January

January 2019 (32 Articles)

• TC’s George Bonanno Is Receiving Psychology’s Prestigious Cattell Award

• Civically Engaged, in Their Own Spaces

  An analysis of youth response to Trump’s election suggests the need to reshape civic education

• A “First Act of Awareness”

  TC hosts a major conference on antisemitism

• Op-Ed: Strategic Inquiry Raised Performance in Struggling High Schools

• Important announcement: New VP for Finance and Administration

  Thursday, January 24, 2019

• Been There, Done That – and That – and That, Too: JoAnne Williams, TC’s new VP for Finance & Administration

• TC Alumnus Joseph N. Hankin, 67: America's longest-serving community college president

• Up to the Challenge: Alumna Katrina McCombs, Camden’s new schools superintendent, is featured in New Jersey Spotlight

• Sad News: The passing of Distinguished Alumnus Joseph Hankin

  Friday, January 18, 2019

• The Other O’Keeffe

  She also attended TC - and she could handle a paintbrush, too

• Op-Ed by Amy Stuart Wells: "Implicit Racial Biases Shape Choices of Educators, Parents, Home Buyers"

• TC’s Maria Paula Ghiso Will Receive the David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English

• Op-ed on Success of Community Schools Cites TC’s Public Matters Survey

• Five years after Common Core, a mysterious spike in failure rate among NY high school students

  Potential signs of long-lasting problems for low-achieving students

• Unconventional Wisdom: Embrace the Data!

• Unconventional Wisdom: Against the Grain

  Memo to patients with celiac disease and their doctors.

• Unconventional Wisdom: What’s on America’s Mind

  Who are today's education activists?

• Preventing Youth Suicide

  There’s much to be learned by starting at home

• Class Acts

  Breaking the Sound Barrier

• Future Leaders: TC Student Voices

  Lakeisha’s Lesson

• From Your Alumni Association President

  Opt In! Coming soon: An online alumni directory. Share with the class!

• In Memoriam

• In People They Trust

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

• Connecting Beyond Differences

  Amy Fabrikant (M.A. ’02) writes parables for a complicated new world

• Helping Others Find Answers

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

• On Board

  Welcoming Charles Desmond; Jay Urwitz returns; emeritus honors for E. John Rosenwald Jr.

• Working Together

  Taking TC’s impact to scale

• Short Takes... on big news at the College

• Sad News: The passing of Harold Noah

  Monday, January 7, 2019

• Schools of Choice? It can depend on who’s choosing – and how costly they may be to educate, a new study finds

• Driven

  Why Sam Totten Risks His Life to Truck Food to People in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains

• At Home in the Music of the World

  For doctoral student and pianist SiYi Fang, music has been a way to cross boundaries and bring people together