Below, you will find appearances by members of the HGSE community, as well as HGSE research projects and initiatives, in the national press — both traditional and online.

While many online periodicals keep their stories freely available indefinitely, stories on other sites expire after a specified period of time, after which they can be retrieved by locating the story through the website’s archives, and sometimes paying a fee to do so. Where that is the periodical’s policy, we have provided a link to the periodical’s main page and the citation for the article so that interested readers may find the original article.

Harvard Prof for Govt Role in Education
The Times of India, February 1, 2012
“‘I believe that countries where the population is in millions like India, there should be a government oversight of educational institutes,’ said Howard Gardner, professor of education at Harvard University, at a press meet here.”

Measuring Effective Teaching
Harvard Gazette, January 30, 2012
“The lesson, [Professor Thomas] Kane said, directly applies to his work aimed at measuring effective teaching. ‘You shouldn’t be looking for the most super of the supermen, you should be looking for different measures that have different strengths.’”

The Case for a College ‘Shopping Sheet’ (or: Obama Reads ‘The Atlantic’!)
The Atlantic, January 30, 2012
“The first time I read a comprehensive plan to create a ‘shopping sheet’ … for college, it was back in 2010, when Bridget Terry Long, a Harvard University education economist, unveiled her proposal at a Center for American Progress conference for government to require every college to post a standard fact sheet…. Choosing a school would never be as easy as choosing a digital camera from Best Buy, Long conceded, but if we forced schools to make their specs as transparent as a Best Buy product, students might make better decisions.”

Visible Thinking Catches On in Metro Detroit
Detroit Free Press, January 30, 2012
“Ron Ritchhart, senior research associate at Project Zero at Harvard University, which developed visible thinking, said so much emphasis on the 10-year-old federal No Child Left Behind Act has had an impact in the classroom: There’s ‘less thinking going on as schools have been worried about the testing.’”

Education’s Future, Globally
Harvard Gazette, January 26, 2012
“Future generations of leaders in international education gathered at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) last week to explore solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges in the field.”

Parental Engagement Key to Student Success
Dubai Chronicle, January 23, 2012
“‘What we know from research is that students get better grades and have a more positive attitude and approach to learning new things to learning new things when parents engage in learning with them at home,’ said [Lecturer Karen] Mapp.”

Are After-school Math Centers Really Worth the Money?
Boston Globe, January 22, 2012
“While [Associate Professor Jon Star] didn’t see a radical change in their performance, he says that it’s hard to know what the long-term impact of the instruction will be, because ‘in math education we don’t often ask longitudinal questions.’ Star adds that there is no easy way for parents to evaluate these programs.”

The Cost of Open Courseware
The Boston Phoenix, January 20, 2012
“They should also take into account the research of Justin Reich, a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.”

Lady Gaga Launches ‘Born This Way’ Foundation With Harvard Graduate School of Education
The Huffington Post, January 19, 2012
“The pop icon announced on Thursday that she will launch her Born This Way Foundation (BTWF) at a kickoff event at Harvard University on February 29th. The foundation will ‘explore the best ways to reach youth and create a new culture of kindness, bravery, acceptance and empowerment.’”

Mayor Seeks to Overhaul Vocational High School
Boston Globe, January 17, 2012
“‘If we can elevate Madison Park to its potential, we’re going to help many young people to succeed in the job market,’ said William Symonds, director of the Pathways to Prosperity Project at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, who led a team of two dozen state and national specialists that examined Madison Park. ‘Let’s not forget that many of these students are living in poverty right now. We’re offering them a ladder out of poverty.”

Yardsticks Vary by Nation in Calling Education to Account
Education Week, January 12, 2012
“Daniel Koretz, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, laments the intense ‘weight and faith given to test scores’ in the United States. ’You generally don’t find people [in other countries] saying, “We’re going to impose a 90-minute math exam and we’re going to evaluate a school based on that,”‘” he says.

Boston Teacher ‘Residents’ Seen Outpacing Peers Later in Career
Education Week, January 11, 2012
“‘We think this provides reliable evidence on the effectiveness of BTR graduates to date,’” said Martin R. West, an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and one of four scholars who conducted the study. ‘The question is whether we can generalize based on those results to BTR graduates who will later have four to five years of experience, much less to graduates of other residency programs and other settings.’”

A Hug to Save Lifetime of Pain 
New Straits Times, January 10, 2012
“‘You can modify behaviour later, but you can’t rewire disrupted brain circuits,’ notes Jack Shonkoff, a Harvard pediatrician who has been a leader in this field.”

Living Legends: An Interview With Howard Gardner, Part I, Part II
Huffington Post, January 9 and 11, 2012
“On Christmas Eve 2011, I came up with the idea of developing an interview series entitled ‘Living Legends,’ to spotlight people who are considered to be at the avant garde of their respective fields. Developing the concept was easy, but I couldn’t decide who to ask to do the first interview. After many days of going back and forth, I decided that Howard Gardner was the logical choice.”

No Disabled Student Left Behind
Boston Herald, January 8, 2012
“We have made major strides over the past decades in improving educational levels of students with disabilities. Nationally, nearly 70 percent of students with disabilities obtain a high school diploma and only 20 percent drop out. Ten years ago, only half graduated from high school and 40 percent dropped out. In Massachusetts, these improvements are not limited to graduation, but have also resulted in higher post-secondary education and employment for these students,” writes Professor Thomas Hehir.

Study: Once-a-Year Teacher Evaluations Not Enough
Associated Press, January 6, 2012
“Those surveys, also being piloted by the foundation in school districts around the nation, are not popularity contests, [Professor Thomas] Kane said. They focus on class experiences and ask students to talk about things like whether they are being challenged and engaged.”