Monthly Archives: June 2008

HFRP Director Testifies Before House Committee on Education and Labor

By admin 06/30/2008 01:28 pm | Add a Comment

Heather Weiss, founder and director of Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, was one of five witnesses to testify before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor at the June 11 hearing on House Resolution 243, Education Begins at Home Act (EBAH) Read More…

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Doctoral Student Named NAEd Fellow

By admin 06/27/2008 01:30 pm | Add a Comment

HGSE doctoral student Amy Crosson was recently named a 2008 Adolescent Literacy Predoctoral Fellow for The National Academy of Education (NAEd), an organization dedicated to the highest quality education research and its use in policy formulation and practice. Read More…

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The Learning Brain: Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Ed.M.’98, Ed.D.’05

By admin 06/25/2008 01:56 pm | 1 Comment

Long before Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Ed.M.’98, Ed.D.’05, was researching the brain and helping Professor Kurt Fischer to map out the Mind, Brain, and Education Program, she worked as a seventh grade science teacher in Randolph, Mass. Read More…

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Professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Named AAPSS Fellow

By admin 06/13/2008 02:10 pm | 1 Comment

The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) named Professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot the 2008 Margaret Mead Fellow at a ceremony at the University of Pennsylvania on May 8. Read More…

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Harvard Education Letter Wins Top Honors for Second Consecutive Year

By admin 06/13/2008 02:08 pm | Add a Comment

The Harvard Education Letter was recently named Best Overall Newsletter in the adult learning category by the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) for the second consecutive year. Read More…

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Charter School Students DREAM of Harvard

By admin 06/13/2008 02:02 pm | Add a Comment

The students were in Cambridge as part of a four-day New England college tour that was initiated by Dean Kathleen McCartney’s visit to Democracy Prep last spring, and organized by the school’s founding principal, Seth Andrew, Ed.M.’02. Read More…

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Five Teachers Receive Conant Fellowship

By Jill Anderson 06/10/2008 02:29 pm | 1 Comment

On Monday, June 9, the Harvard Graduate School of Education presented five outstanding educators from the Boston and Cambridge public school systems with James Bryant Conant Fellowships. Each of the recipients will receive one year of study at the Ed School. Read More…

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Pan Receives Morningstar Award

By Jill Anderson 06/05/2008 02:43 pm | Add a Comment

Lecturer Barbara Alexander Pan embodies what all HGSE faculty should be: “thoughtful and intelligent researcher and teacher, and a concerned member of the community who never hesitates to offer practical assistance and advice,” said one student. Read More…

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Speakers Inspire at the HGSE Convocation Ceremony

By Jill Anderson 06/05/2008 02:39 pm | 2 Comments

At yesterday’s Harvard Graduate School of Education convocation ceremony in Radcliffe Yard, speakers from the HGSE community challenged the graduating class of 2008 to change education and to find people to make a difference in teaching and learning across cities around the world. Read More…

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