Featured series 
Tag: Education
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Nation & World
Public servant, trusted mentor, conduit to congressional campaign — and clam bake host
Former students, fellows at Harvard Kennedy School share stories about David Gergen
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Arts & Culture
Did Jane Austen even care about romance?
Scholars contest novelist’s ‘rom-com’ rep as 250th anniversary ushers in new screen adaptations
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Science & Tech
Mounting case against notion that boys are born better at math
Elizabeth Spelke studies French testing data, finds no gender gap until instruction begins
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Nation & World
As reading scores decline, a study primed to help grinds to a halt
Partnership with Texas, Colorado researchers terminated as part of federal funding cuts targeting Harvard
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Health
Why are young people taking fewer risks?
Psychologist describes generation overparented — but also overwhelmed by ‘frightening world’
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Science & Tech
Reading skills — and struggles — manifest earlier than thought
New finding underscores need to intervene before kids start school, say researchers
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Science & Tech
‘We’re still standing … We can still do important work’
Climate researchers wrestling with losses of federal funding, data, and key tools
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Arts & Culture
What good is writing anyway?
Scholars across range of disciplines weigh in on value of the activity amid rise of generative AI systems
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Campus & Community
Fight for education, Garber urges grads
‘Everything we might achieve is grounded in knowledge,’ says president in Baccalaureate address
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Nation & World
Let’s not send low-income students back to the ’80s
Financial aid red tape nearly derailed Susan Dynarski’s undergrad dreams. Now she sees decades of progress under threat.
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Campus & Community
Searching for answers to life’s big questions
Kelsey Hanson Woodruff served as a Presbyterian minister before love of religious studies led her to Harvard
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Science & Tech
‘I can just copy-paste things, so do I really need to learn?’
Panelists in University-wide symposium explore promise, peril of AI in academia
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Campus & Community
Using the best GenAI has to offer
HUIT creates safe space to experiment, faculty share how they integrated it into their teaching
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Campus & Community
‘The goal is to understand who you are.’
Studying neurobiology gives Nghia Nguyen insights into ‘technical, tangible’ reasons for the things he does every day
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Health
How young is too young? No such thing, apparently.
Specialist outlines impact of screen time on developing brains, from toddlerhood to teen years
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Campus & Community
Redefining what’s possible
President’s Innovation Challenge provides winners with support at the earliest stages of their ventures
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Arts & Culture
Hooking first-years on the arts and humanities
Professors rethink students’ introduction to humanities with nine new courses
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Campus & Community
Garber announces new initiatives to fight antisemitism, anti-Israeli bias
Actions come as task force releases full report
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Campus & Community
Garber announces new steps to combat bias against Arabs, Muslims, and Palestinians
Moves come amid release of final report from Task Force on Combating Anti-Muslim, Anti-Arab, and Anti-Palestinian Bias
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Campus & Community
Slave trade database moving to Harvard
Publicly accessible digital tool compiles four decades of scholarship on more than 30,000 voyages and 200,000 people.
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Campus & Community
New experiences at their fingertips
Course on tactile reading shows students ‘Why Braille Matters’
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Campus & Community
Harvard won’t comply with demands from Trump administration
Changes pushed by government ‘unmoored from the law,’ Garber says. ‘The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.’
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Nation & World
Leveraging social capital to defend worthy causes, people in need of representation
Legal scholar and Law School grad returns for student panel
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Nation & World
Envisioning a country with no Dept. of Education
Panelists weigh potential consequences of Trump plan to eliminate agency, transfer authority to states
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Campus & Community
Nonie Lesaux named HGSE dean
Scholar in literacy development and early learning has served as interim dean since July 2024
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Campus & Community
Panelists look at challenges, opportunities of GAI tools
New initiative advances conversations about role of AI
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Campus & Community
Maybe a teacher. Or maybe an education policy reformer.
Andrew Zonneveld believes public service is way to make a real difference in world
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Arts & Culture
How to read like a translator
Damion Searls ’92 talks process, sentence structure, and what makes a chair a chair
