Tag: Harvard Graduate School of Education

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    From around the world and across Harvard

    The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has named 50 fellows for the 2016-17 academic year. Eleven of the incoming class are Harvard faculty.

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    The quest to create an education system that works for all kids

    Educators came to the Harvard Graduate School of Education on Tuesday for the kickoff of the Education Redesign Lab’s By All Means initiative, which will work closely in the field with six cities to tackle early childhood challenges.

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    Ed School launches major early childhood initiative

    The Harvard Graduate School of Education received the largest gift in its history from the Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation to focus on advancing early childhood education, which will distinguish HGSE as a national leader for work in this field.

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    A course that keeps teaching

    Educators gathered at the Harvard Ed Portal for Data Wise, a new HarvardX course that will transform classroom dynamics and build “collaborative inquiry” among teachers. The Data Wise Leadership Institute will begin in June.

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    Unlocking doors

    Dominique Donette, who is graduating from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, beat long odds in her quest to help empower the powerless.

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    Bok Center celebrates 40 years

    The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning celebrates its 40th anniversary with a conversation between President Drew Faust and President Emeritus Derek Bok and a symposium on educating.

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    Toward a path less riddled

    Research by doctoral student Anthony Abraham Jack has left a mark on campus life.

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    The link between art and history

    The Harvard Graduate School of Education and Cambridge Rindge and Latin School are collaborating on a program that brings history to life through the Harvard Art Museums’ collections.

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    The making of two educators

    Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust and her brother, Donald Gilpin, a retired English and drama teacher, shared their thoughts on pedagogy in a discussion at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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    The costs of inequality: For women, progress until they get near power

    In recent decades, women have made progress in pay and parity with men in such professions as medicine and law. But when it comes to running things at the highest levels, it’s generally still a man’s world.

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    Sandra Boynton shares her story

    Cartoonist, children’s book author, and songwriter Sandra Boynton will present a fast-paced audiovisual retrospective of her work on Feb. 23, part of the Askwith Forum series.

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    The costs of inequality: Education’s the one key that rules them all

    When inequality is baked into public educational systems from kindergarten through the 12th grade, it usually extends through other aspects of life later, Harvard analysts say.

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    Lessons in learning

    At the Global Education Conference, HGSE students presented papers on how to improve educational opportunity around the world.

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    Presidential Public Service Fellows tackle big issues

    Combating pregnancy discrimination. Reducing racial disparities in obesity rates. Working on the front lines of the opiate epidemic. These are a few of the experiences undertaken by Harvard’s Presidential Public Service Fellows. The deadline to apply for the 2016 fellowships is Feb. 8.

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    Dance that adapts to disabilities

    A Graduate School of Education alumna brings her family history into the dance studio as she teaches children with disabilities the art of movement and the rewards they can reap.

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    Happy to be puzzled

    For the English Department’s Gwen Urdang-Brown, crossword puzzles have always been a family affair. The first crossword puzzle appeared in the New York World newspaper on Dec. 21, 1913. (Dec. 21 is now recognized as Crossword Puzzle Day.)

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    Struggle in the shadows

    New book by Roberto Gonzales, an assistant professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education, says undocumented young adults are at risk of becoming a disenfranchised underclass.

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    ‘Bright Lights’ reflects well on Edison K-8

    Principal for a Day program allows local leaders, including Harvard Vice President Paul Andrew, to see the changes that have occurred in the way students learn. Andrew visited Thomas Edison K-8 School in Brighton.

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    School testing a mixed bag, study says

    HGSE researcher finds mixed results among students in Texas schools in the 1990s: Some did better, and others were worse off.

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    Q&A with Harvard President Drew Faust

    Harvard President Drew Faust sat down with The Gazette recently to discuss the University landscape for the coming academic year, including Harvard’s priorities for 2015-16 as well as some of the challenges ahead.

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    A summer of learning

    At the Cambridge-Harvard Summer Academy, students stretch their minds through science.

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    Who needs answers?

    The 2015 Arts and Passion-Driven Learning Institute traced connections among inspiration, imagination, and creative work.

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    Hard hats aplenty

    Harvard’s Schools are hammering out construction projects to meet modern educational needs.

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    Reconnecting on education

    Panelists across Harvard gather to consider how education should and will affect tomorrow’s global challenges.

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    John Harvard ‘speaks’

    For the next week, Daniel Chester French’s iconic statue will be animated by the faces, voices, and gestures of Harvard students as part of “John Harvard Projection,” a video installation created by artist and Harvard Graduate School of Design Professor Krzysztof Wodiczko.

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    The Ferguson conversation

    In the wake of the Ferguson tumult, an Askwith Forum panel examines ways to promote discussions on race, and to craft solutions during a discussion at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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    Massive study on MOOCs

    A Harvard and MIT study’s findings suggest that teachers often constitute a significant portion of the participants in MOOCs; that learner intentions matter; and that those with financial stakes have higher completion rates.

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    Radically rethinking education

    Higher education in the digital age is radically remaking the models by which it delivers its content, the leader of a higher education technology association said.

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    Lessons in the power of theater

    The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) and Harvard’s Public School Partnerships brought local students to campus to view, and share thoughts on, A.R.T.’s production of Suzan-Lori Parks’ “Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3).”

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    Code like a girl

    HGSE panelists outlined ways to counter the shortage of women pursuing careers that require a STEM education, particularly in computer science.

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