Educational equity - a moral imperative for the 21st century.
Teachers College Will Be Closed on Wednesday Because of Weather Conditions
Teachers College will be closed all day tomorrow -- Wednesday, February 10th -- because of weather conditions. The College will be open on Thursday for business as usual, and we will only send out further email and Web communications if those plans change.
The annual Equity Symposium being conducted at TC today and tomorrow is unveiling research showing that $100 billion in federal funds going to states for school systems is not advancing equity for poor students. To read a New York Times story on research being presented at the symposium, see http://nyti.ms/a0G6KE. To read an op-ed in The Huffington Post by TC's Michael Rebell on the unconstitutionality of current school budget cuts, see http://bit.ly/9nEoRy.
A blend of TC's technology and language expertise could help non-native English speaking young writers put pen to paper
TC's second annual Academic Festival tops the a long list of big events at the College coming up in the next couple of months
TC Education Technology Specialist Judith Cramer has introduced faculty and students to Comic Life and other (cheap) technologies
TC and Columbia volunteers are helping high school students ponder the meaning of it all
Super Saturday Workshop on February 13
Macy Art Gallery
What MORE is going on in this
picture? An Inter-Generational,
Cross-Community (Catholic and
Protestant) Storytelling and Visual
Arts Project from Northern Ireland.
On View: Feb 8-19; Reception:
Friday, Feb 12, 5-8pm;
212.678.3360
Brown Bag Lunch
Measuring Pragmatic
Knowledge at Multiple
Proficiency Levels in the
Context of Speaking
Dr. Kirby Grabowski
Teachers College, Columbia
University
Feb 25, 2010 (Thu)
12:30 pm
305 Russell
Info:
E-mail Adrienne at
WML2102@columbia.edu
As educators, our work is based on
strong convictions about what
Thomas Murray has called "The
Worth of a Child." But is this high
value of children reflected in the
behavior of individuals, and in the
policies and priorities of American
our society?
"Leading Adult Learning"
"Professing to Learn"
Demonstrating Makerbot is Chris
"Widget" DiMauro, a research
assistant for the Social Game Club
at the Polytechnic Institute of New
York University.
Teachers College Career Services, monthly poster for February from Feb 1st to Feb 14th
Lesley Bartlett's new book, The
Word and the World: The Cultural
Politics of Literacy in Brazil is a
provocative and insightful
examination of Freire? theory of
power and pedagogy with
implications for literacy studies and
broader social justice ed.
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