Featured series 
Tag: Education
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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
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Campus & Community
Harvard expands financial aid
New effort ensures that more undergraduates, especially from middle-income families, will receive support
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Campus & Community
It’s going to get even harder to write (or at least type) like Sylvia Plath
Cambridge Typewriter, one of few shops left to buy, repair vintage machines, prepares to close doors after more than half a century
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Nation & World
Johnny can read. Jane can read. But they may not fully comprehend.
Ed School panel looks at how to reverse declining scores on recent ‘Nation’s Report Card’
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Nation & World
We’re already forgetting what 2020 was like
5 years later, sociologist urges us to confront lessons from pandemic
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Campus & Community
Student-led projects tackle campus divisions
Presidential initiative backs efforts to encourage, facilitate constructive dialogue
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Campus & Community
New era for the Bok Center
Director shares vision for innovative teaching and learning
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Campus & Community
With Summer Youth Employment program, Harvard sees ‘an infrastructure for opportunity’
Career pathway programs help youth, veterans, Cambridge, and Greater Boston
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Campus & Community
DCE celebrates 50 years of innovation and impact
Yearlong fete kicks off with a look at the future of continuing education
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Nation & World
U.S. students need to start showing up
Detailing latest recovery scorecard, Ed School researcher urges broader action to reduce absenteeism, sharper focus on targeted catch-up efforts
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Nation & World
Turns out pandemic wasn’t only cause for student setbacks
Education policy expert cites chronic absenteeism, softening of test accountability by states, other issues for poor marks in ‘Nation’s Report Card’
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Arts & Culture
Why are so many novels set at Harvard?
Beth Blum notes campus is beautiful, romantic setting that lends itself to exploring collision of ideals, reality
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Nation & World
What makes a good teacher?
One skill — arguably the most important for educators — is also hardest to define
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Nation & World
Unfuzzy math: U.S. needs to do better
Ed School expert has some ideas, including a rethink of homework bans, after ‘discouraging’ results
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Nation & World
Seeing schools as ‘laboratories of democracy’
Encounters with different perspectives are a key part of the learning experience, panelists say
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Arts & Culture
12 centuries of Ukrainian literature in 12 weeks?
Bohdan Tokarskyi, new assistant professor, says he’s up to the challenge
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Nation & World
How can higher ed make democracy better?
Kennedy School panel says it’s a combination of knowledge — and skills
