Featured series 
Tag: Education
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Campus & Community
Minds in the making
The Harvard Achievement Support Initiative is arming teachers, parents, and community partners with techniques and resources that boost student achievement.
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Nation & World
Where men have more than one wife
Radcliffe researcher explores the connection between cultures where men have more than one wife and increased violence.
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Arts & Culture
Learning the streets, scene by scene
The acclaimed TV series “The Wire” is at the center of “HBO’s The Wire and Its Contribution to Understanding Urban Inequality,” a new course aimed at teaching Harvard undergraduates about inner-city life.
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Arts & Culture
Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning
Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government Peterson traces American public schools through their reformers, and addresses a new era of virtual learning in which families have greater choice and control over their children’s education than ever.
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Campus & Community
Edmond J. Safra graduate fellowships in ethics 2011-12
Applications are invited from graduate students who are writing dissertations or are engaged in major research on topics in practical ethics, especially ethical issues in architecture, business, education, government, law, medicine, public health, public policy, and religion.
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Arts & Culture
How to get happy
Former Harvard President Derek Bok and his wife Sissela, a Harvard fellow, discussed their recent books on happiness in a discussion at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Campus & Community
Education scholar Gerald Lesser, 84
Gerald Lesser, Charles Bigelow Professor of Education and Developmental Psychology Emeritus at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), died on Sept. 23 at the age of 84.
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Campus & Community
Askwith Forum offers exciting guests, talks this season
The schedule for the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Askwith Forum features an exciting array of guest speakers — from Anne Sweeney of Disney Media Networks, to “Waiting for ‘Superman’” filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, and more.
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Campus & Community
Strong finish
More than 100 Harvard undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff ran in the annual Brian J. Honan 5K on Sept. 12.
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Nation & World
A new program to shake up education
The first class of students in Harvard’s newest doctoral program gets ready to help transform public schools in America.
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Campus & Community
Easy blend of old and new
A group from the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement is taught Scratch, a basic programming tool, by teaching fellows and course assistants from CS50: “Introduction to Computer Science I,” a popular Harvard course taught by David Malan.
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Nation & World
Brain gain
A social scientist looks at how a patient China is reversing brain drain to the West.
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Nation & World
The mystique of merit pay
Scholars, educators, and politicians gathered for a two-day seminar at Harvard Kennedy School to explore the complicated issue of performance pay in the nation’s public schools.
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Campus & Community
Text of Justice David Souter’s speech
Harvard Commencement remarks, as delivered by Justice David H. Souter, May 27, 2010.
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Campus & Community
Parting words
We usually think of commencement as college’s end, but the word actually means the beginning, since everyday life is what follows. In this video, seven renowned Harvard instructors give their takeaway advice on how to thrive in the wider world, how to chart a fulfilling future, and how to give back along the way.
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Campus & Community
When the past is present
Marcus Briggs-Cloud believes native language is what connects communities. His time at the Divinity School has helped him strengthen that bridge.
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Nation & World
Teaching beyond the tests
A panel explores the effects of high-stakes testing, and suggests new measurements of achievement are needed.
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Campus & Community
Monica Higgins named professor of education at HGSE
Associate Professor Monica Higgins has been promoted to full professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). Higgins’ expertise is focused on areas of leadership development and organizational change, and her work straddles higher education and urban public schools.
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Campus & Community
Five from Harvard win DCPS case competition
The District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) has announced that a team of five Harvard graduate students were named the 2010 winners of The Urban Education Redesign Challenge, for their public engagement and mobilization strategy for DCPS.
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Nation & World
Reducing malnutrition
The world is going to fall well short of achieving the Millennium Development Goals to reduce malnutrition, and child and maternal mortality, by 2015.
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Campus & Community
Harvard-based pay-for-study experiment shows students incentivized to actions, not results
A program that paid city students if they got higher test scores earned an F, a new study shows.
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Nation & World
Schools may flunk testing
During a presentation at a Harvard Graduate School of Education Askwith Forum Diane Ravitch, former proponent of educational testing, told the audience that the movement has gone too far, including punishing schools for unrealistic expectations.
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Nation & World
What Haiti needs … now
Former Haiti Prime Minister Michèle Pierre-Louis said shelter, jobs, and education are the top priorities in the earthquake-ravaged nation.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard Graduate School of Education
Harvard University students have launched the first collegiate Sarah Jane Brain Club, to explore issues surrounding pediatric traumatic brain injury, at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Nation & World
Classic college vs. online learning
Two top players in the field of higher education explored two almost polar approaches to learning during a discussion at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Campus & Community
PBHA vies for $1 million award
The good deeds of Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) are being handsomely rewarded through a Facebook contest grant, and there may be more assistance in the wings.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard Graduate School of Education
A group of students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) will give the gift of literacy this holiday season while on a service-learning trip to Caluco, El Salvador.
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Arts & Culture
Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood
Tatar plumbs the lore and enchantment of children’s stories, revealing their power to ensnare imaginations, and highlights the magic of reading and what children take from it.
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Nation & World
Harvard, University of Johannesburg join forces
Education is a force for liberation, President Drew Faust told an audience Thursday (Nov. 26) at the University of Johannesburg at Soweto, where she announced that Harvard and the host university were developing an initiative to train school principals in some of South Africa’s most desperate regions.
