Monthly Archives: June 2009

New Project Zero Study Highlights Importance of Arts Educators

By admin 06/30/2009 12:20 pm | 7 Comments

Understanding the challenge of creating and sustaining high quality formal arts learning experiences for K-12 youth, inside and outside of school is the focus of a new report from Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Read More…

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Technology and Youth: A Remix that is Changing the Education Landscape

By Maria Fusaro 06/23/2009 01:42 pm | 11 Comments

Helen Haste offers some provocative views of the 21st century learner–and argues that education must change to help students thrive in this highly technological environment. Read More…

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Professor Kane Comments on Mayor Menino’s Charter School Initiative

By News editor 06/19/2009 09:47 am | 2 Comments

Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Thomas Kane reacts to Mayor Menino’s recent proposal to create several city-run charter schools. Read More…

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Five Local Educators Awarded Conant Fellowships

By News editor 06/17/2009 10:49 am | Add a Comment

On Tuesday, June 16, the Harvard Graduate School of Education presented five outstanding educators from the Boston and Cambridge public school systems with James Bryant Conant Fellowships. Read More…

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Harvard Graduate School of Education Votes Open Access Policy

By News editor 06/16/2009 12:31 pm | 9 Comments

The faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education voted overwhelmingly at its last faculty meeting to allow the university to make all faculty members’ scholarly articles publicly available online. Read More…

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Ferguson Appointed Senior Lecturer at Ed School

By News editor 06/12/2009 09:18 am | 1 Comment

Ronald Ferguson, an expert in education and economic development, has been appointed senior lecturer on education and public policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education effective July 1, 2009. Read More…

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Out in Front: Patricia Hill Collins, M.A.T.’70

By Amy Magin Wong 06/10/2009 11:23 am | Add a Comment

Taking the helm of the American Sociological Association (ASA) to become its 100th president, Patricia Hill Collins, M.A.T.’70, says that her leadership motto is to make herself “expendable.” Read More…

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Helping Schools Work: Ledyard McFadden, Ed.M.’93

By Amanda Dagg 06/10/2009 11:16 am | Add a Comment

In 1998, Ledyard McFadden followed friends’ advice and started SchoolWorks, an educational consulting firm in Beverly, Mass. Read More…

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A Question of Education: Rafael Martinez, Ed.M.’05

By Lory Hough 06/10/2009 11:04 am | 1 Comment

Question everything. That is one of the lasting lessons that Rafael Martinez, Ed.M.’05, took away from Professor Fernando Reimers, Ed.M.’84, Ed.D.’88, while he was a student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Read More…

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