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Dean Camilla Benbow and Professor David Lubinski mentioned.http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/05/18/the_freedom_to_say_no/Components Site CreatorThe state of Virginia has 1100 adults now classified as ninth-gradershttp://www.examiner.com/a-1333454~Over_age_students_present_challenge_for_Virginia_high_schools.htmlComponents Site CreatorLineberger joins efforts of Manna Project International, a humanitarian organization formed by Vanderbilt studentshttp://www.vanderbilt.edu/myvu/news/2008/05/06/vanderbilt-students-post-graduation-plans-center-on-service.54176Components Site CreatorProfessional career spanned four decadeshttp://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x8798.xmlComponents Site CreatorTerry Grier (Ed.D., 1983) to receive awardhttp://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x8797.xmlComponents Site CreatorHarston credits mentoring and service learning experiences at Peabody with igniting a passion for helping othershttp://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/releases?id=40634Components Site CreatorProfessors praise basketball star's achievements off the courthttp://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/releases?id=40630Components Site CreatorVAL-ED, developed by Peabody researchers, hailed as a clear improvement over prior methodshttp://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x8794.xmlComponents Site CreatorTen middle school students who live in public housing will show Nashville what the world looks like through their eyes at an exhibition of their documentary photographyhttp://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/releases?id=40617Components Site CreatorEvent to be held Saturday, May 17 at LP Fieldhttp://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/releases?id=40616Components Site CreatorFifth-year teacher from J.T. 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gap between young black males and other students.http://www.vanderbilt.edu/register/articles?id=36145Components Site CreatorA new study designed to examine the benefits of a parent training intervention for improving social and communication skills in young children at risk for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is looking for children between 15 and 24 months who are at risk for ASD.http://www.vanderbilt.edu/register/articles?id=35906Components Site CreatorAn op-ed piece on the recent Supreme Court ruling, by Claire Smrekar, associate professor of education and public policy.http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/releases/2007/7/2/op-ed-how-do-you-promote-racial-diversity-without-using-raceComponents Site CreatorSpecial education pioneer Melvyn Semmel was recognized as the 2007 Peabody Distinguished Alumnus by Dean Camilla Benbow during Commencement on May 11, 2007.http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x7499.xmlComponents Site CreatorDarcy Freedman, a doctoral student in the Community Research and Action Program, is leading a combined effort to combat childhood obesity and enhance nutrition education by bringing market-fresh produce to underserved communities in the Nashville area.http://www.vanderbilt.edu/register/articles?id=35716Components Site CreatorPeabody College is hosting the Institute of Education Sciences' first summer institute on randomized trials in education settings June 17-29.http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x7484.xmlComponents Site CreatorThis summer’s institutes focus on higher education management, fundraising, charter and independent schools, human resources, and academic libraries. Attendees are coming from 32 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.http://www.vanderbilt.edu/register/articles?id=35434Components Site CreatorTeachers, counselors, and administrators at military base schools follow a model that places the schools at the center of family life and takes into account the stresses and changes affecting their students’ families. The schools maintain high academic benchmarks and are generally small in size, ensuring that no child is overlooked.http://www.vanderbilt.edu/register/articles?id=35288Components Site CreatorMaplewood High School student Travonte Davis gives credit to Vanderbilt student Megan Welsh's mentoring for helping him to achieve an eight-point improvement in his ACT scorehttp://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x7448.xmlComponents Site CreatorA new tool called the Peabody Treatment Progress Battery, or PTPB, will help deliver ongoing feedback to doctors and clinicians treating teens with mental health concerns, with a goal of enabling mid-course treatment corrections.http://www.vanderbilt.edu/register/articles?id=34849Components Site CreatorVanderbilt's Special Education doctoral program singled out as an excellent examplehttp://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x7405.xmlComponents Site CreatorVanderbilt Kennedy Center researchers are reporting that younger siblings of children with autism spectrum disorders do not perform as well on tests of social and communication development as compared with siblings of children without developmental problems.http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=5453Components Site CreatorIn a five-year federal study, researchers from the American Institutes for Research tracked the life cycle of comprehensive-school-reform (CSR) programs in hundreds of elementary and middle schools across the country. They found that CSR only works when external models are implemented faithfully and consistently for three to five years. Laura M. Desimone, assistant professor of public policy and education, who critiqued the study, is quoted.http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2007/05/16/37csr.h26.html?qs=whole+school+reformComponents Site CreatorVanderbilt University and the Texas Education Agency have teamed up to evaluate the largest performance-based incentive initiative for educators in the nationhttp://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x7384.xmlComponents Site CreatorThis Q&A between the Post and Kathleen V. Hoover-Dempsey, associate professor and chair of psychology and human development, addresses how parents should be involved in their child’s homework.