NCCF Co-Director interviewed on PBS Documentary, WHERE WE STAND: America's Schools in the 21st Century.
NCCF Co-director Sharon Lynn Kagan will be featured on the upcoming PBS documentary, WHERE WE STAND: America's Schools in the 21st Century. The program looks at American public education through the prism of real schools, administrators, teachers and students, and seeks advice from a range of experts on how to fix problems such as low math and science literacy, unequal resource allocation and decreasing college graduation rates. The program will premiere at 10 p.m., Monday, September 15 on PBS and air throughout the election season on PBS affiliates and at http://www.PBS.org. Click here to view a press release with more details about the documentary.

NCCF Seeks Research Assistants
The National Center for Children and Families seeks two TC students to assist on a research project. Duties will involve coding videotaped discussions between fifth-grade children and their mothers. Spanish fluency strongly desired. Previous research experience a plus. Will require 15-20 hours/week, possibly through spring semester. Pay: $12/hr. Please email letter and CV to Anne Martin, Senior Research Scientist, at: amartin@tc.edu.

Mothers Don't Have the Monopoly
In a Newsday op-ed, Anne Martin, senior research scientist, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, NCCF co-director, discuss research showing that men can be capable and effective caregivers. Click here to read the article.

NCCF Co-Director Joins the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education Task Force
NCCF Co-director Sharon Lynn Kagan has joined a new task force of national policy experts in launching the highly publicized “Broader, Bolder Approach to Education” campaign. The movement hopes to end the current cycle of reform efforts that have achieved little in the way of education and child development gains for those facing economic disadvantage and low student achievement. The Task Force’s framework points to the many flaws in the approach of the current No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law. Dr. Kagan is a member of the task force and helped to draft the campaign statement, both of which have caused great debate among the education policy community and received national recognition in the NY Times, the Washington Post and other media. View the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education website.

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