Peabody College

Pasi Sahlberg Charter schools, rigorous standards, merit pay and tougher curriculum – these are the ingredients of American school reform. But Finland, the top-ranked country in the world in math, science and reading, has none of these elements. In fact, their approach to reform is exactly the… Read More

Researchers at Peabody are studying how people learn new words in hopes of determining optimal interventions for children who struggle with reading. A new educational neuroscience study offers clues on reading and plasticity in the brain that could lay the foundation for more targeted investigations of what types of training… Read More

What goes around comes around. That may seem like an old saw, but for two lucky Peabody students, it is anything but trite. Read More

Monica Cox, PhD’05, is out to fill those gaps. The Peabody graduate is one of the top national researchers in the field of engineering education. Read More

It’s a hot, muggy day near 4 p.m. at a lake in Ratchaburi Province, Thailand, and a young man has been fishing for a while. He has caught eight or nine redtail catfish, none huge, when suddenly, a behemoth catches on to his tilapia bait, and he fights with it for nearly 30 minutes. Read More

For more than a dozen years, the Nashville Symphony has performed in May for the Vanderbilt community, usually on the mall at Peabody. This year’s concert on the Commons Center Lawn was held May 22. Nashville Symphony concerts on the Peabody campus became commonplace in the… Read More

James Patterson, MA’70, earned his best-selling author status writing violent crime novels filled with despicable villains and miscreants from every walk of life. Patterson’s goal these days is helping educate the next generation of teachers and encouraging children to read. Read More

Last August, Al Hurwitz, BS’42, MA’43, donated a collection of his World War II drawings to the National Marine Corps Museum in Quantico, Va. Read More

Morris Wiener, BS’53, recently sent the Peabody Reflector an article he wrote for Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education about a camping education class he took at Peabody in 1952 with R.T. DeWitt, associate professor of physical education. Read More

Samar Ali, a Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt Law School alumna, has been named international director for the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development. Ali’s role includes overseeing TNTrade as well as the ECD’s other international initiatives, including managing four international offices. Carter (Vanderbilt) Erik Carter, associate professor of… Read More

Peabody's Pratim Sengupta has won a prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. Read More

The National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools will host a conference on effective high schools and transferring those methods to less effective schools June 10-12. Read More

Seven new members have been elected to the Vanderbilt University Alumni Association Board of Directors. Read More

This Week on VUCast, Vanderbilt’s online newscast: Tips for picking great children’s books Vandy rocketeers shoot for the stars and come out on top! A fresh feast for your body [vucastblurb]… Read More

In her nearly 30 years of teaching children's literature at Vanderbilt, Ann Neely has developed a keen sense of what makes a successful children's book. So in 2010, she started "Neely's News," a blog for children's literature enthusiasts devoted to reviewing titles both old and new. Read More

College produces good citizens, right? Yes, but not for the reasons most people think. Watch video of Christopher P. Loss’s talk about the role of higher education in defining changing meanings of democratic citizenship in the 20th century, and explain why coordinated efforts to use education to produce good citizens… Read More

Top scholars from Vanderbilt University’s undergraduate and professional schools are being honored with Founder’s Medals during Commencement on Friday, May 11. Read More

Clinical and developmental psychologist Donald J. Stedman received Peabody's Distinguished Alumnus Award during Commencement ceremonies on Friday, May 11. Read More

Peabody's Teaching and Learning in Urban Schools program graduates its first cohort of students. Read More

Peabody professor Kimberly Bess received a statewide honor for her research in one of Nashville's most underprivileged communities. Read More