Steinhardt Features

• Closing the Achievement Gap: Facing Challenges from Outside the Classroom

• Jane Bear-Lehman, associate professor and department chair of Occupational Therapy, provides an overview of occupational therapy and discusses her research on community-dwelling elders in northern Manhattan.

• Professor Noguera speaks about issues related to educational equity in the USA and what teachers need to know and be able to do in order to be effective.

• Carola Suarez-Orozco on her 5-year longitudinal study of immigrant children.

• This talk explores how video games can organize deep conceptual understanding, as well as a variety of 21st century skills rarely offered in schools today. 

• This talk discusses gender in academic achievement.
  
  Part of NYU Steinhardt's series of Educational Policy Breakfasts.
  
  Featuring Marcia C. Linn Professor at University of California, Berkeley & Joshua Aronson Associate Professor at NYU Steinhardt.

• Joseph Reagle is an adjunct professor in the department of Media, Culture and Communication and an expert on Wikipedia and collaborative communities.

• Dr. Grigos discusses her research in Speech- Language Pathology and Audiology at NYU Steinhardt.

• Pedro Noguera discusses the term equity and the forces that sometimes prevent schools from providing children with equitable outcomes.

• Ira Newborn discusses the musical, technical, narrative and cultural components that shape his approach to scoring a particular film.

• Larry Aber, professor of applied psychology, discusses the psychological effects that the events of 9/11 had on children.

• Assistant Professor Maria Grigos discusses the undergraduate program in Communicative Sciences and Disorders at NYU Steinhardt.

• Marion Nestle discusses obesity, the food industry, and the movement toward healthier models of food production.

• Beth Weitzman discusses the status of cities in the United States.
  

• Promising Practices
  Claire E. Sylvan, Internationals Network for Public Schools
  Glynda Hull, Digital Underground Storytelling for Youth
  Mary Walsh, Boston Connects

• Susan Kirch discusses her research into the degree to which elementary school students engage in scientific reasoning.

• Perry Halkitis discusses the interlocking factors of drug abuse, mental health, and HIV transmission.

• Agneiszka Roginska discusses the applications of cutting-edge research into 3D-audio and spatial sound.

• The Future of Men panel discussion

• Jacqueline Mattis discusses her research into optimism, altruism, volunteerism, and other positive developmental outcomes among African Americans.

• John Torreano, clinical professor of art and art education, presents a series of striking photographs of many of the abandoned and decaying automobile factories of his hometown.

• Carola Suarez-Orozco discusses her 5-year longitudinal study of immigrant children.

• Jan Plass discusses his research in Games for Learning, Molecules and Minds Project and a Surgical Simulation done in conjunction with the NYU Medical School.

• Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco discusses the characteristics of large-scale immigration.

• Educational Theater and Applied Psychology Professor Robert Landy discusses his work with children who experienced the events of 9/11 firsthand.