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October 2020 (30 Articles)

• Helping Children with Severe Cerebral Palsy Sit Up

  With a $3 million NIH grant, TC’s Andrew Gordon and mechanical engineers at Columbia are testing a robotic device

• Strengthening Child Care for Infants and Toddlers: New recommendations from TC’s National Center for Children & Families

• Reach Young Voters on Their Own Turf — TikTok, says TC’s Ioana Literat in Wired

• In Education Week, TC’s Michael Rebell Says the Pandemic Could Aid Lawsuits Seeking More Equitable School Funding

• The Maker Movement as a Means of ‘Resilience and Resistance’

  At this year’s FabLearn conference, projects ranged from making flower pots to foiling racially-biased facial recognition software

• ‘A Crisis Within a Crisis’

  TC’s Mary Mendenhall and Lena Verdeli address the pandemic’s impact on efforts to support refugee education and mental health

• Eight Million More People in the U.S. Living in Poverty: Study co-authored by TC’s Jordan Matsudaira

• Education for the Times: Alumnus Nick Stone Is Part of a Corps of Teachers Creating Nationwide Curricula

• ‘Educating Harlem,’ a Book Talk by Ansley T. Erickson and Ernest Morrell, Launches TC’s Celebration of the Harlem Renaissance

• Little Kids’ Learning is Suffering, Too, says Parenting Expert Aliza Pressman (Ph.D. ’11, M.A. ’05) — But Parents Can Help

• Rhode Island District Court Applauds but Dismisses a Suit Seeking to Establish a Federal Constitutional Right to a Civic Education

  TC’s Michael Rebell, lead counsel for the plaintiffs, says the decision provides ‘a road map’ for appeal

• Making the Case for Continuing the Case

  An interview with Michael Rebell about the prospects for an appeal in Cook v. Raimondo

• Pragmatic and Socially Conscious: A Wealth Management Webinar Features Trustee Charles Desmond and Alumna Myah Moore Irick

• New Report: Dual Enrollment Can Help Poor and Minority Students — If They Gain Access

• The Roads Not Taken? There aren’t many for aspiring researcher, administrator and teacher Catherine Cheng Stahl

• Listening to All Voices: Amanda Earl is Studying an Indigenous Language in Mexico and Helping the TC Record Expand Its Focus

• Resetting the Record

  Michelle Knight-Manuel is amplifying new voices in TC’s century-old scholarly journal

• Spirituality in Mental Health

  The Army’s Head Chaplain Headlines a Webinar Co-Led by TC’s Lisa Miller and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

• Free Markets Don’t Protect Public Health, Writes TC’s Sarah Cohodes in The New York Times. Witness COVID and Higher Ed

• Walking the Curriculum Walk: For Jacqueline Simmons, Online Course Design is a Standing Invitation to Rewrite the Script

• Rethinking Education Leadership, Policy, & Politics in Uncertain Times: A Conversation with Sonya Douglass Horsford

• A New Vision for American Education

  A book co-authored by TC’s Sonya Douglass Horsford wins a Critics’ Choice Book Award. It analyzes policies long in the making and charts a new future for school leadership

• Using Mobile Phones to Overcome School Interruptions by COVID

  The New York Times spotlights a study of a trial in Botswana co-authored by TC’s Peter Bergman

• The Unsung Suffragist: Lucy Diggs Slowe, Who Studied at Teachers College, is Remembered in The New York Times

• On World Teachers Day, A Call to Recognize and Support Those Working in Emergency Conditions

  TC’s Mary Mendenhall and co-authors spotlight an often-unpaid workforce that serves more than 75 million displaced children

• How White Supremacy in America Feels Familiar: TC’s Amra Sabic-El-Rayess in Al Jazeera

• TC’s Pam Koch in The Daily News: COVID-19 Has Exposed a Deeply Inequitable Food System in New York City, But Also Suggests Solutions

• A New Collaboration Called SURGE Brings Together Experts Across Columbia to Focus on Gun Violence

• TC Will Honor a Distinguished Group of Alumni at Its 2020 Academic Festival

• TC’s First Virtual Academic Festival Will Focus on Access, Equity and Justice for All