HGSE in the Media

February 2007

Schools Cry Out for Leadership Material
"At Harvard, 12 faculty members from Harvard Business School and Harvard Graduate School of Education launched the Public Education Leadership Program. The aim was to improve the administrative management and the educational results of nine urban school systems, including Boston, Chicago and San Francisco." (Financial Times, 2/26/07)

Harvard's Historic Choice
"Howard Gardner, a professor of education at Harvard, says Ms. Faust was chosen in part to help smooth over relations between the Harvard Corporation and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which he says was 'estranged not only from President Summers but from the general mission of the corporation.'" (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2/23/07. Registration required.)

Speakers at Ed School Say it Takes a Community to Educate a Child
"By 12th grade, black students in the United States are four years behind their white counterparts in reading and math scores, according to national statistics that also show Hispanic students falling behind at a similar rate." (Harvard University Gazette, 2/22/07)

Education's 'Grand Departure'
Professor Tom Payzant and Charles B. Reed, chancellor of the California State University system, co-wrote this letter to the editor regarding the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, of which they are both members. (Education Week, 2/21/07. Free registration required.)

Lifeline to Low-Income Students
"We have all this financial aid, but it doesn't seem to be reaching the people who need it most." – Associate Professor Bridget Terry Long (Inside Higher Ed, 2/20/07)

Traditional Black Marriage in Trouble?
"When black men and women do connect, there are not enough structured programs to help keep their relationships together" – Professor Charles V. Willie (The Middletown Journal, 2/15/07)

Hamilton Project Releases New Papers on College Access
"In another forthcoming paper for the project, Dr. Thomas Kane, a professor of education and economics at Harvard, suggests having college repayments automatically adjust for changes in income over time, providing a safety valve to ease the burden of repayment on borrowers who have particularly low incomes in a given year." (Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 2/15/07)

Profs Claim the Threat of Outsourcing is Overblown
"What we're seeing is a huge impact of computerization and cheap labor on the lower middle of the job market." – Professor Richard Murnane (The Boston Herald, 2/12/07)

'Historic day': Harvard Taps Woman for Top Post
"Drew Faust has all the qualities Harvard needs -- a sharp analytic mind, a broad university-wide perspective, outstanding people skills and a deft administrative style that enables her to get things done." – Professor Judith Singer (USA Today, 2/12/07)

Harvard to Name First Female President
"She is not afraid to say what she thinks and to follow through on it." – Professor Howard Gardner (MSNBC.com, 2/10/07)

Harvard Professor Criticizes Education Policy
"I worry about the kind of social inequalities we've generated by not working on the problems of local schools." – Professor Richard Elmore (The Badger Herald, 2/8/07)

Leadership at Harvard
An editorial by Professor Howard Gardner's about the new leadership at Harvard University. (Harvard Crimson, 2/8/07)

Execs Say Family, Not Feds, Should Police Internet
"Most of us would prefer not to have the law intrude in the new digital media.... If the Internet doesn't self-police, it will happen through external forces... with results that none of us will like." – Professor Howard Gardner (Media Daily,2/7/07)

'All Students Deserve Quality Education'
"[Professor Martha Stone Wiske] has been teaching and conducting collaborative projects with schools for a quarter of a century. Wiske was in India recently to discuss the skills required by students in the 21st century and how schools can support their development." (The Times of India, 2/5/07)

Getting from Oranges to Apples
"When you're little, your mind changes pretty readily, even if nobody pushes it. We are natural mind-changing entities until we are 10 or so. But as we get older and have acquired more formal and informal knowledge, then it's very, very hard to change our minds." – Professor Howard Gardner (CIO, 2/3/07)

'Augmented Reality' Helps Kids Learn
The Handheld Augmented Reality Project (HARP) arose from "trying to think about where society is going, what students will need, what the educational properties of these devices are, and how we can design something interesting with these devices." – Professor Christopher Dede (eSchool News online, 1/31/07)

AFT No Longer a Major Player in Reform Arena
"Influential people like Mooney, Urbanski, and Sundin were very powerful at the time that Al Shanker was president. There was a shared influence that they had, both in their local districts and nationally.... That is missing today, even with the continued presence of thoughtful and responsive local leaders." – Professor Susan Moore Johnson (Education Week, 1/31/07. Free registration required.)