http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news News at Teachers College, Columbia University en-us Copyright 2013 Teachers College, Columbia University webmaster@tc.columbia.eduacquaro@exchange.tc.columbia.edu https://www.tc.columbia.edu/images/tclogo.gif http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=8572 5/22/2012 TC 2012 Doctoral Convocation http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=8565 5/21/2012 TCs 2012 graduates are exhorted to create a better world by thinking differently and implementing their ideas http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=8559 5/16/2012 Following her address at TC masters convocation, Kanter told Brian Lehrer, WNYC, that the nation needs 1 million new teachers in the next decade. http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=8547 5/14/2012 Sonam Tobgye came to TC to help Bhutan modernize its education system. Hes discovered that theres plenty worth preserving, as well http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=8551 5/14/2012 A gallery of TCs 2012 graduates http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=8544 5/14/2012 Brittany Lynk has been outward bound since she was a kid, but family and community remain her touchstones http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=8550 5/14/2012 Theresa Perrottas experience in the Colleges new XMA program could came at the right moment in her career -- and in the evolution of her company http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=8548 5/14/2012 Stephen Numme believes school segregation lives on through the designation special ed. He speaks from experience http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=8543 5/14/2012 Community-based youth organizations can be safe spaces for emotional and social development. Bianca Baldridge believes they should be taken seriously as a focus of academic discourse http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=8545 5/14/2012 Gillian Esquivia-Cohen has studied the use of biblio-therapy for traumatized immigrant children http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=8546 5/14/2012 Maria Hataier is charged with shaping the TC experience. Now shes been through it http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=8549 5/14/2012 Through her research, Thora Eidsdottir has gotten the big picture on teen obesity in Iceland. Now she wants to shrink it http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=8455 4/12/2012 Tyson, the Peoples Astrophysicist, Under Secretary of Education Kanter, and the cultural historian Heath will address TC graduates at ceremonies on May 15 and 16. http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=8016 5/30/2011 Theyre moving on, but theyre taking a lot of TC with them. A cross-section of this years graduates -- with more to come -- from programs ranging from speech and language pathology to counseling and clinical psychology. http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=8074 5/21/2011 The Colleges 2011 graduates are urged to pursue both excellence and equity http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=8049 5/15/2011 Childrens educational television made its mark on Corey Chapman. Now hes ready to make his mark on it http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=8018 5/15/2011 Franziska Stutz is following a plan -- but not too carefully http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=8077 5/15/2011 T. Nicole Washington wants to translate research for educators and policymakers. http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=8027 5/15/2011 Basem Hassan wants to use art to precipitate societal change. http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=8019 5/15/2011 Whether in addressing the U.S. nursing shortage or poverty in his native Philippines, Medel Paguirigan focuses on helping vulnerable populations http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=8081 5/15/2011 Mexican immigrant teens are often trapped in dead-end jobs without hope for education. Doctoral graduate Isabel Martinez has explored ways to help http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=8021 5/15/2011 Lenore Karo began higher education at age 51. She shows no signs of stopping. http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=8020 5/15/2011 Doctoral student and award-winning principal Anael Alston believes excellence is a quality that can be attained http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=8090 5/15/2011 Ian Blood started out teaching English in Africa. Hes ended up exploring the power of computerized test scoring to diagnose learning issues. http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=8017 5/15/2011 Maria Hinksons career change to speech and language pathology had some initial doubters. She never wavered http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=7969 5/4/2011 At Convocation on May 17th and 18th, TC honored Andres Alonso, CEO of Baltimore City Schools; the journalist and author Bob Herbert; and Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommon Professor of Education at Stanford University. http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=7518 5/25/2010 From HIV/AIDS education in India to teaching children to read in Harlem, TCs 2010 masters and doctoral graduates have been there and done it. Here are some of their stories, with links to videotaped interviews -- and more to come soon. http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=7486 5/20/2010 Its often called the Unfinished Cathedral -- which made the massive Cathedral of St. John the Divine an apt setting for TCs 2010 class of masters and doctorate graduates to embark this past week into the highly volatile climate of modern American education and public policy. a href=http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/jill-biden-teaching-calling-serve-10740872ABC aired video highlights of Bidens speech/a. http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=7407 3/29/2010 Spike Lee, Jill Biden, Gail Collins and Richard Mills will speak at the Colleges masters and doctoral ceremonies in May. http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=7120 7/25/2009 At TCs 2009 convocation ceremonies, graduates are challenged to take action amid challenging times. Follow this link to see video and more! Commencement 2009 Video and More! http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=6966 4/27/2009 Newark Mayor Cory Booker, former Barnard College President Judith Shapiro, Teachers College Professor Emeritus Antoinette Gentile and New York Governor David Paterson will receive the Colleges Medal for Distinguished Service at its 2009 Convocation exercises in May. http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=6621 6/4/2008 TCs 2008 graduates -- at both the masters and doctoral level -- are a diverse and diversely talented group. http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=6613 5/23/2008 If there is a single thread that links the full breadth of our activities at TC, it is the notion of serving as education partners to the world -- locally, nationally and internationally.br /br / With those words, TC President Susan Fuhrman established partnership as the theme for the Colleges 2008 commencement exercises, held over the course of two cool and rainy days on May 20th and 21st at Riverside Church. More than 1,900 masters and doctoral students, hailing from 57 nations, 38 American states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, participated in the three ceremonies. Their interests and stories were hugely diverse, Fuhrman said, but in her view, the graduates had all originally come to TC because you wanted to engage the world -- and even more important, because you wanted to change it.