Educational equity - a moral imperative for the 21st century.
Fuhrman to Serve as President of National Academy of Education
Susan Fuhrman has been elected the next President of the National Academy of Education (NAEd), a post she will hold while continuing to serve as President of Teachers College.Fuhrman, currently NAEd Board Member and Secretary/Treasurer, will hold the title of the organization's President-elect until October 2009. At that time she will begin a four-year term as President, succeeding Lorrie A. Shepard, Dean of the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
On top of the smoldering Picaya Volcano in Antigua, Guatemala, my friend Jeannie Park and I are standing just feet away from slow-moving but radioactive-red molten lava. Our guide has told us that it is safe -- the volcano drips lava in slow, predictable streams down the mountain -- but the heat and sulfurous stench make it a struggle to stand even this close. Still, I stretch my six-foot walking stick out and poke the lava, smiling like a kid at the sheer joy of this unique experience -- and stepping away quickly when the tip catches fire...
Ricco Wright, the senate president, is not shy about voicing criticisms. "Student concerns at TC are often not addressed properly or at all," he says. "But so long as we push the envelope and remain consistent and persistent, we can affect change."
In September, 2008, the New York Department of Education (DOE) issued its second year of letter grades for elementary and middle schools. Test your knowledge about these school progress report cards with the following quiz written by TC Professor Celia Oyler.
"Today, the shame of our cities isn't bubonic plague; it's ignorance. In our urban areas, only one child in five is proficient in reading. On international tests, we rank behind the Czech Republic and Latvia; our high school graduation rate barely makes the top 20 worldwide," writes Newark Mayor and TC Trustee Corey Booker in a LA Times Op-ed.
25th Annual Observing and Assessing the Preschool Learner Conference -
Friday November 7 and Saturday 8, 2008
Register Now!
http://www.tc.edu/ceoi/Preschool
Join us for a three day series on The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Signature Program: Helping People Change From the Inside Out. Visit 107 Zankel Hall for more info.
Enticing programs, courses and workshops for Fall 2008 and Spring 2009. Stop by 107 Zankel Hall for more information.
Walkout is the stirring true story of
the Chicano students of East LA,
who in 1968 staged several
dramatic walkouts in their high
schools to protest academic
prejudice and dire school
conditions. Discussion will follow
film.
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