Tag: Fernando Reimers

  • Nation & World

    Improving education globally

    Fernando Reimers’ new book, “One Student at a Time,” follows graduates from the Graduate School of Education’s International Policy Program and analyzes the impact they make, the challenges they face, and the lessons they learn and teach as they try to improve educational opportunity around the world.

    5 minutes
  • 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.”

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Reconnecting on education

    Panelists across Harvard gather to consider how education should and will affect tomorrow’s global challenges.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Making hay while sun shines

    Students at HGSE are hard at work building new companies they hope will someday transform learning and young lives.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Changing the world, in under 9 minutes

    The inaugural event “One Harvard: Lectures that Last” featured short talks by a dozen speakers representing Harvard’s graduate and professional Schools. The session was designed to reveal the crosscurrents of innovation that can flow from discipline to discipline, and to expose students to fresh ideas.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Education’s future, globally

    Students in Harvard’s Graduate School of Education convened last week to examine how to address some of the world’s educational challenges.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    High-tech tools for change

    Education leaders and entrepreneurs from around the world gathered at Harvard for the Advanced Leadership Initiative’s three-day think tank on education and technological innovation.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Giving children ‘Room to Read’

    Building on the library model developed by industrialist Andrew Carnegie in the late 1800s, philanthropist John Wood and his nonprofit, Room to Read, are aiding education in the developing world.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Virtually connected

    Making good use of the Web, students from the Harvard Graduate School of Education are using virtual internships to gain valuable experience without leaving home.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    International Education Program fetes 10th anniversary

    A politician intends to revolutionize the educational system in Kenya. A husband-and-wife team offers professional development to teachers to reduce social violence, develop civic competencies, and help eradicate poverty in Mexico. A student hopes to work on international educational reform.

    5 minutes