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Preschool alone is not the silver bullet to end poverty or close achievement gaps. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Humphrey Fellows toured Oasis Center, attended met Mayor Megan Barry at Veterans Day parade. Read More

The annual educator survey shares new insights on how Tennessee teachers feel about their work as educators. Read More

Peabody faculty and graduate students will present on the topics of value-added, teacher effectiveness, minorities in STEM, connected learning, disabilities and more. Read More

Student and teacher mobility rates have improved since the ASD takeover, researchers say. Read More

A new Vanderbilt study examined a national pay-for-performance program in Texas. Read More

President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit East Tennessee this week to talk about ways to increase college access for Americans. Read More

Vanderbilt experts from a variety of fields are available to help explain issues surrounding Nashville's transformation into the latest “it” city. Read More

The commonly held notion that the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 has eroded teacher job satisfaction and undermined job retention is off the mark, according to new Vanderbilt research. Read More

Experts from Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of education and human development are available to discuss issues related to the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act in 2014. Read More

Allowing principals to involuntarily transfer teachers within a district resulted in more productive teachers replacing lower performing teachers in mostly disadvantaged schools. Read More

A $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will enable a team of U.S. and Chinese researchers to identify instructional supports that lead to higher levels of mathematics achievement. Read More

Teachers and their observers viewed Tennessee’s teacher evaluation process more positively in 2013 than in 2012, according to a broad-based independent survey by the Tennessee Consortium on Research, Evaluation and Development at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of education and human development. Read More

(iStock) Why are some high schools better than others at boosting achievement among traditionally underserved students? A new report from the National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schoolsfinds that student ownership and responsibility for academic success were key factors. Marisa Cannata (Vanderbilt) “The idea is to… Read More

Large urban school districts may need to adopt new strategies to draw prospective teachers to the most disadvantaged and geographically isolated schools, according to research from Vanderbilt University to be published in an upcoming issue of the American Education Research Journal. Read More

The State of the Art in Value-Added Measures of Teacher Performance: Taking Stock of What We Know and Don't Know Read More

Peabody experts are available to talk to media regarding the bill known as No Child Left Behind. Read More

Kindergarten teachers report spending much of their math instructional time teaching students basic counting skills and how to recognize geometric shapes—skills the students have already mastered before ever setting foot in the kindergarten classroom, new research finds. Read More

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) will present its 2013 Outstanding Book Award to Vanderbilt University professor Christopher Loss for "Between Citizens and the State: The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century." Read More

In his new book, The End of Exceptionalism in American Education, Jeffrey Henig traces the roots of the shift in school governance. Once the domain of local and state school boards, decisions about schools and schooling have begun to emerge in every level and branch of government. In this Peabody College colloquium, Henig, professor of political science and education at Columbia University, reflects on the erosion of the “special status” of education decision-making over the past 50 years. Read More