary Mentor Award

  • The Klingenstein Center’s Next Director: Nicole Brittingham Furlonge

  • Africa – and the Diaspora — as They’ve Never Seen It Before

  • Civic Educator Eric Liu to Deliver Kossoff Lecture at TC’s 10th Academic Festival on April 7th

  • Thomas Bailey, Education Economist and Leading Authority on America’s Community Colleges, Is Named TC’s 11th President

  • Understanding Peace to Build Peace and Understanding

    TC’s Peter T. Coleman is leading a Manhattan Project-like effort to understand how peaceful societies get and stay that way

  • Probing Spaces That Teach Wrongdoing

    AERA honors alumna Cathlin Goulding for her dissertation on a Japanese-American internment camp and its current resonance

  • Walking in Smaller Shoes: Backed by an AERA award, Tran Nguyen Templeton explores the world as child

  • TC Development Chief Suzanne M. Murphy Elected Chair of the Kingsborough Community College Foundation

  • Jelani Cobb, Helene Gayle, Eric Holder, and Walter Mischel to Speak at Convocation

  • The $4,000 Question

    Kim Noble will test whether giving cash supplements to new moms can change children’s development and brain function

  • Trending Now

    New York City principal (and TC alumna) Jacqui Getz is so stylish, someone decided to blog about her

  • TC Student Entrepreneur Asha Owens to Compete at 2018 SXSW

• April (18 Articles)

  • Digging In on Opting Out: Going deeper to understanding opposition to standardized tests

  • Students on the Cutting Edge

  • Distinguished, Accomplished and Diverse: TC’s 2018 Alumni Honorees

  • “X” Marks the Future

    Academic Festival 2018 spotlights the world at a crossroads

  • In The News: Launch of TC’s New EPIC Center featured in The Atlantic

  • TC Launches EPIC, a New Center for the Study of Failure as an Educational Tool

  • Mexico City Bulletin

    A student reports on this year’s CIES meeting, focused on “Re-Mapping Global Education”

  • All Things to All People

    Preparing teachers – and others – to meet the individual needs of those with developmental disabilities

  • Alumna Cati de los Ríos Wins Two Honors for Her Dissertation at AERA

  • David Hansen to Speak at AERA on Educational Justice

  • Maxine Greene Remains in AERA’s Spotlight; Janet Miller to deliver Egon Guba Lecture

  • Haeny Yoon, an Expert on Children’s Play, Receives AERA Emerging Scholar Award

  • “Every Teacher is a Civics Teacher”

    At Academic Festival, Eric Liu calls on educators to lead a democratic renewal

  • Launch of the Center for Innovation in Teacher Education and Development (CITED)

  • Unleashing

    A new college-wide exhibition is highlighting the concepts of TC philosopher Maxine Greene

  • Teaching in Trying Times: An April 12th conference on extracting teachable moments from civic conflict

  • TC at AERA 2018: A full listing of presentations by the Teachers College extended community

  • TC at AERA 2018: A Special Year, and Right in Our Own Back Yard

• May (21 Articles)

  • NPR Talks to Kim Noble About Study of Cash Gifts to Moms

  • “Deepen Our Understanding of the World”: At TC’s 2018 Convocation, a call for research that betters people’s lives

  • Peter Coleman: Restoring bipartisanship starts with legislators living in the same town

  • TC’s Erickson in Chalkbeat: NYC’s anti-bias training needs to include racism’s history

  • An Educator’s Gift

    Charo Uceda is broadly accomplished, but TC has brought her full circle to her childhood dream

  • Research Matters: At TC’s doctoral hooding, Susan Fuhrman and Walter Mischel stress the power of sci

  • But Enough about You – Let’s Talk About Trump

  • Optimism in the Face of Daunting Challenge

    At TC’s third master’s ceremony, graduates are urged to embrace the unexpected

  • “Change the Culture”

    Graduates at TC’s second master’s ceremony are charged with shaping a future free from inequity

  • Heavy Responsibility

    At TC’s first master’s ceremony, graduates are urged to expand opportunities for all and shore up American democracy

  • Sonali Rajan Invited to Join the Nation’s First Gun Violence Research Team

  • Widening TC’s Doors

    Alumnus William Epps, Pastor of Los Angeles’ historic Second Baptist Church, makes a generous scholarship

  • TC Mourns Karen Baldwin (Ed.D. ’03)

