Featured series 
Tag: Education
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Campus & Community
With revamped master’s program, School of Education faces fresh challenges
When the Harvard Graduate School of Education welcomes its Class of 2022, it will usher in a newly redesigned, and newly customizable program of study.
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Nation & World
Lessons from teaching in COVID times
“Teaching and Learning at Harvard: Looking Back, Looking Forward” has Harvard deans looking at achievements and challenges from the past year.
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Nation & World
K-12 education appears on downward slide as pandemic continues
U.S. K-12 schools are struggling through a difficult school year, with a significant number of children who are learning remotely becoming chronically absent, a Harvard education experts said Tuesday.
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Campus & Community
Easing children’s COVID-19 anxieties
Recent Harvard grads created an educational website featuring a South Asian protagonist for children to assuage worries and answer questions.
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Campus & Community
Biologist Rob Lue, founding HarvardX faculty director, dies at 56
Rob Lue was professor of the practice in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, founding faculty director of HarvardX, faculty director of the Harvard Ed Portal, Richard L. Menschel Faculty Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, UNESCO Chair on Life Sciences and Social Innovation, and faculty director and principal investigator…
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Health
Is go-slow schools’ reopening failing kids?
Harvard Chan School’s Joseph Allen gives America an “F” on school reopening efforts, and says we’re in danger of losing thousands of virtual dropouts and wasting mild late summer/early autumn weather we could use to boost in-person learning.
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Campus & Community
An uncertain financial road ahead
The Gazette spoke with Harvard Vice President for Finances Thomas J. Hollister about FY20 and a forecast for FY21. He also outlined the three overriding financial principles the University will maintain during the pandemic.
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Nation & World
Insights into online learning
Pioneering online-learning initiative edX offers guidance and support as colleges sort out fall plans.
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Science & Tech
This is what a scientist looks like
Project aims to give young students real-life STEM role models
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Campus & Community
Another disappointment for MOOCs
A new study looking at the efficacy of behavioral interventions for student involvement in online courses offers some suggestions on the road forward.
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Nation & World
The collective effort
Harvard students, alumni, faculty, and staff from the nationwide “To Serve Better” project weigh in on how coronavirus is affecting their corner of the country, and the work they do.
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Campus & Community
Advice to students: Take risks and build courage
Jacob Barandes encourages students to follow interests, ask questions, and do it their way to get the most out of their education.
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Science & Tech
Lessons in learning
Study shows students in ‘active learning’ classrooms learn more than they think
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Nation & World
Negative ‘Impact’ on learning
New research from Assistant Professor in Sociology Joscha Legewie links the aggressive policing of New York City’s Operation Impact with lower test scores for African American boys.
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Campus & Community
In San Diego, Bacow stresses learning, New teaches poetry
Harvard President Larry Bacow talked with alumni and discussed the power of higher education with high school students in San Diego as he continued his visits around the country.
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Campus & Community
Harvard program gets high marks
In a recent survey of parents who have completed the Harvard Mind Matters program offered in Cambridge and Boston schools, more than 98 percent were pleased with the materials and outcome.
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Campus & Community
Spirit of inquiry
Harvard Medical School’s Benyam Kinde, Ph.D. ’16, M.D., ’18, led investigations that uncovered a novel role of the MECP2 protein — which when mutated leads to the devastating neurodevelopmental disorder Rett syndrome — in regulating gene expression in the developing brain.
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Campus & Community
Ruiz found support at Medical School
The eldest of three children in a Mexican-American family in Texas, Jessica Ruiz, M.D. ’18, was one of only 14 members of the Class of 2018 who received the M.D. degree with Honors in a Special Field (magna cum laude).
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Science & Tech
Easing the way for students to ‘do’ science
Robert Lue, principal investigator for the development of an online learning platform called LabXchange, aims to provide a virtual laboratory experience and social community for biology students.
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Health
Harvard program hears from Sirleaf on putting education first
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf shared her experiences as president of Liberia in a session of the Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program.
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Nation & World
Urging a response to ‘deaths of despair’
Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton and University College London epidemiologist Michael Marmot spoke at Harvard on the dangers and drivers of inequality.
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Campus & Community
Reach Every Reader targets early literacy crisis
With a $30 million grant from Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, the Harvard Graduate School of Education and MIT’s Integrated Learning Initiative will launch Reach Every Reader, which combines cutting-edge education and neuroscience research to help end the childhood literacy crisis.
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Campus & Community
Opening the gates, closing the education gap
In Washington, D.C., gathering, Faust and faculty discuss closing the education gap through equity.
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Work & Economy
Golden age for team players
Workers with strong social skills are increasingly valuable to employers, according to a new analysis by Harvard education economist.
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Nation & World
To improve education, reallocate funds, DeVos urges
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos argued in favor of more school choice as a remedy for the nation’s beleaguered public education system during a protest-marked forum at the Harvard Kennedy School Thursday evening.
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Science & Tech
Research may provide the tools to create better schools
Harvard and MIT study reveals that cognitive science field experiments are critical to understanding human learning and education.
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Nation & World
Harvard professor creates a course for the world
In this edition of EdCast, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Fernando Reimers gives insight into a curriculum designed to empower all citizens of the world through his new book, “Empowering Global Citizens: A World Course.”
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Nation & World
The quest to create an education system that works for all kids
Educators came to the Harvard Graduate School of Education on Tuesday for the kickoff of the Education Redesign Lab’s By All Means initiative, which will work closely in the field with six cities to tackle early childhood challenges.
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Campus & Community
Ed School launches major early childhood initiative
The Harvard Graduate School of Education received the largest gift in its history from the Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation to focus on advancing early childhood education, which will distinguish HGSE as a national leader for work in this field.
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Campus & Community
Project Teach shows youngsters what’s possible
Project Teach brings local middle-school students to Harvard’s campus to help them learn about the college experience and explore their options.
