Education

Award-winning novelist and short story writer Nancy Reisman will teach at Vanderbilt University beginning this fall, as a master‘s program in creative writing begins to take shape at the university. Read More

Vanderbilt Kennedy Center director Pat Levitt has been awarded the 2005 Research Champion Award by the Autism Society of America (ASA). Read More

Ninety students, faculty and interns studying or working in London this summer were accounted for and unharmed on Thursday after attacks on the city‘s public transportation system. Read More

The Vanderbilt Learning Sciences Institute has been awarded a prestigious $1.5 million, three-year grant from The Wallace Foundation to develop a tool to assess the performance of education leaders in the nation‘s K-12 public schools. Read More

Pre-kindergarten teachers from across Tennessee will spend June 26-July 1 on the campus of Peabody College at Vanderbilt University learning the latest techniques to help children benefit as much as possible from pre-kindergarten. Read More

Proposed new rules designed to bring the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in line with President Bush‘s No Child Left Behind education initiative will be discussed Friday, June 17, during public meetings at Peabody College at Vanderbilt University. Read More

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development will be the beneficiary of this year‘s annual Waddell & Reed Financial Services Charity Golf Tournament on June 17. This will be the third year for Waddell & Reed to support the Kennedy Center in its efforts to raise awareness. The event will take place at the Vanderbilt Legends Golf Club in Franklin. Read More

Reaching out to children with autism and their families is what the Dan Marino Foundation is all about. The foundation recently expanded its impact through a gift of $100,000 to the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development. The gift, the first major donation the foundation has made outside of its home base of South Florida, will create Dan Marino Foundation Fellowships and Dan Marino Foundation Discovery Grants and will support the center‘s outreach programs. Read More

Vanderbilt University‘s Peabody College of education and human development presented its Distinguished Alumnus Award to Arthur Jerry Benson, dean of James Madison University‘s College of Integrated Science and Technology (CISAT), during commencement, Friday, May 13. Read More

NASHVILLE, Tenn.óImogene Forte, who devoted her career to improving education as a teacher, school administrator and successful businesswoman, died May 8. She was 79. Read More

Vanderbilt University special education researchers Steve Graham and Karen Harris were recently awarded the 2005 Council for Exceptional Children Special Education Research Award at that organization‘s national convention April 6-9 in Baltimore, Md. Read More

Journalists are invited to a special screening May 11 of a new PBS documentary highlighting the problems of youth who age out of the foster care system. Read More

Learning to read is a struggle for one in five children. The Vanderbilt Kennedy Reading Clinic is currently accepting applications for two summer sessions. The first session will be June 6-30, and the second session will be July 11-Aug. 4. Read More

Public reaction to news such as the recent studies showing America‘s elementary and secondary schools‘ students do not know math, science and other subjects as well as their counterparts in other nations is predictable. Read More

Richard Davidson, a psychologist who studies adults and young children who have or are at risk for emotional disorders, autism and other developmental disorders, will speak at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development on Thursday, April 21, at 4 p.m. Read More

Vanderbilt University professors Lynn Fuchs and Doug Fuchs are the recipients of the Special Education Research Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2005 Distinguished Research Award. Read More

Vanderbilt Law School maintained its No. 17 ranking in the nation for the fifth consecutive year, while Peabody College saw seven of its programs ranked in the top 10 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 third straight year. Read More

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that profoundly affects the lives of thousands of children and adults and their families. Susan Folstein, a distinguished psychiatrist and geneticist known for her research on autism, will speak at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development on Thursday, March 31, at 4 p.m. Read More

A federal education official, state education commissioners and academic researchers will come together at Vanderbilt University March 8 and 9 to discuss how to apply current educational research to K-12 classrooms to improve teaching and meet the requirements of No Child Left Behind. Read More

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development has received a $100,000 grant to expand the Vanderbilt Kennedy Reading Clinic and Behavioral Analysis Clinic to serve more families who might not otherwise be able to afford their state-of-the-art services. Read More