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    Researcher: Republicans are fumbling the immigration issue

    When the Republican presidential candidates ramp up anti-immigrant rhetoric this campaign season, they are likely to alienate conservative-leaning Latinos. Read More

    Nov 28, 2011

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    Students displaced by school closures need high-quality alternatives

    Students displaced by school closures experience adverse effects both on test scores and attendance—unless they are transferred to substantially higher-performing schools. Read More

    Nov 23, 2011

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    Six ways we kill innovation without even trying

    Management professor David Owens of the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Owen Graduate School of Management says that business and other leaders need to understand exactly which of the constraints are working against them to help create conditions that foster innovation instead of killing it. Read More

    Nov 21, 2011

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    Estrogen treatments increase gray matter in brain

    Short-term hormone replacement therapy offers potential benefit for cognitive functioning. Read More

    Nov 18, 2011

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    Innovative ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ joint degree combines neuroscience and law

    Applications are being accepted for the second class of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´â€™s innovative Ph.D/J.D. program combining the study of law and neuroscience. ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ launched the first such program in the country in 2010 when it enrolled Bowdoin College alumnus Matthew Ginther to be the first to take on the challenging curriculum that alternates classes at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Law School and the university’s graduate program in neuroscience. Read More

    Nov 17, 2011

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    Workers receive higher pay for the risk of sexual harassment on the job

    Economist Joni Hersch has calculated the first measures of sexual harassment risks at work by industry, age group, and sex. Hersch finds that female workers are six times more likely than male workers to experience sexual harassment on the job. Read More

    Nov 17, 2011

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    Alcoholics’ ‘injured brains’ work harder to complete simple tasks

    Alcoholic brains must work harder to complete simple tasks. Read More

    Nov 15, 2011

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    Author Francis Fukuyama available to media after Nov. 15 talk at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´

    Francis Fukuyama, Stanford professor and author of The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, will be available to media immediately following his hour-long talk on Tuesday, Nov. 15, that begins at 5:30 p.m. in the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Law School’s Flynn Auditorium. Read More

    Nov 14, 2011

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    Breastfeeding problems can be linked to a tied tongue

    A simple procedure can correct ‘tongue-tie,’ a commonly missed condition that could prevent newborns from breastfeeding properly. Read More

    Nov 10, 2011

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    ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ and University of Melbourne fund $344,000 in joint research projects

    ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ and Australia’s University of Melbourne have awarded $344,000 to support eight joint research projects as part of the expansion in their academic partnership announced last fall. Read More

    Nov 9, 2011

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    Nov. 15 debate: Are record labels obsolete?

    A distinguished panel of business and academic experts will discuss the viability of record labels in the digital age during the first ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´-Melbourne Global Debate. The debate, the first of an ongoing series born of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´â€™s partnership with The University of Melbourne, will be held 9 to 10:45 a.m. Nov. 15 in Flynn Auditorium at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Law School. Read More

    Nov 7, 2011

  • Dean’s Message

    Dean’s Message

    Fall 2011 finds ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´â€™s Peabody College deeply engaged with critical issues confronting both educators and schools of education. On questions of policy, educational neuroscience, or learning and instruction, the Peabody faculty is making valuable contributions to discovery, dissemination and public discourse. We are similarly involved with questions about the role,… Read More

    Nov 4, 2011

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    Lecture set Nov. 8 on Black Panthers and healthcare equality

    Pioneering efforts by the Black Panther Party to pursue equality in health care will be discussed Nov. 8 during a lecture at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´. Read More

    Nov 3, 2011

  • About Ideas in Action

    About Ideas in Action

    Dean Camilla P. Benbow camilla.benbow@vanderbilt.edu Editor Kurt Brobeck, Director of Communications
 kurt.brobeck@vanderbilt.edu Contributors Camilla P. Benbow, Melanie Moran , Jim Patterson, Courtney Taylor, Jennifer Wetzel Photography Mary Donaldson, Daniel Dubois, Steve Green, Wolf Hoffmann, Lauren Owens, John Russell, Adam Waterson Illustration… Read More

    Nov 3, 2011

  • Teacher Compensation ‘Incredibly Inefficient,’ New Research Finds


    Teacher Compensation ‘Incredibly Inefficient,’ New Research Finds


    Matthew Springer Teacher salaries are largely set by schedules which are neither performance related nor market-driven and have significant consequences on school staffing and workforce quality, new research from the National Center on Performance Incentives at Peabody College finds. “We know the way in which we currently compensate K-12 public school teachers… Read More

    Nov 3, 2011

  • Understanding Causes of Mortality Among Infants With Down Syndrome

    Understanding Causes of Mortality Among Infants With Down Syndrome

    An analysis of the amount, timing and causes of infant mortality among newborns with Down syndrome is the focus of new research by ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Kennedy Center investigators Robert Hodapp and Richard Urbano and recent Peabody graduate and Kennedy Center trainee, Samantha Goldman. The findings, reported in the Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, conclude infants with Down… Read More

    Nov 3, 2011

  • ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Partners With Fort Worth to Aid Low-Performing Students

    ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Partners With Fort Worth to Aid Low-Performing Students

    Thomas Smith Fort Worth Independent School District is the latest partner in a national center at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´â€™s Peabody College that aims to identify programs, practices, processes and policies that make some high schools more effective at reaching low-performing students.

 Fort Worth Independent School District, or FWISD, officially joined the… Read More

    Nov 2, 2011

  • Peabody Ranked No. 1 for Third Consecutive Year


    Peabody Ranked No. 1 for Third Consecutive Year


    For the third straight year, Peabody College was rated the No. 1 graduate school of education in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report rankings released in March.  Peabody is only the second education school in the last decade to have received the top honor spanning consecutive years.  “Peabody College is currently… Read More

    Nov 2, 2011

  • Preparing Teachers for Diversity

    Preparing Teachers for Diversity

    Donna Ford Research from Peabody College faculty members Donna Ford and Rich Milner about historically persistent yet unresolved issues in teacher education was featured in Studying Diversity in Teacher Education, released by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in January. In the book, Ford and co-author Michelle Trotman Scott of the University of West Georgia examine how to prepare teacher… Read More

    Nov 2, 2011

  • New Faculty for 2011-2012

    New Faculty for 2011-2012

    Jason Grissom Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations Jason Grissom Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Education; Ph.D., Stanford University, 2007 

Carrie Kortegast Assistant Professor of the Practice of Higher Education; Ph.D., Iowa State University, 2011

 Christine Quinn Trank Senior Lecturer in Organizational Leadership; Ph.D., University… Read More

    Nov 2, 2011