Releases
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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 MoreNov 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 MoreNov 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 MoreNov 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 MoreNov 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 MoreNov 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 MoreNov 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 MoreNov 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 MoreNov 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 MoreNov 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 MoreNov 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 MoreNov 7, 2011
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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 MoreNov 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 MoreNov 3, 2011
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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 MoreNov 3, 2011
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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 MoreNov 3, 2011
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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 MoreNov 3, 2011
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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 MoreNov 2, 2011
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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 MoreNov 2, 2011
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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 MoreNov 2, 2011
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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 MoreNov 2, 2011