HGSE in the Media

December 2008

He Conceived of Multiple Intelligences
"Most people think there is a single computer in the mind. I think we have several relatively independent computers in the mind, and I've done the research to back it up." - Professor Howard Gardner (Boston Globe, 12/22/08)

Former Faculty Member Carol Chomsky Remembered
"Brilliant and accomplished, Carol Chomsky taught for many years at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and wrote oft-cited articles about how young children learn to read. And yet, she possessed talents that didn't easily fit on a curriculum vitae." (Boston Globe, 12/20/08)

The Proven Method to Improve Minority Education
"Harvard economist [Professor] Thomas Kane and his colleagues found no difference between the amount of learning taking place in New York City classrooms under the direction of non-certified teachers and in those under the direction of regularly certified ones." (Education Next, 12/18/08)

HGSE Group Brings Civics Back into Curriculum
"It is important for students to be neither too idealistic nor too cynical in the strategies they can imagine choosing. … Seeing connections and differences to choices made by ordinary people in periods when civil society is threatened is what a program like Facing History can help teachers teach." - Professor Robert Selman (Harvard Gazette, 12/18/08)

Niños Aprenden a Amar la Lectura Junto a sus Padres
An article discussing teachers who graduated from the UBC program, which involved Professor Catherine Snow. (La Tercera, 12/16/08)

Most Likely to Succeed
"A group of researchers—[Professor] Thomas J. Kane, an economist at Harvard’s school of education; Douglas Staiger, an economist at Dartmouth; and Robert Gordon, a policy analyst at the Center for American Progress—have investigated whether it helps to have a teacher who has earned a teaching certification or a master’s degree. Both are expensive, time-consuming credentials that almost every district expects teachers to acquire; neither makes a difference in the classroom." (The New Yorker, 12/15/08)

Starting Over, With a Second Career Goal of Changing Society
"The program, called the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative, is a collaboration among five of the university’s professional schools — business, law, government, education and public health. It is seen as a next stage for universities, beyond undergraduate and then graduate and professional schools." (The New York Times, 12/12/08)

Sackler Museum, Gutman Library ‘Step Into Art’ with Children
"The exhibit is the culmination of an innovative, four-tiered partnership between Harvard’s Sackler Museum, Mother Caroline Academy, the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), and Step Into Art, Inc., a Newton-based nonprofit led by founder Abby Rischin that provides dynamic art education programs for children." (Harvard Gazette, 12/11/08)

Better Data Seen as Vital to Improving Nation's Schools
"I’m deeply concerned that having the wrong metric is worse than having no metric at all. Are we using the right data now?" - Change Leadership Group Codirector Tony Wagner (Education Week, 12/10/08. Registration required.)

Human Capital Key Worry for Reformers
"[Professor] Robert B. Schwartz, the academic dean at Harvard's Graduate School of Education who teaches in the university's Public Education Leadership Program, a joint initiative with the business school, said broad agreement now exists that human capital needs attention, though 'this was not an insight a lot of us began with when the standards movement began in the nineties.'" (Education Week, 12/3/08. Registration required.)