Vote for Peabloggy

The clever, substantive and diverse Peabody College blog, Peabloggy, is up for an ED in ‘08 best education blog of the year award. Vote for Peabloggy! Ballot box closes May 14.

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In the whirlwind that was Friday I didn’t get a chance to shout from this virtual rooftop what you surely have heard by now: our fantastic college of education and human development, Peabody, continued its upward trajectory this year, coming in at No. 2 in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of the nation’s [...]

On the board he is

Congratulations to Vanderbilt special education prof Ted Hasselbring for being named to a six-year term on the national advisory board of the George Lucas Educational Foundation, which sponsors the cool Web site and publication Edutopia. May the force be with you, Professor Hasselbring.

Want more? Expect more

Read this op-ed by Jim Guthrie, professor of education and public policy in Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of education on human development, calling for higher expectations of Tennessee students by teachers, administrators, policy makers and parents. “Tennessee expects too little of its students. Consequently, our students learn too little. This is not opinion. This [...]

If you’re looking for the nation’s ed school peeps this week, they’re here

Representatives from over 25 U.S. education schools will be on the lovely Peabody campus this week discussing how to improve the education doctorate, or Ed.D. Peabody is a national model for how to get this program right - and differentiate it from the Ph.D., a problem that has been of concern for years in ed. [...]

Nice guys finish first after all

A new book by Peabody researcher Stephen Elliott finds that basic social skills, such as listening, following directions and just being nice, are just as important to a student’s ability to succeed as their academic instruction.
“If we increase social skills, we see commensurate increases in academic learning. That doesn’t mean that social skills make you [...]

Olympian at Peabody

Lynn Fuchs, Nicholas Hobbs Chair in Special Education and Human Development, has been tapped by President Bush to be one of the United States’ reps at the opening ceremonies of the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Shanghai, China, on Oct. 2. Congratulations, Professor Fuchs. Get the whole story.

What did you do on your summer vacation?

Matt Springer, director of the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College, will have a good answer to that question - he’s talking to state legislators from across the country today in Denver, Colo., about the latest research on the effectiveness of compensation as a tool to recruit, reward and retain teachers. Springer [...]

Ensuring Sponge Bob isn’t the only thing left in their brains at the end of summer

Some great practical tips for keeping kids engaged in something other than the antics of Sponge Bob and Patrick this summer, in this Tennessean article featuring Leona Schauble, chair of the Department of Teaching and Learning.

Want your kids to get a good education? Join the Army.

Army bases and schools are not two things one usually thinks of in the same sentence. But as Peabody researcher Claire Smrekar reported back in 2001, these schools put the average public school to shame when it comes to student achievement. Achievement gap? What achievement gap? Doesn’t really exist at these schools. Smrekar recently followed [...]