March

March 2019 (19 Articles)

• Spotlighting the College Guidance Crisis

  Personal Statement, about teens providing college guidance, will air at Academic Festival. The director and two featured students will speak

• Broadening a Fruitful Partnership

  A generous new gift from the Lemann Foundation brings TC researchers to Brazil

• Civic Education: Confronting Hatred and Threats to Democracy Conference — Thursday, March 28

• Still Giving Back

  An endowed scholarship honors two lives devoted to the TC community

• Education’s New Ground Zero

  Why big national donors are muscling in on school board elections

• Academic Festival 2019 Will Make “A Personal Statement”

  Themed to “flourishing,” the Festival will screen a documentary about kids helping classmates make it to college

• Honoring the Memory of Pearl Rock Kane

  Attend a memorial; leave a remembrance; read about her life

• Their “Superpower” is Opening Doors

  A week of thank-yous to TC’s faculty

• Responding to Terrorist Attacks against Muslim Worshippers in New Zealand

  Friday, March 15, 2019

• Grammys, and All that Jazz: Two TC alums are among the 2018 honorees

• The Importance of Deeper Noticing: Leveraging contrasts to reveal engineering activity’s “underlying principles”

• The Making of a (Black, Female) Science Teacher: Felicia Mensah chronicles one student’s journey

• Affirming Black Girls’ Humanity: Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz blogs in Education Week about the huge disparity in school suspension

• Sorely Tested

  TC’s Madhabi Chatterji offers a “consumer’s guide” to prevent a potential new wave of misguided education assessment outcomes

• Sarita Brown, Rosie Phillips Davis, Michelle Fine and Barbara Morgan to Speak at TC’s 2019 Convocation

• Opinion Piece by Amy Stuart Wells Urges White Parents to Consider Diverse Schools

• Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Aaron Pallas wonders why New York City hasn’t entirely let go of its failed Renewal Schools program

• NCREST Report: NYC K-3 reading programs could have system-wide impact but need greater coordination

• Support for the Future, Inspired by Passion for the Past

  As a TC student, Trustee Sue Ann Weinberg fell in love with exploring the history of education. Now she’s enabling others to do the same.