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Tag: Cambridge Public Schools
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Reframing civics education
Harvard’s Democratic Knowledge Project bridges core knowledge, diverse perspectives, and agency to statewide pilot of new interactive schools’ curriculum.
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Global strike comes to Harvard
Harvard students and those from Cambridge public schools joined their voices in a rally calling for climate change action Friday on Harvard’s Science Center Plaza.
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To everything there is a season? It’s not as simple as that
Harvard scientists and Cambridge Public Schools educators are collaborating on a special-thinking program that clears up misconceptions and teaches eighth-graders the hard science behind the changing seasons.
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Eighth-grade ingenuity
Eighth-graders from upper schools across Cambridge brought their science projects to campus as part of the seventh annual Science and Engineering Showcase.
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Project Teach shows youngsters what’s possible
Project Teach brings local middle-school students to Harvard’s campus to help them learn about the college experience and explore their options.
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Science, on the edge
Cambridge eighth-graders immersed themselves in science’s future during their visit to Harvard.
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Spark of science
Local students visited the Harvard campus to celebrate their partnership with the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and to present their final science and engineering projects.
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A sampling of college
Created 25 years ago as a way to connect Harvard with the Cambridge public schools, Project Teach now involves sharing a research-based approach with educators in the local schools.
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A successful community experiment
A Harvard program that welcomes high school interns to learn science in the lab often sets them on new academic and career paths.
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A museum as school lab
Hundreds of Cambridge sixth-graders swarmed the Harvard Museum of Natural History for a look at prehistoric New England.
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In pursuit of science
Educational partnerships between Harvard and Cambridge public schools are bringing the theoretical to life, including at the middle school level.
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Sharing a love for science
Nearly 400 local eighth-grade students came to Harvard’s campus for SEAS’s third annual Science and Engineering Showcase.
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Homing in on bones
Skulls and bones drew a class of Cambridge third0graders to Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. They visited the museum’s zooarchaeology lab to learn about different animals and how they relate to the study of human life.
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No summer lull in learning
It was a busy summer of Harvard-supported learning on campus and in the neighboring communities.
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The poetry of achievement
Thirty high school students from the Boston area gathered for the Crimson Summer Academy’s annual poetry slam. The young scholars spend three consecutive summers on the Harvard campus, amid classes, projects, field trips, and cultural activities to achieve their dream: success at college.
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A lighthearted lunch
Close to 1,000 members of Cambridge’s senior community gathered in Tercentenary Theatre for the 37th annual summer luncheon.
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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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It was a very good year
With its 360th Commencement, another chapter in Harvard’s history draws to a close, as marked by highlights from this year. Reinstallation of ROTC, ongoing innovation in science and humanities, and Wynton Marsalis at Harvard top off some of the year’s historical benchmarks.
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Young pioneers of science
Four hundred eighth-grade students from the Cambridge public schools visited campus to discuss their science experiments with the Harvard community.
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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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Harvard Graduate School of Education awards six Conant Fellowships
The Harvard Graduate School of Education presented six outstanding educators from the Boston and Cambridge public school systems with James Bryant Conant Fellowships on May 31. Each of the recipients will receive one year of study at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE).