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Opportunity Vanderbilt
Rodes Hart and Orrin Ingram are leading Vanderbilt’s Shape the Future campaign. Rodes Hart and Orrin Ingram believe in Vanderbilt. As alumni, trustees, philanthropists and visionaries, they reflect on...
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Are you connected?
Peabody alumni may be surprised to learn that the college is using new ways to stay in touch with graduates day to day, via new social media applications, such as Facebook, VUconnect, Twitter and...
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The Right Start
More than 45 years ago, Susan Gray conducted the first randomized clinical study with low-income children showing that an enriched environment could lead to gains in children’s language mastery. Her...
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Brain Change
Innovative developmental cognitive neuroscientist Bruce McCandliss, winner of a presidential early career award and principal investigator for several National Institutes of Health grants, has joined...
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From Trepidation to Triumph
I have been privileged to serve Peabody as associate dean in two decades: in the 1980s and in the first 10 years of the 21st century (actually, since 1998). Two more disparate decades would be...
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The Achievement Gap in Education
Pre-K students at Ross Elementary School in Nashville work with colors and shapes prior to leaving school for the summer break. Research suggests that students from disadvantaged schools are more...
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Jumping the Gap: Two Success Stories
The achievement gap in education is based on averages—average test scores, average family incomes, average performance based on race and ethnicity. On average, for example, black and Latino men are the...
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Is the Answer YES?
Teacher Laureen Wimbley is walking around her classroom at YES Prep Southwest, giving her sixth-grade students instructions on how to complete their science lessons. They are learning about the...
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Far Away, Distant Learning: The Rural Achievement Gap
Amid all the recent scrutiny of the achievement gap and its effect on urban minority and low-income students, another large subset of disadvantaged American students—those attending poor rural...
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A World of Hurt
It’s a gray winter day at Ross Elementary, an inner-city school in East Nashville that serves a high percentage of children who qualify for the free and reduced-priced lunch program, and pre-K teacher...
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A New Point of View
Jesse Register, director of schools for Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, during a March visit to South China Normal University. In January, a group of Chinese educators journeys to Nashville for...
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7 Great Ideas
Two hundred and twenty-five years is a long time for an institution to survive. Founded as Davidson Academy in 1785, what is now Vanderbilt’s Peabody College initially existed under various...
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Chart(er)ing a Path to Success
Jeremy Kane, MPP’06, and Kristin McGraner, EdD’08 Jeremy Kane’s emergence as a key figure in Nashville’s charter schools movement may well have taken root in seventh grade. That was the year he...
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Not Just for Profit
Shelton Quarles, BS’94, helps cut the ribbon on the renovation of Allie and Dawn Lopez’s home. Quarles’ IMPACT Foundation renovates the homes of at-risk, single-parent families in the Tampa area...
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An IRIS for the Teacher
Naomi Tyler, associate professor of the practice of special education, directs Peabody’s IRIS Center, which provides free, Web-based, instructional resources for educators and parents of special needs...
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The Virtue in Virtuality
What if a fifth grader could learn college-level physics concepts? What if the platform used to teach those concepts could be accessed very simply online through a Web browser? What if that new...
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The Embattled Teacher
Public education has always been an arena in which the nation’s policy crises have played themselves out. Most pressing social and economic issues—segregation, immigration, unionization and...
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Sophisticated Talk
Worried that using that longer word might stump your 3-year old? Worry no more. New research from Peabody finds that preschool teachers’ use of sophisticated vocabulary and analytic talk about books,...
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From Research to Policy Change
Nicole Garcia, MEd’11 (left), Community Development and Action, and Jill Robinson, Community Research and Action PhD candidate A professor at Peabody once said in class that research is advocacy just...
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James Patterson and the Patterson Scholars
Best-selling author James Patterson, MA’70 (far right), visited the Peabody campus in January, meeting nine Patterson Scholars. From left, front: Juliana Musselman, Nisha Khorasi, Sarah Kenny, Leighton...
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