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Columbia Study Finds Students in Standalone Middle Schools Lag Behind K-8 Peers

Rockoff's study shows that after they enter middle school, students have lower test scores than students continuing in K-8 schools. (Image credit: Authors' calculations)

A new study that analyzes a decade of achievement data from New York City public schools reveals that the trajectories of math and English performance among students at standalone middle schools are significantly lower than students attending kindergarten-to-eighth grade (K-8) schools. The study, authored by researchers at Columbia University, was published in the journal Education Next and is also forthcoming in the Journal of Public Economics.

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Journalism Fellows Showcase the Many Dimensions of Aging in Americavideo icon

Ten reporters have spent this summer at Columbia’s School of Journalism producing a series of in-depth multimedia reports on the elderly, depicting the complex dimensions of aging.

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Dawn M. Greene, Philanthropist and
Columbia Donor, Passes Away

L-R: New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Dawn Greene and Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger (Image credit: Eileen Barroso/Columbia University)

Dawn M. Greene, president and CEO of the Jerome L. Greene Foundation, passed away on August 30, 2010 at the age of 88.

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Self-Portrait with Flying Dog from F.M.R.A., 1980 (Image credit: The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust)<i>Book Collector with Six Cats (one hidden)</i>, from an original unpublished drawing (Image credit: The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust)<i>Cat with Christmas muffler</i>, c. 1973 (Image credit: The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust)<i>Christmas Carolers</i>, c. 1953 (Image credit: The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust)<i>Memorial Wreaths</i>, c. 1953 (Image credit: The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust)<i>Christmas Gifts</i>, c. 1953 (Image credit: The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust)<i>Christmas Tiger</i>, c. 1970 (Image credit: The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust)<i>Unraveling the Knitting</i> from <i>The Listing Attic</i>, 1954 (Image credit: The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust)He wrote it all down Zealously from The Glorious Nosebleed, 1974 (Image credit: The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust)

Illustrator Edward Gorey’s Works Donated to Columbia

A large and important collection of works by the idiosyncratic illustrator, designer and writer, Edward Gorey (1925-2000), has been donated to Columbia's Rare Book & Manuscript Library by Andrew Alpern.

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