    A much-loved campus figure who delivered thousands of healthy babies – and dog therapy to TC’s students

  • Alumna Alexandra Connell’s Online Store and New Pop-Up Specializes in Inclusive Design

  • Back to the Future: How HR can return to being a strategic partner

  • Poverty and Children’s Brains

    The Economist details the launch of a major new study co-led by TC's Kim Noble

  • Message from TC Board Chair on Revocation of 1998 Medal Awarded to Bill Cosby

  • Professor William Gaudelli will become Dean of Lehigh University’s College of Education

  • Honoring a “First-Class Citizen”: Pearl Rock Kane receives TC’s President’s Medal of Excellence

  • TC Welcomes Admitted Students at Special Event

  • Getting Up to Speed: Doctoral student Brittany Chambers tells Forbes “30 Under 30” about challenges

• June (40 Articles)

  • Seeking a Compromise in the Information Wars

    Journalist Amanda Ripley consults TC’s Peter Coleman

  • Great Scholarship That’s Helping Budding Scholars

    A faculty licensing agreement to support TC’s students

  • First, Do No Harm

    A call to end the traumatizing separation of immigrant children from their parents

  • Response to the Separation and Detention of Migrant Children

  • They Still Have a Lot to Learn

    Business leaders increasingly influence education policy, but Americans think they’re not well-informed, a TC study finds

  • Promoting Health, the Digital Way: TC’s John Allegrante convenes a summit in Washington

  • Short Takes on Big News at the College

    TC’s Klingenstein Center Names Its Next Director

  • Paving New Ways

    The Fuhrman Era

  • As Time Goes By

    The Campaign’s impact on student support will keep growing

  • Living Up to Her Legacy

    Susan Fuhrman vowed to build on TC’s track record of innovation. She’s leaving behind a pretty considerable one of her own

  • In Memoriam: A much-loved campus therapist

  • In Their Own Words

    The Fuhrman Era

  • Student Profile: Walking in Smaller Shoes

  • Connecting the Dots: The Fuhrman Era

  • It Takes a Committee

    Among the many unsung heroes of Where the Future Comes First, the 18 members of TC’s Campaign Committee have played an especially pivotal role.

  • TC’s Campaign is one for the Books

  • Tips for Team America: Our house may be divided, but it can still stand, argues Peter Coleman

  • “X”: TC’s 10th Academic Festival spotlights the world at a cross roads

    Teachers College’s 10th Academic Festival spotlights the world at a crossroads

  • Childhood, as Children See It

    Tran Nguyen Templeton, Ed.D., Curriculum & Teaching

  • No “I” in “Team” – Only in Innovation

    They created an app to help first-generation college students

  • Joining the Brain Trust

    Ana Leon-Santos, M.A., Neuroscience & Education

  • Virtual Reality, Tangible Benefits

    C.J. Reilly III, M.A., Art & Art Education

  • In a Sacred Place

    Nathan Mullen, M.A., International Development

  • Once More, With Feeling

    Jacquelyn Briggs, M.A., Music & Music Education

  • Leonard Blackman: The De-Labeler

  • Living and Teaching Her Writerly Life

    Nour Jalloul, M.A., Curriculum & Teaching

  • Student Essay: Finding Meaning after Military Service

  • Talking the Talk

    Desiree Halpern, M.A., International & Comparative Education

  • On Board: Spotlighting the work of TC's dedicated Trustees

  • Thomas Brock Named Next Director of the Community College Research Center

  • The Burdens of Living Gluten-Free: A new study puts quality-of-life issues on the table

  • Grounded in Service, Uplifting Students: Brittany Davis

  • From Helping Students to Improving a System

    Hana Lahr, Ph.D., Education Policy

  • Finding Words for a Painful Topic

    Irene Zhang, M.A., Clinical Psychology

  • Opening Eyes to Possibilities

    Dimple Bangalore, M.A., Social-Organizational Psychology

  • Off-Road Educator

    Jacquelyn Durán, Ph.D., Sociology & Education

  • Trump and Therapy: Psychology Today blogger spotlights special journal edited by TC’s Barry

  • Teaching Schools to Use Data

  • Saying Farewell: Our Torch is in Good Hands

    TC has superb new leaders at the ready

  • A new study led by TC’s Lisa Miller pinpoints where and how the brain registers spiritual experience

• July (9 Articles)

  • Teaching Schools About Students’ Health

    A movement is slowly being born

  • Hope on Display

    A TC student brings a mural by Rohingya refugee children to NYC’s Oculus Building

  • Confessions of a Deweyan Management Consultant

    Robert Schaffer (Ed.D. ’52) on the art of helping companies help themselves

  • An Investment that Pays Off for Society

    Americans believe in higher education as a public good, a new survey finds

  • “What Will Improve Outcomes?”

