Featured series 
Tag: Education
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Nation & World
How high school shapes future success
Study associates 2 factors with better long-term outcomes, including higher earnings at age 30
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Science & Tech
Aramont Fellowships give scientists freedom to concentrate on high-risk, high-reward research
Renewed gift significantly expands the impact of early-career support
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Campus & Community
Ruth J. Simmons to receive Radcliffe Medal
Recognized for her many roles upholding and advancing foundational ideals of higher education
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Nation & World
Want better schools? It’s all up to states.
Education scholar Thomas Kane says that’s lesson of recent ‘Southern Surge’ in test scores
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Arts & Culture
Where have all the public intellectuals gone?
Panel discusses evolving tradition in U.S. due to social, economic shifts, and need for such thinkers in democratic cultures
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Campus & Community
Wonder served him well
Curiosity ignited Alan Garber’s sense of purpose. Classmates, mentors, and patients helped deepen it.
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Nation & World
How to end polarization? Schools may be best hope.
Journalist blends history, on-the-ground reporting, finds answer may be civic education that goes far beyond 3 branches of government
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Science & Tech
Preserving learning in the age of AI shortcuts
In podcast, teachers talk about how they’re using technology to supercharge critical thinking rather than replace it
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Nation & World
How academia can help America heal
First step, says columnist David Brooks, is to understand its role in the problem
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Campus & Community
Funding innovative approaches to belonging
Supported by grants from the Culture Lab, four projects aim to strengthen belonging through listening, discussion, art, and representation
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Campus & Community
Alumni rally to support next generation of researchers
FAS launches match to secure $100M for Ph.D.s
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Nation & World
How to help lift slumping American math scores
Scholars see solutions in classroom creativity, higher teacher pay — and attendance
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Nation & World
‘Gifted’
Rooted in values, scorned as elitist, and now, in the age of AI, about to go extinct?
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Arts & Culture
When Cambridge was a ‘tiny Cuba’
125 years ago, a Harvard expedition drew 1,200 Cuban educators to class
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Campus & Community
New institute to strengthen fundamental physics research, collaboration
Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics made possible by $20 million gift from the Leinweber Foundation
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Campus & Community
5 from Harvard named Marshall Scholars
Awards for 4 students, 1 alumna — more than any other institution — support graduate studies in the United Kingdom
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Health
The problem with the school smartphone debate
Study finds most districts already regulate devices. Is the real issue enforcement?
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Nation & World
What’s working, not on front lines of AI in classroom
Tech, education experts share new initiatives on learner profiles, making STEM more accessible, ‘microschool’ experiments
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Campus & Community
‘Our students are seeking not just to coexist, but to understand’
8 projects win Building Bridges grants to spark constructive dialogue on campus
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Nation & World
How AI is disrupting classroom, curriculum at community colleges
Conference examines ways to deal with unique vocational, educational challenges
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Nation & World
Girls fell further behind in math during, after pandemic
Leading sociologist says emotional, family, social disruptions likelier cause than school closures
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Nation & World
Steven Pinker wants to hear your ideas – even the bad ones
Psychologist takes issue with cancel culture in ‘common knowledge’ conversation at the IOP
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Campus & Community
Building momentum on open inquiry
Schools implement recommendations to foster more, better conversations on tough topics around campus
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Science & Tech
Is AI dulling our minds?
Experts weigh in on whether tech poses threat to critical thinking, pointing to cautionary tales in use of other cognitive labor tools
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Nation & World
Princeton leader defends campus free speech efforts amid ‘civic crisis’
Eisgruber, author of ‘Terms of Respect,’ says campus tensions reflect wider U.S. divisions
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Campus & Community
Four years, three words
Seniors encapsulate how they’ve changed since arriving at Harvard
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Campus & Community
Leading FAS in period of major challenges, opportunity for change
Hopi Hoekstra details what she’s learned in first two years as dean, her moves to strengthen funding, academics, admissions, and expand aid
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Campus & Community
Pritzker sees an institution meeting the moment
Senior fellow stresses core principles, Corporation engagement, constructive dialogue as University navigates ‘period of severe challenge’
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Campus & Community
Harvard appoints four University Professors
Dulac, Feldman, Goldin, and Vafa honored with highest faculty distinction
