Tag: Literacy

  • Science & Tech

    Learning apps for parents that help kids

    Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers Joe Blatt and Meredith Rowe conducted a study that developed learning apps to create foundations for literacy in young children.

    Joe Blatt and Meredith Rowe
  • 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.

  • Arts & Culture

    Art and the immigrants

    Through an innovative program, immigrants explore the Harvard Art Museums’ galleries, polishing their English skills and learning lessons in American democracy.

  • Campus & Community

    Aid groups that make a difference

    The Harvard Community Gifts Giving Fair brought to campus many local organizations whose missions are helping those in need.

  • Campus & Community

    Faust emphasizes public service

    Concluding a year of expanded volunteer efforts at Harvard, president announces new fellowships that will allow students to do well by doing good.

  • Nation & World

    A Salvadoran snapshot

    An HGSE student project over January break leads young students to create photographic art, along with exhibits in two countries.

  • 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.

  • Campus & Community

    University offers staff a bridge to somewhere

    Melani Bizarria cries when she talks about Harvard’s Bridge to Learning and Literacy Program. “I need to say thank you so much for the opportunity,” says Bizarria after a recent English class, her eyes welling up with tears. “I’m trying to do my best, but I don’t have words to explain my feelings. I am…

  • Arts & Culture

    Probing an unlikely friendship

    Theirs was an unlikely friendship. One man was a black abolitionist, orator, and journalist who had been a slave from Maryland, the other a white politician from the backwoods of Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois.

  • Nation & World

    Chall Lecture focuses on the future of literacy achievement gap

    Research shows that there have been positive trends in literacy achievement in the past 25 years. These gains, however, have not included a significant closing of the gaps between racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups, a fact that represents a serious issue in education today.

  • Nation & World

    ‘A good start’

    Late in January, a delegation from Chile visited Harvard to discuss “Un Buen Comienzo” (“A Good Start”), an early childhood education program undertaken in 2006 by the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), Harvard Medical School (HMS), and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), with the Chilean Ministries of Education and Health…

  • Nation & World

    HGSE sponsors alumni of color conference

    In a crowded banquet hall at the Cambridge Center Marriott, William Demmert Jr. Ed.D.’73 — a Tlingit who grew up in southeast Alaska — finished up a detailed lecture on Native American languages, culture, and early childhood education. And as soon as the talk ended, the 72-year-old writer and researcher was on the crowded dance…