    Douglas Ready leads the TC arm of the Consortium for Policy Research

  • Reimagining Education III

    This year’s summer institute on understanding race and education seeks to unite strands of a broader movement

  • Unshaken

    Scholarships have helped Ayesha Rabadi-Raol, doctoral student in Curriculum & Teaching, overcome the unthinkable

  • My First Day on the Job

    Monday, July 2, 2018

  • TC’s Eleventh President: Thomas Bailey

• August (15 Articles)

  • U.S. Student Loan Watchdog Resigns; TC Research on Loan Defaults Cited

  • TC’s Jane K. Dickinson is Named 2019 Diabetes Educator of the Year

  • “Enormous Generosity with Little Fanfare”: Teachers College mourns Trustee Emeritus John Klingenstein

    Memorial Celebration - September 17,2018 at 4pm

  • Citizenship, Arrested: How America’s schools are flunking democracy, and what to do about it

  • Message to the Community about John Klingenstein

    Monday, August 20, 2018

  • It’s Not Just the Children: How moms are affected when families are separated

  • The New TC Web: A mobile-first approach for the 21st century

  • Tax Credits Aren't Translating Into College Enrollment

  • More Than He Could Chew? Arne Duncan's memoir favors anecdote over evidence, says TC's Aaron Pallas

  • MetroFocus to Air Interview With Michael Rebell August 20

  • You Call the Tune

    Jeanne Goffi-Fynn helps kids take ownership of their voices – and their identities

  • Christian Science Monitor Visits Reimagining Education Institute

  • Community Schools: An Idea Whose Time Has Come – Again?

    Teachers College survey finds very strong support for services provided by community schools

  • BestFit Gets Even Better

    A budding start-up, born at TC, wins $100,000

  • Fordham Blog: Rebell’s New Lawsuit Will Assert the Right to an Education

• September (18 Articles)

  • Student Essay: Why teachers must look beneath the surface

    Lakeisha’s Lesson

  • At TC once more, health education legend Michael Carrera (Ed.D. ’70) is “back in alignment”

  • Giving the Gift of Racial Awareness

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

  • Teaching During Detention

    A TC center helps educators at Rikers Island

  • Interactive Learning, via the Subway

  • Practicing the Art of Listening

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

  • Fresh Perspectives: Six new additions to TC’s faculty

  • Ending the Fractions Fade-Out: Robert Siegler

  • Mourning María Torres-Guzmán and Lee Knefelkamp

    Tuesday, September 11, 2018

  • New Bio of TC alumnus John Okada Depicts the Japanese-American Experience Post-WWII

  • Which Side Are You On? A new Teachers College survey paints a portrait of today’s education activist

  • A Loving Remembrance of María Torres-Guzmán

  • Opening Doors and Bridging Worlds: Multilingual education pioneer María Torres-Guzmán, 67

  • Ensuring that Learning Happens: TC alumna Claudia Schrader will lead Kingsborough Community College

  • Joining Forces to Prevent Youth Self-Harm: Two TC psychologists lead a new multidisciplinary project

  • Embracing Her Identity

    Paola Muñoz Rojas, M.A., Anthropology & Education

  • Friends in Need

    Marie Volpe and Katie Embree are known for generous moments. This was a big one

  • A Really Thoughtful Gift

    David Hansen, Philosophy & Education professor, creates a scholarship for his students

• October (20 Articles)

  • The Professor Who Cared About Learning

    Lee Knefelkamp espoused the radical idea that college is for the students

  • Honor, Civility, Therapy

    TC’s 2018 Brantley Award recognizes four colleagues and one Labrador retriever

  • Raising Their Voices

    The TC Reading and Writing Project hosts a workshop for young activists

  • President Thomas Bailey reaffirms TC’s commitment to non-discrimination

    Monday, October 22, 2018

  • Taking the Lead on Health Policy

    Two TC doctoral students are funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

  • It’s 2018. Do We Know Who Our Children Are?

