About HGSE
Deans
Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) has had ten distinguished deans serve the School throughout its history. This website seeks to provide a concise profile of the accomplishments of each dean during their respective administration. The text is accompanied by an image of the dean's official portrait and information documenting the artist commissioned to produce the portrait. The artist profiles provide general biographical background as well as information about their artistic style and works. Faculty, staff, students, and guests of HGSE who attend meetings and special events in the stately Eliot-Lyman Room in Longfellow Hall will have noticed these "official" portraits honoring nine past HGSE deans adorning the walls.
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Paul Henry Hanus1906-1912 |
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Henry Wyman Holmes1920-1940 |
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Francis Trow Spaulding1940-1945 |
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Francis Keppel1948-1962 |
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Theodore R. Sizer1964-1972 |
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Paul N. Ylvisaker1972-1982 |
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Patricia Albjerg Graham1982-1991 |
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Jerome T. Murphy1992-2001 |
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Ellen Condliffe Lagemann2002-2005 |
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Kathleen McCartney2005-present |
Impact On Education
.jpg) | T.J. Martinez, Ed.M.'08"For kids [and] their parents who are in cycles of poverty, violence, and even abuse, [we see] as we come to know their stories. This [opportunity] is something that will break that." -- T.J. Martinez, Cristo Rey Jesuit School. |
 | Noel Gomez, Ed.M.'06Some have been incarcerated, others are one strike shy of life in prison. College was the last place any of them expected to end up. But it's the one place that Noel Gomez, Ed.M.'06, wants to keep them. |
.jpg) | Raygine DiAquoiShe was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and attended public schools until the sixth grade when her parents, wanting her to have every opportunity, sent her to the Hewitt School, a private school for girls on the Upper East Side. |
.jpg) | Shimon Waronker, Ed.D. CandidateWhen Waronker walked into J.H.S. 022 in the South Bronx, N.Y. to become its seventh principal in two years, he had reason to be worried. Instead, he was determined to take back the school, starting with the gangs. |
