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Tag: Education
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Confusion, Play and Postponing Certainty – Eleanor Duckworth – Harvard Thinks Big
Eleanor Duckworth Professor of Education Harvard Graduate School of Education
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An artful perspective
Museum educators are using their collections to help members of the Harvard community explore salient issues like creativity and leadership in new ways.
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Chicago as urban microcosm
For his new book, Robert Sampson studied the Second City’s ups and downs for 15 years to outline patterns for many modern American cities.
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HILT Symposium 2012
The inaugural HILT Symposium opened a Harvard-wide conversation, engaging faculty and students in dialogue, debate, and the sharing of ideas about pedagogical innovation. The event convened invited members of the Harvard community and presenters from within Harvard and externally who offered interesting and informative perspectives on teaching and learning in higher education, with an emphasis…
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Innovation recognized by Ash Center
New York City’s Center for Economic Opportunity (CEO) was named the winner of the Innovations in American Government Award today by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Kennedy School of Government.
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Notes on music’s lessons
At Harvard as part of an ongoing lecture and performance series, musician and composer Wynton Marsalis met with the Harvard community for two far-reaching discussions in which music and the arts played seminal roles.
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Duncan urges experiments in education
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called for large-scale educational reform during a talk at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.
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Decoding keys to a healthy life
Now 74 years young, the Harvard Study of Adult Development continues to yield a treasure trove of data about how people behave, and change — including predictions of strong indicators to a happy life.
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Not your average road trip
Harvard Business School just sent all 900 first-year M.B.A. students into the field to solve real-world problems in emerging markets from Buenos Aires to Mumbai, in the most ambitious element of an experimental new course. HBS, pioneer of the celebrated case-study method, is working to craft a business education model for the 21st century.
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Measuring effective teaching
Reports of an ongoing study examine the role of classroom observation in helping to determine effective teaching.
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How to teach students about truth
Professor Howard Gardner explored how to teach students the primal concepts of truth, beauty, and goodness during a lecture based on his newest book.
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Innovations in American Government finalists named
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School on Nov. 9 announced the finalists for the Innovations in American Government Award.
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The Harvard Sampler: Liberal Education for the Twenty-First Century
Edited by three Harvard faculty members, including Dean of Harvard College Evelynn M. Hammonds, and featuring essays by University faculty including Jonathan Losos, Steven Pinker, Werner Sollors, and others, this collection of essays offers insight into contemporary education and issues in academia.
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Teaching the teachers
Charged with enhancing undergraduate education in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning annually assists scores of faculty members and teaching fellows.
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What makes a thinker
In a lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, retiring Professor David Perkins explored the evolution of the teaching of thinking, including its history, obstacles, advances, and likely future.
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Glenn Beck, Joel Klein, Amar’e Stoudamire and Others Reflect on Their Education
During the opening days of my freshman year at Bryn Mawr College in the fall of 1964, I joined my classmates in a large Gothic hall to be greeted by…
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Three named MacArthur Fellows
Three Harvard faculty members — Roland Fryer Jr., Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics; Markus Greiner, associate professor of physics; and Matthew K. Nock, professor of psychology — are among the recipients of this year’s MacArthur Foundation fellowships, also know as “genius” grants.
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The classroom, circa 2050
Cambridge-Harvard Summer Academy encourages students to design an offbeat, futuristic high school, applying geometry lessons in the process.
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For Harvard, an IT summit
From across the University, members of the information technology community gathered for the first Harvard IT Summit.
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Arne Duncan named chief marshal
The Harvard Alumni Association announced that Arne Duncan ’86 has been elected by his classmates to be this year’s chief marshal for Commencement.
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Truth, beauty, goodness
In his latest book, prolific Professor Howard Gardner insists that the enduring values of truth, beauty, and goodness remain humanity’s bedrock.
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More roads to travel
In an Askwith Forum address, longtime children’s advocate Marian Wright Edelman said there are still many reasons to be alarmed at the grim landscape facing many African-American and Latino children, with 80 percent reaching high school without reading proficiency.
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Five receive Derek C. Bok Award
Five graduate students have been awarded the Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates.
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The gifts of immigration
Two Harvard researchers say that new U.S. residents, most of whom are young and nonwhite, reflect not just policy challenges, but an immense reservoir of social potential.
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A window into college
More than 300 kindergarten and fourth-grade African-American boys visited Harvard for the launch of Impact 300, a multifaceted Boston Public Schools program aimed at closing the achievement gap and helping to prepare the boys for college. Harvard partnered with the Boston schools in the program.
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Challenges, solutions for South Asia
A two-day symposium on the future of South Asia examined several key challenges facing the region, as well as solutions on issues ranging from climate change to population control.
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Fresh paths to success
A dean, a professor, and a former journalist are shaking up education and policy circles with a report that asks: What if not everyone had to go to college to have a good life?
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Teachers as part of the solution
President of the American Federation of Teachers outlined her “theory of action” for how to improve the nation’s public school system.
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High-tech tools for change
Education leaders and entrepreneurs from around the world gathered at Harvard for the Advanced Leadership Initiative’s three-day think tank on education and technological innovation.
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‘Bright Ideas’
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School recognized 36 government initiatives as Bright Ideas recipients on March 29.
