SECURITY NOTICE: Armed robbery off campus
On Sunday, Jan. 22, at 8:01 p.m., Metro Nashville Police requested the assistance of Vanderbilt University Police regarding an armed robbery at the Jack-in-the-Box… Read More
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Teacher compensation ‘incredibly inefficient’
Teacher salaries are largely set by schedules which are neither performance-related nor market-driven and have significant consequences on school staffing and workforce quality, new research… Read More
Not so different after all
Ellen Goldring New research from the National Center on School Choice reveals little difference among school leaders across public, private and choice… Read More
New partner for national center
Fort Worth Independent School District is the latest partner in a national center at Peabody that aims to identify programs, practices, processes and policies that… Read More
One Magnolia Circle
The Peabody College building that houses the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, the Department of Special Education and the Susan Gray School has received… Read More
Awards and Honors
Bickman Chatman Cho Erickson Ford Hughes… Read More
New Faculty
Jason Grissom Carrie A. Kortegast Christine Quinn Trank Carrie Masten Kristopher Preacher Erik Carter The Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations welcomed three new faculty… Read More
Wyatt Center highlights students’ summer internship experiences
Avi Richman (left) and Hada Flores (right, speaking) with Xiu Cravens, associate dean of international affairs, at a September poster event at… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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,… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
Read About It
School Choice and School Improvement (2011, Harvard Education Press) edited by Mark Behrends,… Read More
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
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