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Education psychology was born with Edward Lee Thorndike's arrival at TC in 1899. More than a century later, psychology is among TC's most compelling stories of multidisciplinary collaboration. Read more...
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Preventing High School Dropouts More Than Pays for Itself
President Obama's proposal to make high school attendance mandatory until age 18 is a step in the right direction, TC's Henry M. Levin and Cecilia E. Rouse at Princeton write in the New York Times, but it wouldn't be enough to meaningfully reduce the dropout rate. Research shows that some of the most promising approaches need to start much earlier -- at preschool age, and they will return two to four times their cost.
Oyler, Young Take Their Kidney Donation Story to ABC.com
On the network's website, John Young, a doctoral student who received a kidney from Professor Celia Oyler, who barely knew him, stresses the need for live organ donations.
The Good Ideas Keep Coming
TC's Provost's Investment Fund continues to fund innovative new projects
On NY1's Inside City Hall, TC's Michael Rebell Says State Still Delinquent in Court-Ordered Payments to Public Schools
The Director of the Campaign for Educational Equity told Inside City Hall's Errol Lewis that children have a Constitutional right to a good education.
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How Do School Peers Influence Student Educational Outcomes? Theory and Evidence From Economics and Other Social Sciences
This study describes and compares theories from multiple disciplines about how peers (classmates) influence one another. It then compares the empirical predictions of the theories with empirical evidence about peer influences on student achievement, draws tentative conclusions about which theories are most consistent with the evidence, and proposes a new hybrid theory, group-based contagion, that seems most consistent with the evidence.
Adaptive Educational Technologies - Call for Proposals and Letters of Inquiry
The editors of the Teachers College Record announce a new project on adaptive educational technologies.
NSSE Yearbooks for 2012
The editors of the Teachers College Record are pleased to announce the NSSE Yearbooks for 2012.
Where Has All the Education Gone?
This commentary catalogues the striking absence of education from the 2011 Republican primary debates. In the eight GOP debates so far this year, the term “education” or “educational” has been invoked just 64 times—a number dwarfed by terms like “Reagan” (82 times), “illegal” (109 times), “Obamacare” (125 times), and the number “9” (382 times). Yet despite its absence from the national limelight, the problem of education reform remains as exigent as ever.
Schools and Inequality: A Multilevel Analysis of Coleman's Equality of Educational Opportunity Data
Four decades after the pathbreaking Coleman report, researchers are still working to address its primary message: that school social composition and resources are not important for understanding and addressing educational inequality. Using the original Equality of Educational Opportunity data, this study applied a two-level hierarchical linear model to partition the variation in ninth-grade students' verbal achievement into its within- and between-school components and to measure the associations among school-level social composition, resources, teacher characteristics, and peer characteristics and achievement. We estimated that 40% of the achievement variance was between schools, whereas Coleman and colleagues had originally estimated that only 8.5%-18% lay between schools. Explanatory analyses suggested that the racial/ethnic and social class composition of a student's school was over 1 3/4 times more important than a student's individual race/ethnicity or social class for understanding educational outcomes. Further, within-school Black-White achievement gaps and social class differences were explained in part by curricular differentiation and teachers' preferences toward middle-class students. These findings are contrasted with those from a set of traditional ordinary least squares regression models and the past conclusions drawn from the Coleman report.
The Penn State and Syracuse Scandals: Are We Serious about a Solution?
This commentary suggests a systemic solution to the pernicious problem of big-time college basketball and football.
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