Education

Gifted students in kindergarten through eighth grade will have an opportunity to expand their academic horizons on Saturday mornings with a new program created by Vanderbilt University. Saturday Academy at Vanderbilt for the Young, or SAVY, kicks off Jan. 19. Read More

New research from Vanderbilt University shows for the first time that the brain processes aggression as a reward ñ much like sex, food and drugs ñ offering insights into our propensity to fight and our fascination with violent sports like boxing and football. Read More

Vanderbilt University's plan to improve the quality of education it offers is a bold initiative that may affect the way other colleges and universities do business, said reviewers from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools who have granted Vanderbilt reaccreditation. Read More

Experts from Vanderbilt University‘s Peabody College of education and human development are available to discuss 2007‘s top education stories and what to expect in 2008. Read More

An animated computer program created by a Vanderbilt University professor of computer science and computer engineering is being used in Nashville public school classrooms to teach science to middle school students. But the teachable agent called Betty‘s Brain does much more; it also teaches students how to learn. Read More

An op-ed by James Guthrie, professor of public policy and education, on public expectation of student performance and the harm done when this expectation is too low, as Guthrie argues it currently is in Tennessee. Read More

Subjects like physics, calculus and biology are challenging for most students, but imagine tackling these topics without being able to see the graphs and figures used to teach them. A new smartpen and paper technology that works with touch and records classroom audio aims to bring these subjects to life for blind students. Read More

The public is invited to join over 200 children and their families at the Susan Gray School‘s annual Holidays Around the World celebration Dec. 1. Read More

Watch video of an Oct. 30, 2007, panel discussion on desegregation, re-segregation, immigration in Nashville schools. Panelists included Vanderbilt education researchers Claire Smrekar and Ellen Goldring. Read More

Vanderbilt University kicks off its International Education Week events Sunday, Nov. 11. The week ñ officially celebrated this year Nov. 12-16 ñ is an annual initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education to recognize the global exchange environment between the United States and other countries. All events are free and open to the public. Read More

Vanderbilt University today announced the launch of its new channel on the wildy popular video-sharing site, YouTube. Read More

Contrary to popular belief, schools are not devoting more time and resources to students that fall just below federal standards in response to No Child Left Behind, a new study from Vanderbilt University has found. Read More

Twenty-five Chinese principals and educational administrators are in Nashville Oct. 30 - Nov. 9 as part of an ongoing exchange between Vanderbilt University‘s Peabody College, Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools and South China Normal University. Read More

A new endowed scholarship program at Vanderbilt University‘s Peabody College aims to produce the next generation of leaders in the closely watched field of educational testing and student assessment. Read More

The unique challenges and opportunities parents and teachers of gifted children face is the focus of a new lecture series sponsored by the Vanderbilt Programs for Talented Youth. Read More

Leadership Excellence, a magazine founded by well-known leadership and management consultants Ken Blanchard, Stephen R. Covey,Charles Garfield and Ken Shelton, has named Vanderbilt University to its list of the best leadership development programs for the second year in a row. Read More

Representatives from over 25 universities are convening on the Vanderbilt campus October 24-27 to discuss strategies to improve education professionals‘ training. Read More

Nonprofit organization Idealist.org/Action Without Borders and Brandeis and Vanderbilt universities are working together to address the impending leadership gap in the non-profit sector. Read More

Local school and community leaders and education researchers will look at the dynamics leading to and resulting from the racial composition of Nashville's K-12 schools Tuesday, Oct. 30, at 3:30 p.m. Read More

Vanderbilt Peabody researcher David Dickinson will travel to Brasilia, Brazil the week of Oct. 15 to share with that nation's parliament lessons learned about educating children from birth to age 3. Read More