Better-quality child care has real effects
In a study, higher quality child care showed a positive relation to higher levels of social functioning in children both at school and at home. Those children who attended higher-level child care also...
View ArticleLooking behind headlines on preschools
The National Institute for Child Health and Human Development Study of Child Care and Youth Development is the most comprehensive look at child care to date. The study made news in April 2001, when...
View Article‘Usable Knowledge’ Web site delivers research to educators
The Harvard Graduate School of Education on Dec. 6, 2006, launched a new Web site aimed at connecting the research of its faculty with educators in the field. The Usable Knowledge Web site features a...
View ArticleThe importance of early education
Forty-six years ago, a working-class town in Michigan began a program that changed lives. “Mind-blowing,” one scholar called it at Harvard last week. The Perry Preschool was a program for 3- and...
View ArticleMcCain’s, Obama’s education platforms on view at Kennedy School
It was standing room only at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) as a former governor and a Harvard Law School (HLS) professor took on the issue of education. The presidential style debate on Sept. 17...
View ArticleMaking connections: A special evening for Harvard faculty
“The arts are something we all care deeply about, whether we are artists ourselves, whether we are social scientists, or whether we are scientists,” Senior Vice Provost Judith Singer told an audience...
View ArticleEducation reform
No Child Left Behind succeeded in focusing the nation’s attention on meeting the needs of all learners, including poor children, children of color, and children with special needs. Unfortunately, the...
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New degree aims to transform American education
The numbers paint a grim picture. Graduation rates are dismal for many areas of the country. In the 50 largest cities in the United States, only 52 percent of students graduate from high school....
View ArticleTheodore Sizer dies at 77
Onetime Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) Dean Theodore Sizer, who spent half a century as a teacher, education reformer, leader, author, and mentor, died Oct. 21 at his Harvard, Mass., home....
View ArticleVoluntary retirement program
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) offered a customized voluntary retirement program today (Dec. 2) to 127 eligible faculty members. At the same time, four of Harvard’s graduate and professional...
View ArticleMultiple interests
Contrary to what many people may think about the originator of the theory of multiple intelligences (MI), Howard Gardner spends little time these days thinking about his breakthrough. As he told a...
View ArticleReforming public education
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told a large Harvard crowd Friday (Feb. 26) that the country’s public school system needs massive reform. Duncan, who was on campus for a discussion sponsored by...
View ArticleFor the children
Since it was first published 41 years ago, a copy of acclaimed author and illustrator Eric Carle’s children’s book “A Very Hungry Caterpillar” has been sold every minute somewhere in the world. Carle,...
View ArticleMonica Higgins named professor of education at HGSE
Associate Professor Monica Higgins has been promoted to full professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). Higgins’ expertise is focused on areas of leadership development and...
View ArticleTV races toward its future
Anne Sweeney, Ed.M. ’80, remembered being a 20-year-old page at ABC TV during the 1970s — a wide-eyed novice in a gray skirt who had to keep silent and still until the commercial breaks. Sweeney is...
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2,600 miles and one screen apart
The students at the John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science in Boston seemed like old friends with their counterparts from the Paradise Valley Unified School District in Arizona, the way...
View ArticleEducation scholar Gerald Lesser, 84
Gerald Lesser, Charles Bigelow Professor of Education and Developmental Psychology Emeritus at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), died on Sept. 23 at the age of 84. Lesser is perhaps most...
View ArticleHeading for Congress
The campaign’s over. Time to govern. The differences between the black-and-white rigors of an election campaign and the nuanced work of being an effective lawmaker were brought home to two dozen...
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Spotlight on Harvard in Chile
President Drew Faust is traveling this week to highlight Harvard’s engagement with Latin America. In Chile, she is meeting with government and academic leaders and getting a firsthand look at the...
View ArticleThinking outside the gilded frame
Hanging in plastic sleeves from thin metal chains against a concrete wall, Bettina Burch’s portraits of faculty, staff, and students look more like oversize employee badges dangling from lanyards than...
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