    Amy Fabrikant writes parables for a complicated new world

  • Knocking at Democracy’s Door

    Alumna Sayu Bhojwani is bringing first- and second-generation Americans into the political arena

  • TC’s Education for Persistence and Innovation Center (EPIC) Receives $3 million Gift from Yu Panglin Charitable Trust

  • What the Nation Thinks and Why

    A new opinion survey at Teachers College takes the pulse of ordinary Americans

  • Time to Change How We Think About Early Education

    International study led by TC's Sharon Lynn Kagan suggests the US could benefit from a new perspective.

  • TC’s Lalitha Vasudevan in the Washington Post

    The American tradition of caging children

  • Fighting Fake News Before It Was Trendy: TC’s Institute for Propaganda Analysis

  • Helping the Rohingya

    TC’s Global Mental Health Lab will pilot and evaluate a form of group therapy with refugees in Bangladesh

  • “The Work of Education”

    TC hosts its third annual conference on the future of anthropology and education

  • In Daily News op-ed, TC’s Rebell calls for better civics education to help unify divided nation

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

  • A Fitting Farewell

    A scholarship planned gift from the Fuhrmans

  • TC Working With NYC, Parents to Promote Sustainability in Schools

  • Talk Amongst Yourselves…Please!

    A nation promotes political dialogue, and a magazine consults TC conflict resolution expert Peter Coleman

  • The Education Activist

    Esther Cyna, M.A., History & Education

• November (16 Articles)

  • TC Cares: Providing Resources and Support

  • Taking Schools to Court

    A suit filed by TC’s Michael Rebell charges Rhode Island with providing diminished access to civic education

  • The Pathfinder

    TC’s new president has spent his career pondering how to make education enriching for all comers

  • Responding to a Most Hateful Act

    Wednesday, November 28, 2018

  • Mourning Olivia Hooker

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

  • Party in the Park: Toasting to a record year for the Annual Fund

  • The 2018 African Diaspora International Film Festival

    From Kofi Annan and Sandra Bland to Black Mexico and comedies of manners

  • Peter Coleman in the NYT on How to Handle Difficult Conversations at Thanksgiving

  • How the Future Was Won

    TC’s Campaign raised a record $345 million. Both the money – and the way it was raised – will strengthen the College in creating a better world

  • Reflections on a Home Run

    Suzanne Murphy’s call to action was: Fund Your Passion! In the following interview, she recalls how and why alumni and friends did just that

  • Helping Veterans to Get Help

    TC’s Resilience Center pilots a new form of short-term therapy

  • In People They Trust

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

  • Children's Art Exhibit at Macy Gallery Promotes Global Citizenship

  • Memory Speaks

    An iconic TC course inspires a family tale of heroism during World War II

  • “It’s All Up to Me to Learn”

    TC Zankel Fellow Shannon Allison is applying Navajo wisdom to lead change in her school community.

  • Good Vibrations

    From a buzzing wrist device to better exercise therapies, new advances in treating degenerative movement disorders

• December (14 Articles)

  • New Study: Aspects of NYC Mayor’s Embattled Renewal Schools Program are Worth Saving

    Students in Renewal high schools that were using the Strategic Inquiry program were nearly two-and-a half times more likely to be on track to graduate

  • Nourishing Others’ Careers

    A gift from the estate of Gwen Laidlaw is supporting Yara Gholmie, Ph.D., Nutrition Education

  • It’s a Natural, for the Holidays and After

    A partnership created by CulinArt is enabling TC to eat local (and healthy)

  • Soundtrack for a New Era

    TC’s musical talents were on display during inauguration week

  • Research and Practice: An Inauguration Week symposium revisits an age-old combination

  • Confronting the Elephant in the Classroom

    Kossoff Lecturer Richard Carranza takes on segregation in New York City’s schools

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  • And Speaking of the New President…

    A gallery of quotes from the people who spoke at President Bailey’s inauguration

  • The Power of “We”: Creating Pathways for all to Flourish

  • “Creating Pathways Where There Were None Before”

    by Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz

  • Writing a New Chapter

    Inaugurated as TC’s 11th President, Thomas R. Bailey calls for the College to marshal “the power of we” to create paths for all to flourish

  • A Matter of Degree

    A college diploma looms larger than ever. So do the challenges to getting one. TC is on the case.

  • Coming Together in Good Times and Trying Times

    Tuesday, December 4, 2018

  • With a Golden Ticket, Doing What He Was Meant to Do

    Abby M. O’Neill Fellow Jonathan Buckingham