Jennifer Wetzel

WAVU applications are available online or may be requested by calling (615) 322-8261 or emailing pty.peabody@vanderbilt.edu. Academically talented seventh through 10th-graders will have a chance to expand their horizons intellectually and socially at an overnight Vanderbilt program specifically designed for gifted students. Applications are being accepted for the Weekend… Read More

Noguera Pedro Noguera, the Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, will speak about the effects of economics on academic achievement from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, in the Wyatt Center Rotunda. Read More

Peabody lecture addresses economic influences on academic achievement. Read More

Wendy Kopp, founder and CEO of Teach for America, participated in a roundtable discussion with select faculty and administrators at Peabody College Jan. 18. (Anna Dulmes/Vanderbilt) Wendy Kopp, founder and CEO of Teach for America and Teach for All, spoke about her experiences improving education… Read More

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (Vanderbilt University) The Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD) recognized the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center with three awards at their annual conference in November. The VKC University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) received the association’s 2011 Council on Community Advocacy Award (COCA), nominated by… Read More

Education experts from Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of education and human development are available to talk to media regarding the much-anticipated bill that would overhaul the Elementary and Secondary Education Act – also known as No Child Left Behind. Read More

A Vanderbilt-led workshop for military health care providers could lead to more post-deployment mental health referrals. Read More

The federal government’s increasing involvement in higher education over the past 100 years has created an intimate relationship that was once virtually nonexistent. Read More

In a first-of-its-kind study, children showed significant gains in vocabulary and comprehension when parents asked them questions about the content, rather than simply parking them in front of the screen. Read More

Children learn more from television when parents interact with them similarly to book reading. Read More

Steve Graham’s career-spanning research explores the value of writing instruction Steve Graham (John Russell/Vanderbilt) It’s that time of year when children are penning their letters to Santa, careful to recount their every Christmas wish. While the biggest challenge for competent writers might be narrowing their list, a significant number… Read More

UCEA honors Peabody professor Joseph Murphy with lifetime achievement award. Read More

Students displaced by school closures experience adverse effects both on test scores and attendance—unless they are transferred to substantially higher-performing schools. Read More

Lecture addresses education reform differences between the United States and Finland, the top-ranked country in math, science and reading. Read More

(Jenny Mandeville/Vanderbilt) The Saturday Academy at Vanderbilt for the Young will resume Jan. 21, 2012, and will be held consecutive Saturdays through Feb. 25. SAVY provides a dynamic, fast-paced curriculum experience to qualifying gifted children in kindergarten and grades 1–6. SAVY participants typically test at the 95th percentile… Read More

Implementation of antibiotic stewardship tactics as part of infection reduction campaigns sees significant results. Read More

The delegation from China visited the Susan Gray School. Pictured with the students are Guoming Long (red jacket, right), and Gao Guangtang. (Joe Howell/Vanderbilt University) A delegation of Chinese educators visited Vanderbilt Oct. 24-Nov. 4 to learn the latest in U.S. education policy and experience American classrooms and techniques… Read More

A Peabody College dance troupe from the early 20th century. (Vanderbilt University) Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of education and human development celebrated its 225th anniversary last year. A new documentary on Nashville Public Television will celebrate that milestone. Paying the Debt: A History of Vanderbilt Peabody College airs… Read More

As the topic of education reform continues to dominate and preoccupy today’s educational discourse and divide a nation, it is easy to get distracted from the primary reason we send our children to school every day: to learn how to read, write, think, and speak effectively. Read More

The "Tower of Hanoi" task (Courtesy Dan Levin) “Learning by teaching,” a method in which teaching facilitates the tutor’s own understanding, may be improved when the audience is not human, new research from Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College finds. The study, based on research that suggests a person learns… Read More