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107 stories tagged ‘Education’
Doctors at Brigham and Women's Hospital team up with the New England Journal of Medicine to create online medical cases that can teach better than lectures.
Esther Mwaikambo is used to starting small. Until her teaching hospital was started in 1997, there was only one medical school in Tanzania, graduating 25 to 40 doctors annually.
Teachers’ house calls make pupils, parents feel at home
Boston, which is working in partnership with Harvard University, began its program two years ago and has expanded it to five elementary schools. It followed Springfield’s effort, which launched about five years ago as a partnership among that city’s teachers union, a middle school, and the Pioneer Valley Project, a faith-based community-organizing group that works closely with parents. The program is now active at seven schools, including a high school.
In pursuit of everyday excellence
Stacey M. Childress and David A. Thomas are two Harvard Business School professors who wrote a book on how a struggling school system in Maryland turned itself around.
University Presidents Panel: Higher Ed after the Crash
Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust, on a panel with three other university presidents at the First Draft of History conference, noted that the crash has occasioned a moment of stocktaking, in which universities have been reminded the importance of keeping focus on the "the long view." Universities, unlike corporations, should not be focused on the next quarter but rather on the ages. Cultivating this sense of the long view, Faust said, and instilling critical, skeptical thinking in students, might have helped to forestall or mitigate the economic cataclysm of the last eighteen months.
Worlds of poverty and wealth, constraint and liberation, bring literary scholar Glenda R. Carpio to Harvard stardom.
"I met him the year before I left the Mississippi Delta — my second year as a Teach for America member in Phillips County, Ark., one of the poorest counties in the country. Patrick had flunked eighth grade twice; that year was his third try. He simply wouldn’t show up."
Pulling up service by the roots
Weissman fellow spends 10 weeks in South Africa empowering youth through soccer and education.
Visiting faculty bring their art along
The “Visiting Faculty 2009-10” exhibit highlights the work of eight visiting faculty at Harvard’s Department of Visual and Environmental Studies.
New degree aims to transform American education
A new doctoral degree based at Harvard Graduate School of Education aims to train a corps of education leaders to enact system-level change and transform K-12 education in America.
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