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.
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