Year: 2012

  • Hanging of the Green at the Wyatt Center

    Hanging of the Green at the Wyatt Center

    James Hogge (right), associate dean and professor, emeritus, leads students in Peabody’s annual Hanging of the Green at the Wyatt Center on December 1. Read More

    Jan 23, 2012

  • Seventh year for ELLE collaboration

    Seventh year for ELLE collaboration

      Guoming Long receives a high five from a Susan Gray School student during a tour of the school for ELLE participants as Gao Guangtang watches. A delegation of Chinese educators visited Vanderbilt University in October and November to learn the latest in U.S. education policy and… Read More

    Jan 23, 2012

  • Dean Benbow visits the White House

    Dean Benbow visits the White House

    On Monday, Sept. 26, when First Lady Michelle Obama hosted an event at the White House to announce a new program designed to make life easier for women in research careers, Peabody Dean Camilla Benbow was in the audience. Benbow had been invited in her capacity as a member of… Read More

    Jan 23, 2012

  • Lipsey wins Earl Sutherland Prize

    Lipsey wins Earl Sutherland Prize

    Mark Lipsey, director of the Peabody Research Institute (center), receives the Earl Sutherland Prize for Achievement in Research at the fall faculty assembly from Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos (left) and David Weintraub, chair of the Faculty Senate. Mark Lipsey was awarded the Earl Sutherland Prize for Achievement… Read More

    Jan 23, 2012

  • Winter 2012 Staff

    Winter 2012 Staff

    Illustration by Sara Tyson Visit Peabody College’s website at peabody.vanderbilt.edu Bonnie Arant Ertelt, Editor Donna Pritchett, Art Director Michael Smeltzer, Designer Nelson Bryan, Class Notes Editor Contributors: Kurt Brobeck, Brent Meredith, Lisa Robbins, David Salisbury, Jennifer Wetzel Camilla Persson Benbow, Patricia and Rodes Hart Dean… Read More

    Jan 23, 2012

  • In-state tuition and undocumented immigrants

    In-state tuition and undocumented immigrants

    New research from Peabody finds ideology and partisanship do not play a significant role in whether a state considers extending in-state college tuition to undocumented immigrants in a study now published in an American Journal of Education article. Over the last decade 12 states have passed bills… Read More

    Jan 23, 2012

  • Early motor training and social development

    Early motor training and social development

      In a new study published in the journal Developmental Science, researchers from Peabody and the Kennedy Krieger Institute found that early motor experiences can shape infants’ preference for objects and faces. In the photo below, taken from video of project participants, an infant using “sticky mittens”… Read More

    Jan 23, 2012

  • Analysis of mortality among infants with Down syndrome

    Analysis of mortality among infants with Down syndrome

    An analysis of the amount, timing and causes of infant mortality among newborns with Down syndrome is the focus of new research by Vanderbilt Kennedy Center investigators Robert Hodapp and Richard Urbano and recent Peabody graduate and Kennedy Center trainee Samantha Goldman. The findings, reported in the Journal of Intellectual… Read More

    Jan 23, 2012

  • The first group of graduates from Vanderbilt’s Next Steps program

    The first group of graduates from Vanderbilt’s Next Steps program

    The first group of graduates from Vanderbilt’s Next Steps program (with thanks to supporter Linda Brooks and the Tennessee Council on Developmental Disabilities) crossed the rotunda stage at Peabody’s Wyatt Center on Dec. 8. The two-year certification program is designed for students with intellectual disabilities, providing individualized… Read More

    Jan 23, 2012

  • Read About It

    Read About It

    School Choice and School Improvement (2011, Harvard Education Press) edited by Mark Behrends, Marisa Cannata, senior research associate, and Ellen Goldring, Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Education Policy and Leadership, brings together a collection of papers that… Read More

    Jan 23, 2012

  • From Research to Policy Change

    From Research to Policy Change

    A professor at Peabody once said in class that research is advocacy just as much as handing out a pamphlet is advocacy. On May 26, 2011, we both saw our research turned into advocacy on a scale that few graduate student researchers ever get to experience. Read More

    Jan 23, 2012

  • Sophisticated Talk

    Sophisticated Talk

    New research from Peabody finds that preschool teachers’ use of sophisticated vocabulary and analytic talk about books, combined with early support for literacy in the home, can predict fourth-grade reading comprehension and word recognition. Read More

    Jan 23, 2012

  • From the Dean

    From the Dean

    Whether in economics, politics or global affairs, we have all been struggling to make sense of a world that no longer feels very stable. Read More

    Jan 23, 2012

  • Speaker of the House

    Speaker of the House

    Beth Halteman Harwell, one of the most powerful and politically connected women in the state of Tennessee, began her political profession in the classroom. Read More

    Jan 23, 2012

  • Planet Peabody

    Planet Peabody

    It was a wonderful late fall day at Planet Peabody when this photo was taken. Our photography staff often sees the world from unique angles, and this day was no different. Their vision brings to mind any number of metaphors for Peabody’s role in the world of… Read More

    Jan 23, 2012

  • Coaching Legend

    Coaching Legend

    In the history of collegiate football, only a handful of names are considered to be among the best ever. Read More

    Jan 23, 2012

  • Picture this: Success!

    Picture this: Success!

    Educators know that when many people are on board to help teach students, success is the most likely result. Read More

    Jan 23, 2012

  • Readers Write

    Readers Write

    The Virtue in Virtuality This is exciting and inspiring stuff! I applaud your work! One comment regarding the quote “the most effective instructional technologies are the ones that require the fewest changes in behavior on the part of the teachers and the learners” [quoted by Andy van Shaack on pages… Read More

    Jan 23, 2012

  • Hubert Humphrey Fellows arrive

    Hubert Humphrey Fellows arrive

    Ten Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows are at Peabody for the 2011-12 academic year. Front row, from left: Sonia Dias, Brazil; Sobia Alam, Pakistan; Julieta Sandoya, Ecuador; Aye Myint Than Htay, Myanmar; Cathy Arendse, South Africa; back row: Margaret Li Yin, Mauritius; Davry Jean, Côte d’Ivoire; Alonso Silva,… Read More

    Jan 23, 2012

  • The Embattled Teacher

    The Embattled Teacher

    Public education has always been an arena in which the nation’s policy crises have played themselves out. Most pressing social and economic issues—segregation, immigration, unioniza-tion and union-busting, fiscal collapses, crime, drug abuse, unemployment—end up affecting schools and education policy. Read More

    Jan 23, 2012