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Camilla Benbow, dean of Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College, received the National Association for Gifted Children’s 2009 Presidential Award at the group’s annual convention in St. Louis, which was held Nov. 5-8.
Peabody faculty member David Dickinson will be a featured guest speaker at an international conference on child development in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Nov. 24-25.
Watch video of Donna Ford, professor of special education at Vanderbilt's Peabody College of Education and Human Development, discussing her research with gifted minority youth and what is needed to close the achievement gap.
Watch video of University of Michigan School of Education Dean Deborah Ball speaking about the need for more practical classroom experience in the curriculum of collegiate education programs across the country.
Watch video about the Scholar Identity Institute at Vanderbilt University, an innovative program now in its third year that aims to give young black men the academic and personal skills and attitudes they need for lifelong success. The video features interviews with the young men, and program coordinators Gilman Whiting and Donna Ford.
Carl E. Wieman from the University of British Columbia who shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in physics for the creation of a new state of matter talks about the future of science education.
