Faculty in the News

Press Clippings for Summer 2007

Applied Psychology

  • "Cocaine: Hidden in Plain Sight." The New York Times – Sunday Styles. June 10, 2007. "'If you're a 19-year-old and you go out and party and you're offered meth, you say no because you've heard these bad things,' he [Perry Halkitis, a professor of applied psychology at New York University] said. 'But you're offered coke, you say yes because you assume it's safe.'"
  • "Life With Father: What Kids Get From Time With Dad." Wall Street Journal. June 14, 2007. "A 2004 Study by Catherine Tamis-LeMonda at New York University and others found a link between fathers' warm, stimulating play with their 2-year-olds and better language and cognitive skills in the children later..."

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Art and Art Professions

  • "Lyle Ashton Harris: A Look Through His Camera's Lens." Ebony Magazine. July 2007. "Today, [Lyle Ashton] Harris teaches at New York University, where he is now the university's first 'global artist' working as a professor in Ghana."

Media, Culture & Communication

  • "Media Ecology Comes into its Own." The Education Digest. April 1, 2007. "Christine Nystrom, who with Neil Postman and Terrance P. Moran founded the doctoral program in media ecology at New York University, describes media ecology 'as a move away from rigid, compartmentalized, uncoordinated specialization in scientific inquiry ... and a movement toward increasing integration of both the physical and the social sciences."
  • "Some Buyers Still Bullish on Papers." Christian Science Monitor. June 28, 2007. "It isn't so much that his [Rupert Murdoch's] politics are far right," says media analyst Mark Crispin Miller of New York University. "It's that his business interests come first."

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Humanities & Social Sciences

  • "Don't Blame the Teachers." The New York Sun. June 14, 2007. "We will continue to misdiagnose our educational needs until we focus on the role of students and their families,"-Diane Ravitch.
  • "Paying for Grades Insults Poor." The New York Sun. June 29, 2007. "The much esteemed Diane Ravitch is a historian of education at New York University and a regular blogger at the Huffington Post in a recent post she writes, 'This plan is insulting to poor kids and poor families. It assumes that they won't do the right thing for themselves unless the government pays them to do it... The plan, moreover, is unethical and immoral."
  • "Parents' Job II." The New York Sun. August 1, 2007. "Even the best teachers can't compete with a powerful pop culture,"-Diane Ravitch.
  • "The Questions of Liberal Education." Liberal Education. Spring 2007. "The questions of liberal education, in short, are the student's own questions; more precisely, they are those of the student who is struggling to be him or herself,"-Rene V. Arcilla, associate professor of educational philosophy and chair of the Department of Humanities and the Social Sciences in the Professions at NYU.
  • "Myth of America's Rags-to-Riches Presidents." Christian Science Monitor. July 18, 2007. "Rudy Giuliani received $11 million last year in speaking fees alone. John McCain is worth between $20 million and $32 million, most of it earned the old fashioned-way: He married into it... Almost all grew up wealthy. That doesn't mean they couldn't serve the less fortunate."-Jonathan Zimmerman.

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Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health

  • "Dunkin' Advisory Board Will Push for Healthier Products." Boston Herald. August 18, 2007. "Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University, is among critics who say such advisory boards are 'for show'."

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Music and Performing Arts Professions

  • "For Inmates, a Stage Paved with Hope." The New York Times - Westchester and the Region. May 27, 2007. "In 2005, Rehabilitation Through the Arts programs were established at prisons in Fishkill and Woodbourne, both in conjunction with New York University ... At Sing Sing, putting on a show is mainly about rehabilitation."
  • "Schools to Train Ballet Pedagogues." The New York Sun. June 15, 2007. "American Ballet Theatre and New York University will offer the nation's first master's degree in dance education with concentration in ballet pedagogy, the institutions announced yesterday... Faculty members from NYU Steinhardt School who will teach in the program include the director of the dance education program, Susan Koff, and the associate director, Barbara Bradshaw."

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Teaching & Learning

  • "This is a Test. Results May Vary." The New York Times. June 13, 2007. "Robert Tobias, who directs the Center for Research on Teaching and Learning at New York University's Steinhardt School of Education, gets suspicious when test results rise too high from one year to the next, or when one grade rises spectacularly and others register only a modest change."
  • "Black Boys' Educational Plight Spurs Single-Gender Schools." Education Week. June 20, 2007. "Pedro Noguera, a professor of teaching and learning at New York University, said designing scores of single-gender programs for black boys could prove misguided without a more complex understanding of the multiple facets that undermine their school performance."
  • "Civil Rights and America's Schools: An Unfinished Legacy." The Washington Post. June 27, 2007. "America expects a lot from its frequently maligned public schools, and with the adoption of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law, we have demanded even more,"-Pedro Noguera.

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