Fall 2006, Ideas in Action, by Kurt BrobeckTwo Vanderbilt faculty members have created the Vanderbilt University Achievement Gap Project to ameliorate the academic problems of minority students in the nation's K-12 schools.
Fall 2006, Frye Gaillard, Peabody ReflectorThe controversies inherent in the "Monkey Trial" of 1925 still affect the teaching of biological sciences today.
Fall 2006, Ideas in ActionAn education assessment company founded at Peabody has been purchased by a major producer of digital video-based learning products.
Fall 2006, Kurt Brobeck, Ideas in ActionSpecial education professor Carolyn Hughes is piloting a mentoring program in local high-poverty high schools to prevent students from dropping out.
Q&A with James Guthrie, executive director of the new center.