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/15/AR2007041500790.htmlComponents Site CreatorEducators say that the correct level of parent involvement in children's homework depends on the child and his or her developmental stage, but that some parents are so competitive that they go overboard. Kathleen V. Hoover-Dempsey, associate professor and chair of psychology and human development, is quoted.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/15/AR2007041500778.htmlComponents Site CreatorNashville’s homeless have a dedicated advocate in Douglas Perkins, associate professor of human and organizational development, who was recently selected by Bill Purcell to facilitate the Mayor’s Taskforce to End Chronic Homelessness. Sparked by a federal initiative under the National Alliance to End Homelessness, the taskforce has been working on developing a 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness in Nashville.http://www.vanderbilt.edu/register/articles?id=16048Components Site CreatorDrs. Donna Ford and Gilman Whiting featuredhttp://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x7303.xmlComponents Site CreatorWith a five-year, $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, the newly established National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt has put together an ambitious agenda to study such teacher pay incentives in Nashville, Tenn., across the state of Texas, and in two other locations yet to be named.http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x7159.xmlComponents Site CreatorFinding the right health care for a child or loved one can leave you feeling like you need a visit to the doctor. A new study by Vanderbilt University researchers has found that the type of stress you experience may depend on the type of health care system with which you are dealing.http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x7153.xmlComponents Site CreatorPeabody College graduate student Monica Gibson is one of two US interns serving this spring.http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x7151.xmlComponents Site CreatorPreschool conversations are critical to long-term reading achievement.http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x7108.xmlComponents Site CreatorTwo 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.http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x7098.xmlComponents Site CreatorSpecial education professor Carolyn Hughes is piloting a mentoring program in local high-poverty high schools to prevent students from dropping out.http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x7095.xmlComponents Site CreatorQ&A with James Guthrie, executive director of the new center.http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x7094.xmlComponents Site CreatorCreator of Read 180 returns to Peabody College to continue research.http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x7092.xmlComponents Site CreatorResearchers have found that children who stutter often face greater challenges managing their behavior and emotions than other children, and offer new insight into how to help these children in a more holistic way.http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x7091.xmlComponents Site CreatorVanderbilt researchers have discovered that females have a significant advantage over males on timed tests and tasks.http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x7088.xmlComponents Site CreatorRich Milner, assistant professor of education, was honored in the spring with an Early Career Contribution Award from the American Educational Research Association.http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x7085.xmlComponents Site CreatorAn education assessment company founded at Peabody has been purchased by a major producer of digital video-based learning products.http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x7084.xmlComponents Site CreatorTextbook series to feature Peabody authors.http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x7082.xmlComponents Site CreatorResults of national faculty scholarly productivity index releasedhttp://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x6949.xmlComponents Site CreatorThis Peabody grad is carving her own niche in the ever-expanding online marketplace.http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x6897.xmlComponents Site CreatorThis unique interdisciplinary program is committed to social change through community-based action research.http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x6846.xmlComponents Site CreatorThe controversies inherent in the "Monkey Trial" of 1925 still affect the teaching of biological sciences today.http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x6844.xmlComponents Site CreatorWhat will be the fate of the hotly debated education doctorate?http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x6843.xmlComponents Site CreatorTwo Peabody professors discuss how to evaluate the progress of the No Child Left Behind act.http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x6842.xmlComponents Site CreatorEducators receive new help in identifying the next generation of exceptional minds in science, technology, engineering and mathematics — key fields in our increasingly competitive, information-based global