Schools Vs. COVID

Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring: COVID’s Psychological Fallout in Schools

For many students and educators, the pandemic’s uncertainty is exacting a greater toll than the virus itself

Leadership in Crisis

Four Teachers College experts weigh the challenges of the coming school year

“The Ultimate Adaptive Challenge”

To reopen or not reopen? And how? Four TC community members who are school leaders discuss making life-or-death choices with no right answers

So How Do You Do Pre-K Online?

At TC’s Hollingworth Preschool, with imagination, patience and realistic expectations

Practical Tools for Educators in Uncertain Times: A new webinar series from Teachers College

How to Stop Students from Cheating Online? Be Interesting

A new study co-authored by TC staff member Megan Krou argues for ‘the power of motivation’

Nearly a Year In, Taking Stock of Students’ Mental Health

A TC roundtable weighs the fallout of remote schooling – and some upsides

Prompting School Psychology to Look Within: Prerna Arora challenges her field to confront its own biases in serving immigrant youth

Helping Students Deal with Lack of Structure

TC school psychology graduates on the ground

The Other Stressor: Violence Against People of Color

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

Supporting Students ‘In Vivo’: TC’s School-Based Mental Health Collaboration

TC’s Goldberg Postdoctoral Fellowships: A $2.5 million bequest is seeding a new approach to mental health and wellbeing

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

Making School a Lifeline

Principal Crystal Jones has concentrated on making her Atlanta public school “the one place that’s consistent” for children and families

Preserving the Human Interaction

As Chicago’s schools operate online, Principal Joshua Long is providing his special-needs students with one-on-one attention

Leading Essential Workers in “An Impossible Situation”

Elizabeth Bonesteel, Superintendent of Vermont’s Montpelier-Roxbury schools believes too much is being asked of educators

First Things First

In Malverne, New York, new Superintendent Lorna Lewis is focused on health and wellbeing

“In the Worst of Times, the Best of People”

As Syosset, New York’s schools grapple with uncertainty and other challenges, Superintendent Tom Rogers is heartened by his community’s spirit

Dialogue, Knowledge, Flexibility

Those are Bronx Collaborative High School Principal Brett Schneider’s watchwords for reopening this fall

“An Opportunity for New Beginnings”: Christopher Emdin foresees a new era in which students spend less time in school and learn more

Now’s Not the Moment: Resuming standardized testing amid the pandemic would be “foolhardy,” argues Aaron Pallas

The Pandemic’s School Nutrition Takeaway: All kids should eat for free – from now on

The Tisch Food Center's Julia McCarthy also flags the disproportionate impact of food insecurity on Black families

The Upside of Remote Instruction: On The Brian Lehrer Show, TC’s Christopher Emdin looks beyond technology’s limitations

Little Kids’ Learning is Suffering, Too, says Parenting Expert Aliza Pressman (Ph.D. ’11, M.A. ’05) — But Parents Can Help

Free Markets Don’t Protect Public Health, Writes TC’s Sarah Cohodes in The New York Times. Witness COVID and Higher Ed

TC’s Pam Koch in The Daily News: COVID-19 Has Exposed a Deeply Inequitable Food System in New York City, But Also Suggests Solutions

Fostering Digital Citizenship in the New Normal of Online Schooling

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

Now is the Time to Fix School Inequity with Funding

Escalating costs and dwindling budgets will hurt Black and Brown students the most, writes TC’s Michael Rebell in the New York Daily News.

Why School Integration Has Failed

TC’s Sonya Douglass Horsford adds her voice to a New York Times roundtable

Amid COVID and Racial Injustice, Teachers Matter More than Ever

They anchor young people and create safe spaces in times of crisis

The Arts and Re-Envisioning COVID-Era Schools

Using the arts to re-imagine education as distinct from schooling

Removing Racial Bias

It starts with rewriting biased histories, Christopher Emdin tells NBC

Demanding an “Independent Autopsy” of America’s Schools

At TC’s Reimagining Institute, Jamila Lyiscott calls for a focus on “toxic ideologies” that deny the genius of black and brown children

Reopening Schools Safely This Fall

“Little kids first,” argues TC’s Sarah Cohodes on theatlantic.com website

COVID-19 School Closings Present Opportunities to Make Education More Equitable, Amy Stuart Wells Writes in Education Week

NYC’s Schools Can Still Serve Everyone: TC’s Roberta Lenger Kang Says the Closings Shouldn’t Be a “Win-Lose Proposition”