Press Clippings for Fall 2007

Applied Psychology

"Experiments Aim to Ease Effects of 'Stereotype Threat'." Education Week. October 24, 2007. "'You can scare people so much in the lab that you can make existing gaps [between many minority students and their higher achieving white and Asian American peers] wider,' said Joshua Aronson, an associate professor of Applied Psychology at New York University, who is conducting much of that research. 'But the real message of this work is that you also can make gaps narrower.'"

Humanities & Social Science

"Get Congress Out of the Classroom." The New York Times. October 3, 2007. "Washington and the states should reverse roles on education,"-Diane Ravitch, Research Professor at New York University and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.

"Hateful Speech Isn't Hateful Action." Christian Science Monitor. September 27, 2007. "...Americans appear to have forgotten the difference between hateful speech and hateful action. And when we lose sight of that distinction, we lose what should be distinctive about America itself,"-Jonathan Zimmerman, associate professor of Educational History

"Real Price of College Dorms." Philadelphia Inquirer. October 23, 2007. "As schools' accommodations get fancier, an 'entitled' generation of students could miss out on the main aspects of higher education,"-Jonathan Zimmerman, associate professor of Educational History

"New in Print: Higher Education - 'Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education Elites' by Mitchell L. Stevens." Education Week. October 31, 2007. "...admissions offices for the nation's elite colleges and universities do more to perpetuate privilege than encourage upward social mobility," contends Stevens, and associate professor of Education and Sociology at New York University."

"America's Addiction to Sports." Christian Science Monitor. November 20, 2007. "Americans are as addicted to competitive sports in ways that are profoundly unhealthy to our schools, our bodies, and ourselves,"-Jonathan Zimmerman, associate professor of Educational History

"Falling Between Two Worlds." The News & Observer. November 26, 2007. "A national survey, run by New York University's Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, The Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education, tracked immigrant teens for five years. At the end, half were doing worse in school than when the study began."

Physical Therapy

"Well Worth the Weight." USA Today. August 20, 2007. "...picture one of Moffat's clients: She's a 97-year-old lady who has been lifting for five years. 'She lifts 4-pound weights for her upper-body-strength regimen and 4.5 on her legs.' Moffat, a professor of Physical Therapy at New York University and co-author of Age-Defying Fitness."says. ... That routine ... is a big reason the client remains 'totally functionally independent.'

Teaching & Learning

"Disciplinary Practices Detrimental to Black Education." New Pittsburgh Courier. July 25, 2007. 'The racial disparities in school disciplinary practices, particularly in respect to who gets punished, how they are punished and the severity of the punishment, really mirror the achievement gap,' said Professor Pedro Noguera, professor in the department of Teaching and Learning. He is also the Executive Director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education and the co-Director of the Institute for the study of Globalization and Education in Metropolitan Settings (IGEMS)