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, unioniza-tion and union-busting, fiscal collapses, crime, drug abuse, unemployment—end up affecting schools and education policy.
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A professor at Peabody once said in class that research is advocacy just as much as handing out a pamphlet is advocacy. On May 26, 2011, we both saw our research turned into advocacy on a scale that few graduate student researchers ever get to experience.
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New research from Peabody finds that preschool teachers’ use of sophisticated vocabulary and analytic talk about books, combined with early support for literacy in the home, can predict fourth-grade reading comprehension and word recognition.
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From the Dean
Whether in economics, politics or global affairs, we have all been struggling to make sense of a world that no longer feels very stable.
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Speaker of the House
Beth Halteman Harwell, one of the most powerful and politically connected women in the state of Tennessee, began her political profession in the classroom.
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Coaching Legend
In the history of collegiate football, only a handful of names are considered to be among the best ever.
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Picture this: Success!
Educators know that when many people are on board to help teach students, success is the most likely result.
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