Tag: Center for Education Policy Research

  • Nation & World

    Remote learning likely widened racial, economic achievement gap

    A new study found that students in high-poverty schools that offered remote instruction for most of 2020-2021 experienced huge learning losses.

    9 minutes
    Thomas Kane.
  • Nation & World

    Talent on the sidelines

    Every spring, high-achieving high school seniors around the country play the college admissions game in the lead-up to the May 1 decision deadline. Research by Christopher Avery of HKS research shows that many poor but promising students are sitting out.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    McCartney named president of Smith

    Kathleen McCartney, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Early Childhood Development, will become the next president of Smith College next year.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A moveable feast comes to Harvard

    On Tuesdays, from 11:45 a.m. to 3 p.m., members of the Harvard community stop by food trucks parked on Oxford Street and try a variety of artisan dishes for their lunchtime reprieve. The trucks are part of a Harvard community outreach effort called the Harvard Common Spaces program.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Education reform, by the numbers

    The Strategic Data Project at the Graduate School of Education aims to develop a new corps of data analysts who can help to lead reform of the nation’s public school systems.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Measuring effective teaching

    Reports of an ongoing study examine the role of classroom observation in helping to determine effective teaching.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Changing how teachers improve

    A new initiative headed by a Harvard scholar aims to transform the way teachers improve their performance, and to overhaul the nation’s public schools in the process.

    5 minutes