August

August 2020 (35 Articles)

• Schools Have Failed Children of Color During the Pandemic

  Speaking at TC’s orientation for new students, alumnus and former Education Secretary John King decries the lack of an overarching strategy

• Sharing Perspectives on Inequity

  Five TC faculty experts discuss ways to eradicate ‘disparities that disproportionately affect so many’

• New Student Orientation 2020

  A comprehensive virtual experience will include a special welcome program featuring TC faculty and alumni experts in a community discussion on inequality

• Robert Piemonte, Champion of Nursing Education, Dies at 85

• Repurposing Stethoscopes to Help Speech Pathologists Navigate Social Distance

  Aided by TC’s Cate Crowley, a Nigerian surgeon overcomes one of the field’s biggest challenges

• New College Appointments

  Wednesday, August 26, 2020

• 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.

• Educating the Public to Make Informed Decisions About COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake

  A new study led by TC’s Charles Basch highlights the need for better videos that attract lay viewers

• Hidden Figure

  The late TC alumna Eileen Glover Whitlock was a Black, single mom who didn’t brag about her job

• TC Adds New Faculty in the Fields of Arts Administration, Education Policy and Intellectual Disabilities/Autism

• 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

• Emergency Medicine Doctor Dimitri Papanagnou Uses Adult Learning to Combat the Uncertainty in His Field

  His Rx: A curriculum to help students and practitioners cope with the element of surprise

• How the Left Can Use Diversity to Cancel ‘Cancel Culture’

  In The Hill, Peter Coleman argues for a bigger tent among progressives

• Marie L. Miville is named TC’s Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs

  A multiculturalist with an openness to diverse contributions, she is tasked with fostering a climate in which all faculty can thrive

• Campus Life During COVID-19

  Tuesday, August 18, 2020

• Removing Racial Bias

  It starts with rewriting biased histories, Christopher Emdin tells NBC

• New Title IX Update, Policy and Procedures

  Friday, August 14, 2020

• Providing Career Development for Alumni

  TC Next is teaming up with TC’s Office of Alumni Relations to help graduates, too

• ‘Career Services’ Gets a Makeover

  Earning an advanced degree is tough. Earning a living is tougher. An office called TC NEXT is changing how graduate schools offer help

• Déjà Vu in the Balkans?

  American moves in Kosovo help Putin and threaten the region and beyond, warns TC’s Amra Sabic-El-Rayess

• 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

• Black Lives Matter Movement Inspires Community Art

• Leadership in Crisis

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

• Speaking Up

  She lived in a country silenced by oppression. Now Erika Levy helps kids with speech disorders use “a big mouth and strong voice” — an approach that shapes her online teaching.

• Updates for Fall 2020

  Monday, August 10, 2020

• A Call for “Maker” Fellows at TC, focused on “Cultural Making”

• Helping Students Model Their Own Theories

  With a $2 million NSF grant, TC’s Paulo Blikstein hopes to turn kids into investigators

• “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

• “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

• 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

• Dialogue, Knowledge, Flexibility

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