FROM THE EDITORS This is our mission: TC Public Space is a Teachers College-wide newspaper publication designed to enhance the social and academic life of students through increasing participation in the TC community, providing an avenue for student voice, acting as a vehicle of dissemination for key issues in the community, and creating and maintaining… Read More The Newspaper for TC by TC
FIELD REPORT In May 2013, the Teachers College faculty voted down the administration’s FY 2014 budget proposal. Doctoral students, angered by the administration’s refusal to provide adequate funding, supported the faculty by organizing a sit-in in solidarity with them as they rejected the budget. The following was a dispatch written for a general audience describing… Read More Recent Activism at Teachers College: The Hallway Action, May 2013
BY JARRITT SHEEL Donaldson Toussaint L’Ouverture Byrd II passed away on February 4, 2013 in Dover, Delaware where he had been a resident for decades. He was a titan in the realms of Jazz, Rhythm & Blues and Hip-Hop music. He was one of the only bebop musicians to successfully forge the paths of Soul… Read More The Late Donald Byrd: His Impact on American Education
FROM THE EDITORS As many of you likely know, Maxine Greene passed away on May 29, 2014 at the age of 96. Maxine taught at Teachers College for almost fifty years and was one of the biggest names in philosophy since Dewey to be associated with the school, but she touched the lives of other… Read More In Memorium
You want to make a difference, that’s why you’re at TC. Report on, write about, budge, persuade, guide interview, photograph, serve, and IMPACT the Community. Get Involved. Email interest to tcpublicspace@gmail.com TC Public Space is Teachers College’s new newspaper. Our mission is to enhance social and academic lives of students through increasing participation in the… Read More Editorial Board Openings
BY CASSIE GARE The standards movement is meant to raise expectations for all students, regardless of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic or disability status. For many students with special needs, however, the unintended consequences of accountability have come at a high price, in many cases leading schools to compromise educational quality in the name of rigor. Proponents… Read More The Unintended Consequences of Accountability: Serving Students with Special Needs
BY JOSH WARREN I have been asked to write 500 words on student communications at Teachers College. I am qualified to write about this because I have been a doctoral student at Teachers College for ten years and I have served on the TC Student Senate repeatedly as their Chief Communications Officer. I am no… Read More Opinion: Be Young and Shut Up
BY JULIANNA BROWN Much has been said about the psychological effect of standardized testing on students. Very little has been said about the effect of the far more pervasive and potentially more harmful practice of grading. Many have accepted grading as a fact of life in education, a practice so ingrained in the fiber of… Read More A Deeper Look at Classroom Grading Practices, Harmful or Helpful?
BY ALLISON BALDWIN When I attended the Newark campus of Rutgers University in New Jersey during my undergraduate career, every September the Office of Student Life and Leadership would host a Student Organization Symposium. This event, which usually happened during the first three weeks of the year, allowed representatives of the 30 plus organizations to… Read More Teachers College Needs Greater Student Organization Presence
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