HGSE in the Media

June 2009

Live Video From NECC '09
"Harvard University Professor Chris Dede discusses the potential for online learning to drive innovation in the classroom." (Education Week's "Digital Education" blog, 6/30/09. Registration required.)

Game On: High-Tech Simulations Linked to Learning
"You have to start with the issue and ask yourself, 'Is there a way that gaming or simulation might help me in wrestling with this issue?' as opposed to saying,'Whatever the problem is, if I just put gaming in, it’s going to get better.'" - Professor Chris Dede (Education Week, 6/17/09. Registration required.)

THE QUESTION: Excerpts from On Leadership, a Web Feature Exploring Vision and Motivation
"No doubt, part of Barack Obama's appeal is that he clearly represents the culmination of his life experiences and is not afraid to say so, and to draw upon that history as appropriate.... It is telling that personal histories prove more salient in the case of women and minorities than in the case of white males." - Professor Howard Gardner (The Washington Post, 6/14/09. Registration required.)

Early Years are Crucial for Kids to Become Productive Adults
"Dr. Jack Shonkoff, a Harvard University professor and one of the nation’s foremost experts on early childhood learning, says in the June 3 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association that the toxic stress of physical or emotional abuse, poverty and malnutrition becomes biologically embedded and can literally get under the skin." (The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6/13/09)

Accountability 2.0
"Here’s the problem: When many policymakers, parents, and educators hear the call for 'tougher standards,' they assume this means requiring students to know more academic content. Most do not understand that merely teaching and testing more subject knowledge will not prepare students for careers and college in this new century. We don’t just need tougher standards." Chnage Leadership Group Codirector Tony Wagner (writing in Education Week, 6/17/09. Registration required.)

Martha Minow Appointed Dean of Harvard Law School
Martha Minow, Ed.M.'76, was announced as Dean of Harvard Law School on June 11. (Harvard Magazine, 6/11/09)

Developing Children and the Economy
"When we fail to provide children with what they need to build a strong foundation for healthy and productive lives, we put our future prosperity and security at risk." – Professor Jack Shonkoff (The News & Observer, 6/10/09)

GSE Dancer Stewart Tangos with Art, Academics
"Today [Robert] Stewart, [Ed.M.'09],wants to make sure that neither height nor weight nor even money will stop any child from experiencing the wonder and joy of dance and other arts. With his new master’s in education, he is intent on finding new and inventive ways to make the arts an integral part of every school’s curriculum. " (Harvard Gazette, 6/4/09)

HGSE Students Go Back to High School — to Mentor
"When Alexandra Fuentes and Alicia Rosenberg enlisted in the Teacher Education Program (TEP) as students in the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), they were infiltrating a chaotic realm of teenagers and homework — and life would never be the same again: They were going back to high school." (Harvard Gazette, 6/4/09)

Childhood Stress May Cause Illness in Adults
"Excessive, continuous, unremitting stress at high levels — without the buffering protection of adult support — is what leaves high-risk groups vulnerable to problems with learning, problems with behavior, and problems with physical and mental health." - Professor Jack Shonkoff (WBUR, 6/3/09)

New York City Shows Gains in Math
"If you have a bunch of schools that are making substantial gains, some may be doing the hard work, but some may be introducing shortcuts." - Professor Daniel Koretz (The New York Times, 6/1/09)