Author: Joan Brasher
Jessica Cantlon to deliver educational neuroscience talk April 11
Apr. 10, 2019—“Math and Logic in Monkeys, Children and Remote Cultures,” will take place Thursday, April 11 at Hobbs Hall.
Vanderbilt faculty featured at AERA annual meeting
Mar. 27, 2019—Vanderbilt education researchers will present their work at the American Educational Research Association’s annual meeting in Toronto April 5–9.
Vanderbilt’s nursing school shines in ‘U.S. News’ rankings
Mar. 12, 2019—Vanderbilt continues to earn high marks in the "U.S. News & World Report" best graduate schools rankings.
Tennessee Educator Survey launches statewide
Mar. 7, 2019—This year’s survey, open from March 5 to April 19, 2019, includes topics such as educator evaluations, school climate and professional learning.
Researcher shares largest neuroimaging dataset on math development
Mar. 5, 2019—Vanderbilt neuroscientist James R. Booth is making available the largest known neuroimaging dataset on math development. His goal is to support the work of other researchers working to understand how arithmetic skills develop in childhood.
Cultural responsiveness is key to classroom management
Feb. 26, 2019—A new book by H. Richard Milner IV is a practical guide for teachers serving the needs of a wide array of learners
Vanderbilt choral director to make Carnegie Hall debut
Feb. 13, 2019—Associate Professor of Choral Studies Tucker Biddlecombe will make his Carnegie Hall conducting debut on Sunday, Feb. 17, helming Morten Lauridsen’s modern-day classic "Lux Aeterna." The production will include singers from the Blair Children’s Chorus program, specifically the Young Men’s Chorus, who will perform with choristers from five states accompanied by the New England Symphonic Ensemble.
Long before #MeToo, female artists were calling out sexual violence
Feb. 11, 2019—Social media has brought sexual assault into the public eye, but bearing witness to sexual violence in popular culture didn’t begin with the invention of tweets and posts, according to Vanderbilt art history professor Vivien Green Fryd, who explores the topic in her new book.
Hinton, unlawfully imprisoned for 30 years, to speak at Vanderbilt Feb. 19
Feb. 5, 2019—Author and prison reform advocate Anthony Ray Hinton, who spent 30 years on death row in Alabama as an innocent man, will speak at Vanderbilt on Feb. 19.
In Tennessee, principal quality is not distributed equally across schools
Jan. 31, 2019—A new research brief from the Tennessee Education Research Alliance finds that principal quality varies greatly from school to school in Tennessee and effective principals are not distributed equally in schools across the state.
Wendland Cook Program in Religion and Justice launches at Vanderbilt Divinity School
Jan. 28, 2019—A new program that will examine economic and ecological justice through the lens of theological and religious reflection has been launched at Vanderbilt University Divinity School.
Labels like ‘Asian fail’ and ‘Black genius’ are no joke for STEM students of color: report
Jan. 14, 2019—Vanderbilt professor Ebony O. McGee studied the collegiate experiences and academic and career decisions of 61 Black, Latinx and Asian advanced undergraduate STEM college students.