Education

For the fourth year in a row, Vanderbilt University ranked among the top 20 national universities in the U.S. News & World Report annual Best Colleges rankings. Read More

The fifth annual Vanderbilt Roads Scholars Tour rolls out on Wednesday, Aug. 16, taking Chancellor Gordon Gee and about 50 faculty, senior administrators, staff and student leaders to Middle and East Tennessee. Initiated in 2002, also with a trip to East Tennessee, the annual tour is designed to welcome new faculty and to familiarize them and others in Vanderbilt community with the university's ties and partnerships in the region. Read More

Vanderbilt University's chancellor and nearly 50 faculty and staff will load up on a bus August 16 and hit the road for destinations eastward with the university's fifth annual Roads Scholars Tour. Read More

Each Saturday this summer, a dusty vacant lot on a city street in North Nashville is transformed into a vibrant oasis of colors, scents and sounds. Read More

The Golden Globe Award-winning television show Lost will be used as a springboard for learning concepts about cultural studies in a new communications studies course at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Nashville's Franklin Hamilton Hazlehurst has joined William Faulkner, David Bowie, Jackson Pollack and other luminaries in L'Ordre des Artes et des Lettres, an Order of France recognizing significant contributions to the arts and literature. Read More

The Tennessee High School Press Association is transferring its archives of awards, records and student achievement to Vanderbilt University after spending the last 60 years under the authority of the University of Tennessee's College of Communication. Read More

Children who stutter often face greater challenges managing their behavior and emotions than other children, researchers have found, offering new insight into how to help these children in a more holistic way. Read More

President George W. Bush announced June 15 that he will nominate Camilla P. Benbow to the National Science Board, an independent body that oversees the National Science Foundation. Benbow is Patricia and Rodes Hart Dean of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College. Read More

Rich Milner, assistant professor of education at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of education and human development, has been honored with an Early Career Contribution Award from the American Educational Research Association. The award, presented annually by the association's Committee on Scholars of Color in Education, recognizes a scholar who is within the first decade of his or her career following receipt of the doctoral degree. Read More

Your toddler can sing along with The Wiggles and knows Big Bird's face as well as she knows her own, but are those hours spent watching children's videos really helping her learn? New research indicates that parents should choose videos with high interactive content if they want their children to be educated as well as entertained by their time in front of the tube. Read More

Camilla P. Benbow, Patricia and Rodes Hart Dean of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt's Peabody College, has been appointed vice chairwoman of a national panel that will advise President Bush and Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings on the teaching and learning of mathematics, Spellings announced May 15. Read More

Vanderbilt's Peabody College of education and human development was ranked 5th in the nation for the second consecutive year by U.S. News & World Report in its annual ranking of the leading graduate and professional schools. Peabody's Special Education program was ranked first in the nation for the fourth straight year, and, overall, the school saw seven of its programs ranked in the top 10. Read More

Henry Petroski, the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University, will speak on "The Paradox of Design: Success through Failure" on Wednesday, April 12, at Vanderbilt University in the final presentation of the 2005-06 Chancellor's Lecture Series. Read More

Students with extraordinary scores on the SAT at age 12 go on to achieve exceptional life success into their 30s, researchers have found. Read More

Vanderbilt University encourages active journalists to apply to attend its 2007 media fellowship, "Meth Rescue: Meth's Effects on Children, Families and the Foster Care System," April 24-27, 2007, in Nashville, Tenn. Read More

It is election time again. Governor Bredesen and those seeking to replace him have begun to campaign. Seats in both houses of the General Assembly also are up for grabs. No issue is as important as education for Tennessee's long-run well being. Yet, it is difficult to elbow other urgencies aside and place our schools and colleges front and center. This should change. Read More

Educators and researchers have reacted with both enthusiasm and skepticism to President Bush's State of the Union call to improve America's competitiveness in math and science. Vanderbilt education and science experts are available to discuss what it will take to stop the United States' slide towards scientific and mathematic irrelevancy on the global stage. Read More

When it comes to education reform, Tennessee needs a booster shot. Somehow, education has fallen from its once prime place on the public policy agenda. We need a mechanism that can overcome our current statewide school policy steady state and stimulate and guide local creativity. Charter schools offer such hope. Read More

Classroom-based interventions for children with emotional and behavioral disorders was the topic of a Jan. 11 Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Devleopment lecture. Read More