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• America Reads: Teaching City Children By Words and Example

  NYU Steinhardt runs the largest America Reads program in the country. Since 1997, 12,000 students throughout NYU have been employed in work-study jobs assisting public school teachers help students acquire basic literacy skills.  Working one-on-one with children from Manhattan, Brooklyn, and … (Read Story)
  

• Visual Culture is the Topic of May 31st Conference, Registration Still Open

  “The definition of visual culture changes all the time,” says Nicholas Mirzoeff, a professor in Steinhardt’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication. “It has no fixed object of study, but it is interested in the interplays between and among visual … (Read Story)
  

• Computer Games by Steinhardt’s Jan Plass are Catalyst for Chemistry Learning

  Thanks to Jan Plass, kinetic molecular theory can be as easy as making a cup of hot chocolate. Following a four-year study of 357 rural students, 361 students in urban areas, in a total of 25 high school classrooms in … (Read Story)
  
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