HGSE in the Media
November 2008
State's College Commitment Hanging in the Balance
"It has always puzzled me why the percentage that was set back (in the 1960s) has been carried until today. I would have thought a higher percentage (of admissions) would make sense for California." - Professor Thomas Kane (Contra Costa Times, 11/22/08)
Project Probes Digital Media's Effect on Ethics
"Even though many young people may not be ready to participate in the wider communities that digital media open up to them, there is no controlling information about yourself or others that gets posted." - Professor Howard Gardner (Education Week, 11/19/08. Registration required.)
It May Be a Good Job, but Is It ‘Good Work’?
"Take teachers in American inner cities. They may be good technically and feel deeply about their responsibility to their students. But if they don’t find joy in their work, they burn out; it’s just too hard. You have to build into hard jobs like that supports and rewards, so that what was initially meaningful and engaging will continue to be so." - Professor Howard Gardner (The New York Times, 11/15/08)
Teaching and Testing the Skills That Matter Most
"A commission composed of some of the country’s leading college-admissions officers is recommending that universities shift from a reliance on SAT and ACT scores and instead use entrance exams that test the academic content taught in high schools." - Tony Wagner, codirector of Change Leadership Group (Education Week, 11/12/08. Registration required.)
Schools Enlisting Defense Industry to Boost STEM
"Mentoring programs where company experts are working with kids, they’re not scalable. There are only so many experts and only so much time the experts have." - Professor Chris Dede (Education Week, 11/12/08. Registration required.)
Atlanta's Own 'Hall' Of Famer
"Atlanta is one of two unsung urban districts in the nation for what they've done on reform. Atlanta came from nowhere. They are like that small college team every year in the NCAA [basketball tournament] that comes out of nowhere to make it to the Final Four." - Professor Robert Peterkin (Education Week, 11/10/08. Registration required.)
Assessing '21st-Century Skills' Won't Be Easy, Paper Says
"One of the biggest barriers to widespread teaching and assessment of 21st-century skills is the idea that children must learn ‘basic skills’ before progressing to more-complex, higher-order skills, said Christopher Dede, a professor in learning technologies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education." (Education Week, 11/10/08. Registration required.)
A Taste of Success
"Back in 1975, when I was coming out of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, I worked in a summer camp in Ossipee, N.H., for kids with the absolute toughest problems: emotionally disturbed kids, autistic kids, oppositional ADHD kids, kids that everyone — even their parents — had given up on." - Geoffrey Canada, Ed.M.'75 (National Public Radio, 11/6/08)
Teach For America’s Kopp Describes What Works, What Will Work
"Wendy Kopp, founder and CEO of Teach For America (TFA) addressed a standing-room-only crowd at the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s (HGSE) Askwith Forum at Longfellow Hall on Nov. 3. Many in the audience were education administrators, teachers, and students." (Harvard Gazette, 11/6/08)
Randolph Schools Aim to Increase Parental Involvement
"Karen Mapp, a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, created the program for the workshop. It included small-group discussions on topics such as how parents can help their children with math and how to involve family members who do not speak English." (The Patriot Ledger, 11/5/08)
Harvard Professor to Receive Inaugural Lipman Award
"Eleanor Duckworth, a professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, will be awarded with the inaugural Barbara K. Lipman Award for Advances in Early Childhood Education on Nov. 13 at the Holiday Inn–University of Memphis." (Memphis Daily News, 11/5/08)
Why Collegiality Matters
"The reality is, even at institutions with fairly clear written guidelines, the matter of how to achieve tenure often remains a mystery wrapped in an enigma. Why? Because policies are subject to interpretation and because a certain amount of subjectivity is inherent in any evaluation." - Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education Research Associate Cathy Trower and Assistant Director Anne Gallagher (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 11/4/08. Registration required.)
Professor Fernando Reimers, along with Professor Catherine Snow, participated in a conference in Madrid organized by the Organization of Iberoamerican States and by the Fundacion Santillana. (* links in Spanish)
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/educacion/busca/lector/siglo/XXI/elpepusocedu/20081124elpepiedu_4/Tes
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