January

January 2021 (26 Articles)

• TC’s Thomas Brock Is Named to a National Science Foundation Advisory Committee

• Forget about Unity — End the Polarization: In a Newsweek interview, TC’s Coleman urges Biden to change gears

• COVID-19 Vaccine information

  Tuesday, January 26, 2021

• 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 APA Will Honor TC’s Kimberly Noble for Her Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest

  Recognition for a career devoted to documenting poverty’s impact on the brain

• A Primer on Early Child Education and Care: Advice to the Biden administration from TC’s Sharon Lynn Kagan and Caitlin Dermody

• Spring 2021 Campus Access Reminder

  Friday, January 22, 2021

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

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

• School Integration Isn’t Dead – and Why That Matters

  Alumna Michelle Burris argues that the need to ‘get it right’ has never been greater

• Creating New Tools for a Time of Tough Decisions

  Citi’s Chief Innovation Officer Vanessa Colella (M.A. ’96) is an evangelist for ‘artificial enlightenment’

• ‘Declare Your Intentions’: Peter Coleman urges the Biden administration to tackle polarization head on

• A Spiritual Plea to the Biden Administration: ‘Every Child Needs a Great School’

• Moving Ahead: An agenda for the Biden administration and the 117th Congress

  Unsolicited advice from the Teachers College community

• MLK, In Deed: A message from TC’s Christopher Emdin

• On the Front Lines in California: Nursing Education student Michael Isaacs believes COVID policymakers need to learn from their mistakes

• Helping Teachers and Children Understand Their Own Behavior: Case studies from TC’s School-Based Mental Health Collaboration

• Innovating Against Isolation

  TC’s student EdTech showcase yields tools for overcoming social distance

• Using Education to Counter ‘Islamophobia’: A two-part series by TC students seeks to deepen understanding without ‘othering’

• Welcome back

  Monday, January 11, 2021

• ‘An Absolute Disgrace That Was Entirely Predictable’

  Reactions to the mob violence in Washington and thoughts on the way forward

• Two Views on Dropping Standardized Test Results for Admission to NYC Middle Schools

• Message on yesterday’s events

  Thursday, January 7, 2021

• On NPR, Sonali Rajan Calls a Record Year for Gun Deaths a Window onto Deeper Issues

• A Nonprofit Led by Sayu Bhojwani (Ph.D. ’14) Helped Candidates with Immigrant Backgrounds Win in 2020

• TC’s Revamped Arts Administration Program: Preparing changemakers as diverse as the society they serve

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