September

September 2020 (22 Articles)

• 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

• A Cure for a Fractured Society: Building Bridges Among the Bridge-Building Organizations

  In a new column in The Hill, TC’s Peter T. Coleman urges support for ‘positive deviance’

• Voter Turnout 101: An Initiative Called ‘TC Votes’ is Aimed at Ensuring Precisely That Outcome

• Pop Culture: TC Alumnus Bryan Jackson has Launched an Acclaimed Podcast Series on Black Fatherhood

• Schools May Be Shut, But School Food Programs Need to Stay Open

  Their nutrition guidance can be as important as the food they provide, argues the Tisch Food Center’s Julia McCarthy in The Portland Press Herald

• Promoting Food Equity During COVID

  Cities using schools as distribution points are a model, finds a study co-authored by a Tisch Food Center researcher

• Caring for One Another

  Friday, September 18, 2020

• Alumna Sayu Bhojwani on Kamala Harris: All Things to All People

  In USA Today, praise for a nominee who signals possibility to ‘any of us who consider ourselves American’

• At a Global Summit, Educators Share Lessons from the COVID Pandemic

  A gathering led by TC’s CPET reviews strategies ranging from technology training to virtual pizza parties

• In a Times Magazine Roundtable, TC Alumnus John King Urges the Nation to Choose ‘the FDR Path’ and Invest in K-12 Education

• An Online Nutrition Course That Entices Students to the Table

  Working with TC’s Office of Digital Learning, Pam Koch reimagined her course on how to teach about food and nutrition

• Join the TC Community and Vote on Election Day 2020

  Wednesday, September 16, 2020

• A New Vice President for Development and External Affairs

  Tuesday, September 15, 2020

• Amra Sabic-El-Rayess Talks About Why She Wrote Her Memoir of Survival in 1990s Bosnia

• Coming of Age in an Age of the Unthinkable

  In Amra Sabic-El-Rayess’s memoir of genocide in Bosnia, a young girl embraces humanity as the world falls apart

• An Excerpt from ‘The Cat I Never Named’

• 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

• In an Online Course, TC Students Conduct Speech Therapy Virtually with Children in Colombia

  Small Screen, Big Mission: A professor’s humanitarian work continues with help from TC's Office of Digital Learning

• Teaching Music Online When Kids Lack Instruments and Internet Access

  As Music Manager for Washington D.C.’s schools, classically trained alumna Katy Ho Weatherly has learned to improvise during the pandemic

• Fostering Digital Citizenship in the New Normal of Online Schooling

  Why and how we must educate very young children about privacy, permanence and kindness

• Getting off to a great start for the new academic year

  Friday, September 4, 2020

• With an $880,000 IES Grant, TC’s Alex Eble Explores How Textbooks’ Messages Shape Children’s Sense of Their Own Abilities