economy.http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/releases/2006/12/18/developing-our-brightest-minds-a-report-from-the-study-of-mathematically-precocious-youth-after-35-yearsComponents Site CreatorHow do we measure student success? How do we help students succeed? John Braxton, professor of higher education, has identified eight “domains” of student success, six of which are directly influenced by faculty.http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/releases/2006/12/11/college-student-success-its-more-than-graduation-ratesComponents Site CreatorPeabody research will contribute to the court’s deliberations in what could be two of the most significant racial integration cases since Brown v. Board of Education.http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/releases?id=30541Components Site CreatorThe new National Center for Leadership in Visual Impairments is equipping an elite group of scholars to become leaders in the fields of visual impairment and blindness.http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x3471.xmlComponents Site CreatorCarolyn Hughes, professor of special education, is piloting a mentoring program that pairs Vanderbilt students with students at local high-poverty high schools.http://www.vanderbilt.edu/register/articles?search_string=HUGHES&x=20&y=11&id=30341Components Site CreatorCamilla Benbow, dean of Peabody College, is part of a select group of education and business leaders who are charged with creating national standards for information literacy.http://www.vanderbilt.edu/register/articles?id=29866Components Site CreatorA Vanderbilt-developed reading intervention program helps children nationwide improve their reading skills.http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=522050Components Site CreatorA study by Steve Graham, professor of special education, demonstrates how learning handwriting is still vitally important for students’ cognitive and academic development.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/10/AR2006101001475.htmlComponents Site CreatorResearch by special education professor Steve Graham addresses the marked need to improve writing skills in middle- and high-school students.http://www.vanderbilt.edu/register/articles?search_string=peabody&x=0&y=0&id=29679Components Site CreatorCarolyn Hughes, professor of special education, has been piloting a mentoring program that pairs college students with students in two of Nashville’s high poverty high schools.http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x3495.xmlComponents Site CreatorPeabody researchers want to know why many American students begin but do not finish college and what can be done to help more students earn degrees.http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/releases/2006/10/2/new-study-seeks-to-improve-college-graduation-rateComponents Site CreatorThe new National Center on Performance Incentives was established through a $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences.http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x3487.xmlComponents Site CreatorMedia mentions and stories from April 2007http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x7277.xmlComponents Site CreatorMedia mentions and stories from March 2007http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x7018.xmlComponents Site CreatorMedia mentions and stories from February 2007http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x7012.xmlComponents Site CreatorMedia mentions and stories from January 2007http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x6968.xmlComponents Site CreatorMedia mentions and stories from December 2006http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x6974.xmlComponents Site CreatorMedia mentions and stories from November 2006http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x6975.xmlComponents Site CreatorMedia mentions and stories from October 2006http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x6976.xmlComponents Site CreatorMedia mentions and stories from September 2006http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x6973.xmlComponents Site CreatorMedia mentions and stories from August 2006http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x6972.xmlComponents Site CreatorMedia mentions and stories from July 2006http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x5299.xmlComponents Site CreatorMedia mentions and stories from June 2006http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x5936.xmlComponents Site CreatorNew research indicates that parents should choose videos with high interactive content if they want their children to be educated as well as entertained by their time in front of the tube.http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x3485.xmlComponents Site CreatorA new Center for Community Studies has brought together psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists and other social scientists to study and address issues facing communities.http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x3492.xmlComponents Site CreatorThe 2001 No Child Left Behind act requires states to pay attention to English Language learners. They must be tested, their scores must be reported separately, and they must meet requirements for adequate yearly progress.http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x3491.xmlComponents Site CreatorThe Distinguished Alumnus Award went to Chris Barbic, founder and head of YES College Preparatory Schools, of Houston, Texas, during commencement, Friday, May 12.http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x5519.xmlComponents Site CreatorMedia mentions and stories from May 2006http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x6021.xmlComponents Site CreatorVanderbilt senior Jenny Magill has been named both a 2006 Harry S. Truman Scholar and a 2006 Morris K. 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