Vanderbilt University's Peabody College

About Us

Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development is a top-ranked graduate school which contains national research centers on learning disabilities, teacher performance incentives, and school choice.

We benefit thousands of people by creating new knowledge. Some of our most recent work focuses on understanding how

    * children with learning disabilities can benefit from increasing levels of classroom intervention (Response to Intervention)
    * technology can be used to teach autistic students about emotions
    * to use positive behavior supports in the classroom
    * to close the minority academic achievement gap

In these and many other projects, Peabody partners with metropolitan, state, and national organizations on funded research projects; examples include

    * an interdisciplinary program of research focusing on the role of the body in mathematical activity
    * an assessment system for evaluating student skills with data modeling and statistical reasoning
    * the impact on student achievement of performance incentives for teachers, administrators, and principals