Teaching And Learning

Read about faculty, staff and student awards, appointments and achievements. Read More

Congressman Jim Cooper visited with Metro Nashville Public School students at Vanderbilt's School for Science and Math on Nov. 12. Read More

The National Association for Gifted Children has honored Tamra Stambaugh with its Early Leader Award, given to a person who has made significant contributions in leadership and service to the field of gifted education and who is in the first 10 years of his or her career. Read More

Jeannette Mancilla-Martinez's research focuses on students with low language and literacy skills, particularly students from low-income families, immigrant children and learners in the language minority. Read More

The National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools at Vanderbilt Peabody College will host its second national conference at the Music City Center. Read More

A coherent vision and consistent implementation is needed to bolster the power of pre-K. Read More

A panel discussion Sept. 24 delved into the challenges Tennessee faces in "scaling up" quality pre-k. Read More

A panel discussion will continue the discourse on prekindergarten issues facing policymakers. Read More

A faculty panel will engage dialogue on Confederate symbolism and free speech. Read More

Black faculty members are expected to be “entertaining” when presenting academic research, according to a new study that traces modern day racial microagressions to past objectification of blacks. Read More

The award honors highly accomplished women working in science, technology, engineering or mathematics who have made a positive impact on the trajectories of other women thinking about or newly embarking on STEM careers. Read More

Donna Y. Ford discusses a new report that challenges the long-held notion that minorities are overrepresented in special education. Read More

Scholars from across the country presented research insights on issues spanning the educational pipeline, from pre-K to Ph.D. Read More

Educators representing independent schools across the country gathered for an NAIS summit at Vanderbilt May 19-20. Read More

A sixth-grade class from Meigs Academic Magnet Middle School recently spent a day with Peabody researchers at the Nashville Public Library participating in an instructional program developed at Vanderbilt called “Telling, Mapping and Listening to Nashville: Public History and Geography of the New South.” Read More

Peabody College professors Rogers Hall and Ebony McGee were honored by the American Educational Research Association on April 17. Read More

Vanderbilt awarded Founder’s Medals to its top scholars at Commencement, May 8. Read More

Low expectations, peer pressure, lack of role models and lack of opportunity to pursue advanced study keep black males who are good at math out of STEM fields when they grow up, writes Ebony O. McGee in The Conversation. Read More

Vanderbilt's Richard Lehrer and Leona Schauble, frequent research collaborators, analyze the responsiveness of teaching practices to students’ ways of thinking. Read More

Sen. Steven Dickerson, Rep. John Ray Clemmons and the Tennessee Department of Education's Paul Fleming will discuss teacher preparation and development. Read More