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Educational equity - a moral imperative for the 21st century. What do we know about how to close the nation's education achievement gap? What do we still need to figure out? The need to provide answers to those questions is the guiding premise of the four Equity Matters forums that have been conducted by TC's Campaign for Educational Equity since the beginning of the new year. TC People - Teachers College draws students from all around the globe, but Jonathan Bresman may be the first who comes to us via the desert planet of Tattooine. OK, he may not literally be Luke Skywalker's best friend, but you can see him playing, as he puts it, the world's clumsiest stormtrooper in remastered versions of The Empire Strikes Back-'just one of the wild turns his life has taken. Policy - Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Sharon Lynn Kagan are leaders in the early childhood education revolution. Research/Publications - Two new studies show that teachers who successfully use a method called proximal assessment for learner diagnosis, or PALD, can boost the performance of fifth and sixth grade students in math. TC NewsMakers - In the early 1970s, Henry Levin now Professor of Economics and Education at TC did a major report for a Senate sub-committee on the ...