Featured series 
Tag: Education
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Work & Economy
Lawrence Katz named Citation Laureate
Economist’s findings have garnered nearly 26,000 citations across 72 publications
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Nation & World
What’s driving decline in U.S. literacy rates?
In podcast, experts discuss why learning to love to read again may be key to reversing trend
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Science & Tech
How AI could radically change schools by 2050
In Ed School panel, Howard Gardner says tech could make ‘most cognitive aspects of mind’ optional for humans
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Campus & Community
Deming brings a researcher’s perspective to leadership role
New dean of Harvard College discusses academics, AI, and campus life
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Science & Tech
Our viral vocabulary
Adam Aleksic — aka the ‘Etymology Nerd’ — discusses how social media algorithms are transforming language
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Campus & Community
‘We mark your belonging here’
Garber urges Class of 2029 to teach, learn from one another, reject viewing world in simple binaries
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Health
Analysts highlight a school-sized gap in mental health screening
Less than a third conduct screenings, according to survey of more than 1,000 principals
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Nation & World
Global concerns rising about erosion of academic freedom
New paper suggests threats are more widespread, less obvious than some might think
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Arts & Culture
Reading like it’s 1989
Report on classroom literature shows staying power for ‘Gatsby,’ ‘Of Mice and Men,’ other classics. Time to move on?
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Health
Keeping kids safe in extreme heat
Experts outline threats to childhood development, school challenges, play-time risks
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Science & Tech
How do math, reading skills overlap? Researchers were closing in on answers.
Grant terminated at critical point of ambitious study following students for five years
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Science & Tech
Taking a second look at executive function
New study suggests what has long been considered innate aspect of human cognition may be more a matter of schooling
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Campus & Community
Harvard seeks restoration of research funds
University argues Trump administration violated free speech rights, ignored procedural provisions in federal court hearing
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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
