Featured series 
Tag: Education
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Campus & Community
At the heart of the Science and Engineering Complex, a library named for a trailblazing alumna
Gift from the Troper Wojcicki Foundation honors the late technology executive Susan Wojcicki
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Nation & World
Breyer makes case for civic education
Retired SCOTUS justice says path to less polarization runs through the classroom
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Campus & Community
Harvard deepens commitment to HBCUs with $1.05 million grant
The award, through the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative, will strengthen research capacity at 15 schools
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Nation & World
‘This is not about Harvard. It is about higher education.’
Garber discusses threat to university-government partnership, AI, fighting bias on campus in talk at 92NY
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Campus & Community
What makes a good student
Inner drive, integrity, open-mindedness among qualities highlighted by faculty
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Science & Tech
‘Vibe coding’ may offer insight into our AI future
Learning tech expert says it may take over writing software. Our job? Imagine possibilities, articulate what we want, evaluate.
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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
