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TC's Community College Research Center Gets Major Grant to Assess Strategies for Boosting Student Completion Rates
The Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College has received a three-year, $5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to carry out research to help identify the most productive investments in community colleges for the foundation's Postsecondary Success (PS) initiative.
A new report by the Center on Continuous Instructional Improvement - a Teachers College-based arm of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education, whose founding director is the College's President, Susan Fuhrman - explores the concept of learning progressions and their promise for improving science instruction in American schools to the point where all students can meet desired performance standards.
Two Teachers College faculty members, Sharon Lynn Kagan and Herbert P. Ginsburg, were part of a team of academics responsible for a National Research Council study that found that preschoolers - particularly those in low-income groups - need more and better instruction in math.
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, TC's Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child and Parent Development Education, and co-director of the National Center for Children and Families, has received an honorary degree from Northwestern University, recognizing her as one of the nation's most distinguished and influential developmental psychologists.
Kevin Jennings, a Klingenstein fellow at TC in 1994 who received a master's of arts degree in interdisciplinary studies in education, has been named Assistant Deputy Secretary in the Office of Safe & Drug Free Schools in the U.S. Department of Education. Jennings is the founder and former executive director of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), which works to make schools safe for all students, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
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