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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 setting foot in the kindergarten classroom, new research finds. Read More

A common reading disorder goes undiagnosed until it becomes problematic, according to the results of five years of study by researchers at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ’s Peabody College in collaboration with the Kennedy Krieger Institute/Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Results of the study were recently published online by the National Institutes of Health. Read More

Exceptional spatial ability at age 13 predicts creative and scholarly achievements more than 30 years later, according to results from a ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University longitudinal study, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Read More

Matthew Springer In recent years, policymakers concerned with how to compensate teachers have increasingly sought to tie teacher pay to student outcomes. Market-minded education reformers have also begun to experiment by offering incentives to teachers who demonstrably add value to students’ education. But how effective are such programs? Does altering… Read More

Sun-Joo Cho Leonard Bickman was named professor of psychology, emeritus. Vera A. Stevens Chatman was named professor of human and organizational development, emerita. Chatman will also be inducted into the Academy for Women of Achievement by the YWCA of Nashville and Middle Tennessee and First Tennessee. Sun-Joo Cho, assistant professor… Read More

The American Educational ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Association (AERA) presented its 2013 Outstanding Book Award to ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University professor Christopher Loss for Between Citizens and the State: The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century (Princeton University Press, 2012) in April. Loss’s book tracks the dramatic results of the federal government’s… Read More

Donna Ford Donna Ford, professor of special education, is one of 14 university professors recognized by the Southeastern Conference for achievement in research and scholarship. The SEC announced April 10 the winners of its 2013 Faculty Achievement Awards. These annual awards honor professors from the SEC’s 14 member universities who… Read More

Marcy Singer-Gabella K-12 teachers across the country will have the opportunity to take a professional development course from ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University faculty in 2014 via the university’s partnership with leading massive online open course provider Coursera. “Teacher professional development is one of the thorniest challenges in PreK-12 education. Teaching suffers because… Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ’s Peabody College begins the 2013–14 academic year with nearly a dozen new faculty members, 400 new master’s degree or Ed.D. students, and 35 new Ph.D. students—not to mention our usual complement of highly qualified undergraduates. We are excited! Our enthusiasm is also prompted by the establishment of a new… Read More

New inventions should not have to be useful to merit a patent, says ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ professor Sean B. Seymore. Read More

The present housing crisis has disrupted the residential stability of families, which is adversely affecting many children’s educational development, according to researchers at Peabody College. Read More

Department of Human and Organizational Development Sarah VanHooser Suiter (Ph.D., ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ, 2009), associate professor of the practice of human and organizational development, previously with Centerstone ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Institute Allison Patten McGuire (Ph.D., ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ, 2005), lecturer in human and organizational development Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations Angela Boatman (Ed.D., Harvard, 2012)… Read More

In March, Peabody College was named the top graduate school of education in the country for the fifth consecutive year by U.S. & News World Report. Peabody bested programs at Johns Hopkins University (No. 2) and Harvard (No. 3) for the top spot, in addition to having its programs in… Read More

Bright-colored products and brands do more than just draw attention. They allow people to signal a personal identity that aligns them with elite athletes, explains ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ marketing professor Jennifer Escalas. Read More

Law school faculties are not changing with the times, and a ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Law School professor says it may be time to look at hiring practices. Read More

The Class of 2012 is accustomed to leading the way. As freshmen, they became the first class to live at The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons. As seniors, they broke a ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ record at the time by giving back to ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ at a rate of 48 percent through the… Read More

Recent advances in robotics technology make it possible to create prosthetics that can duplicate the natural movement of human legs which promises to dramatically improve the mobility of lower-limb amputees. Read More

High-quality preschool is an effective way to reduce social problems associated with poverty because it teaches children the psychological skills they need to succeed as adults, according to a ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ professor who studies the economics of human development. Read More

Tricking algae’s biological clock to remain in its daytime setting can dramatically boost the amount of commercially valuable compounds that these simple marine plants can produce when they are grown in constant light. 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