HGSE in the Media

February 2009

The Developing Child
Dean Kathleen McCartney and Professors Shonkoff, Snow, and Yoshikawa are featured in the cover story of the current Harvard Magazine. The piece explores Harvard's approach of combining science, policy, and practice to explore and impact child development. (Harvard Magazine, 3/09-4/09)

Schools as Centers of Community
"One of my dreams is to set up a nonprofit that would go into the very same communities I came from and work alongside schools to build partnerships to support students." - Doctoral candidate and Interim Director of the Principals' Center Al Witten, Ed.M.'02, Ed.M.'03 (Harvard Gazette, 2/26/09)

Author: Schools Need to Better Engage Using the Internet
"The Net Generation is not unmotivated. They need coaching and mentoring." - Change Leadership Group Director Tony Wagner (The Morning News, 2/16/09)

He’s the Angel of Harlem
"I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before." - Geoffrey Canada, Ed.M.'75 (Newsweek, 2/14/09)