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September 2006

September 29, 2006
Nashville City Paper—An overwhelming majority of gifted and well-performing black students are not reaching their fullest academic potential for fear of being labeled "acting white," according to a study that emerged from the Peabody College at Vanderbilt University. Donna Ford, Betts Chair of Education and Human Development for Peabody College of education and human development, and Gilman Whiting, senior lecturer in African American & Diaspora Studies, conducted the study.

WTN radio interviewed one of the Wall Street Journal writers of an article earlier this week about higher education governance that featured Vanderbilt.

September 28, 2006
The Christian Science Monitor—When today's babies grow up and head to college around 2025, will they look back at 2006 as a radical turning point in American higher education? That's the hope of the Commission on the Future of Higher Education, a prestigious 19-member panel that presented its findings this month after a year of hearings and deliberations. On Tuesday, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, who had appointed the group, outlined what she would do to address the keynotes of affordability and accountability in higher education. William Doyle, assistant professor of public policy, is quoted.

September 27, 2006
The New York Times—An op-ed in response to a new report on discrimination against female scientists and engineers mentions David Lubinski, professor of psychology and human development, and Camilla Persson Benbow, Patricia and Rodes Hart Dean of Education and Human Development.

September 18, 2006
Vanderbilt Register—Peabody Career Center provides students and alumni with career services and networking opportunities, as well as information, special programs and personal career coaching.

September 15, 2006
Nashville City Paper—Gilman Whiting, senior lecturer in African American and Diaspora Studies, and Donna Ford, Betts Chair of Education and Human Development and professor of special education, are proposing to create an academic teacher training center dedicated to ameliorating the achievement gap between black students and their white counterparts. Whiting and Ford are quoted.

middleburycampus.com—Shirley Ramirez, executive vice president of the New York City-based Posse Foundation, will join the President's staff in January as the Dean of Institutional Diversity, Middlebury College announced on Thursday. Ramirez earned an undergraduate degree in human and organizational development and psychology from Vanderbilt as a member of The Posse Foundation's original Posse. The foundation works to recruit and choose student leaders from public high schools and develop them into multicultural teams called "Posses" that then attend elite colleges and universities across the country.

WTVF, Channel 5, reported on a Peabody study on performance based pay raises or bonuses for teachers.

September 11, 2006
Vanderbilt Register—The new National Center on Performance Incentives has been awarded $10 million to answer the question, Do financial incentives for teachers, administrators and schools affect student achievement?

Vanderbilt Register—Study for Mathematically Precocious Youth participant Terrance Tao has won the Fields Medal, generally considered the Nobel Prize in math.

Vanderbilt Register—Ted Hasselbring, who taught at Peabody from 1982 to 1999 in the Department of Special Education, returns to continue his research with educational software to help struggling students gain the literacy and mathematical skills they lack.

Twin Cities Pioneer Press—At the end of her historic first broadcast of "The CBS Evening News" this week, Katie Couric stepped in front of her desk to ask viewers to do a little brainstorming on her behalf. It's possible Ms. Couric was simply responding to the news of the day, just-published research showing that "active engagement" with the television may be the best way to get a viewing audience to actually learn from what they've seen on screen. The article mentions a recent study conducted at Vanderbilt that found that 2-year-olds are more likely to use the information contained in a video if they consider the person on the screen to be someone they can talk to is.

The Tennessean—A regular diet of reading will give your baby an excellent start on life. Catherine McTamaney, lecturer in the department of teaching and learning, is quoted.

September 8, 2006
zwire.com—Five years after Iowa attempted to become the first state in the nation with performance-based pay for teachers, the state's attempt to base teacher salaries on performance rather than seniority is being constructed again, with new studies and new pilot projects. James Guthrie, professor of public policy and education, is quoted.