Educational equity - a moral imperative for the 21st century.
New York's Regents Chancellor and Education Commissioner Will Speak at TC
David Steiner, the new Commissioner of Education for New York State, and TC alumna Merryl Tisch, Chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents, will present their vision for statewide education at Teachers College's Milbank Chapel on November 30th. To register for live Webcast, visit www.tc.edu/kossoff
In its pathbreaking Abbott v. Burke decision in 1990, the New Jersey Supreme Court laid the groundwork for providing extra state resources for 32 poor, urban school districts, dubbed the Abbott districts. Last May, following two decades of legal and legislative adjustments, the court allowed New Jersey to remove the Abbott designation, saying that, except for special cases like preschool and construction funding, poorer districts no longer needed the state's help in providing educational resources equal to those provided by wealthier communities.
The Macy Gallery's "Conversations Across Cultures" symposium this weekend will include lectures, panels, discussions and demonstrations about new ways to approach art.
Led by TC's Amy Stuart Wells, the first comprehensive study of the nation's eight remaining inter-district school desegregation programs - which were expressly created to enable disadvantaged, black and Latino students cross school district boundary lines and attend affluent, predominantly white suburban public schools - has found that these programs help close black-white and Latino-white achievement gaps, improve racial attitudes and lead to long-term mobility and further education for the students of color who participate.
In a letter to the New York Times published November 9, Celia Oyler, associate professor of education in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching, says "there are major flaws" in using state achievement test scores to evaluate students teachers.
The Music Dept. presents SPIRIT
Improv Ensemble TC Resident
Improv Ensemble on Thursday,
December 10, 2009 from 7:30:00
PM to 9:30:00 PM at Milbank
Chapel. For more info, contact Bert
Konowitz at 516-946-8296.
Teachers College Career Services presents "What Can I Do With a Masters in Psychology Panel". This event will take place Wednesday, December 2, 2009 from 5:30-7:00pm in 150 Horace Mann. Panelists will include alumni from the MA psychology programs.
From Turf Cottage to the Cover of
Time: The Dramatic Life of Holger
Cahill, is a fresh new documentary
about the life of Sveinn Kristjan
Bjarnarson, aka Holger Cahill, who
emigrated from Iceland to New York
at the age of 27 to begin a new life.
TC Annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner
November 26, 2009
12pm-3pm
Grace Dodge Cafeteria
Tickets Available in 128 Zankel.
$20/Adults; $10/Children; Free for Children under 5 years old
As part of TC's 2009 International Education Week, Students in Health is screening the documentary ? Walk to Beautiful?which tells the stories of five Ethiopian women who suffer from childbirth injuries and embark on a journey to reclaim life.
Cross Cultural Conversations in the
Arts -Bridging Discourses.
Exhibition: Nov 16-25.
Reception: Fri, Nov 20, 4-7pm.
Curators: Judith M. Burton and Olga
Hubard
The Cahn Fellows Program presents EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY PANEL AND FAIR Test and Debate the Latest Technological Tools on Wednesday, December 02, 2009 from 5:00:00 PM to 7:30:00 PM at Teachers College. For more info, contact Robin Walker at 212-678-8203.
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