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Fuhrman Leads Panel on Education Standards at Forum to Advise Obama and Congress

Fuhrman Leads Panel on Education Standards at Forum to Advise Obama and CongressTC President Susan Fuhrman moderated one of six panels at a recent public forum conducted by the National Academy of Education (NAEd) at which researchers and policymakers presented recommendations for education reform to advisors for President-elect Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress.
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Real-World Lessons on Recruiting and Developing Quality Teachers
Real-World Lessons on Recruiting and Developing Quality Teachers

New York City, whose schools chancellor, Joel Klein, is pictured here, is among five urban school districts, one state and three education entrepreneur organizations offer new insights into the effective recruitment, development and retention of top-quality teachers. These experiences are captured in a group of case studies released today by a project of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE), the nation's oldest federally funded education policy center, of which Teachers College President Susan Fuhrman is the founding director.

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TC Part of New Games for Learning Consortium
TC Part of New Games for Learning Consortium

On the premise that the way into the head of an Internet-age kid is through his electronic games, Teachers College is part of a new consortium of universities, funded by Microsoft Research, that will study the potential of computer and video games to teach math and science to middle-school children.

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Discovering Her Inner Child
Discovering Her Inner Child

TC Student Carla Engelbrecht Fisher didn't know that children's games and TV shows were her passion until she started writing for a kids' magazine.

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What We Know About School Grading

What is the precedent for grading schools? What do the grades mean? How have such efforts fared before?

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This Wednesday, November 5th, at 2 p.m., Joan Jeffri, Director of TC's Graduate Program in Arts Administration, will be a guest on "Soundcheck" (WNYC public radio. 93.9 FM and 820 AM), the arts and culture program hosted by John Schaefer. The show's focus will be on leadership in the arts.

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