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On November 13, the Askwith Forum highlighted the work and impact of local and national organizations devoted to school reform that are playing a significant and growing role in the transformation of U.S. schools.

Standardization has hardly been tradition within the American education system. It was not long ago — within the last 20 years to be exact — that not a single state in the South required algebra 1 for graduation, local governments in Pennsylvania…

Program founder Clayton Spencer, president of Bates College, reflected on 10 years of the Crimson Summer Academy, an innovative program for motivated Boston and Cambridge high school students with a passion for learning and a desire to excel.

Is digital media – especially the use of apps among today’s youth – good or bad? The answer is not as black and white as you might think, according to Professor Howard Gardner and University of Washington Assistant Professor Katie Davis,…

Michelle Cahill, vice president of national programs for the Carnegie Corporation of New York, discussed strategies toward transformative change, including the development and implementation of Common Core Standards at the Askwith Forum on October…

At the Askwith Forum on Monday, October 21, Professor Howard Gardner and University of Washington Assistant Professor Katie Davis discussed what it means to be "app-dependent" versus "app-enabled,"and how this generation's life differs from the one…

At the Askwith Forum on October 16, Kabat-Zinn discussed mindfulness and how integrating its practice into the K-12 curriculum for both teachers and students alike, can benefit children, teachers, the school system, and the larger community,…

This article originally appeared in the Harvard Gazette.“This is the start of the golden age of education. This is as big as it gets. Never have I seen a time in my life where education has been this exciting,” said edX President Anant Agarwal.…

As part of Teaching and Learning Week at HGSE, faculty members Robert Kegan and Meira Levinson shared some of the innovations in learning that they are actively developing at the Askwith Forum.

At the Askwith Forum, Anant Agarwal spoke about reinventing education through edX, the mission of which is to expand access to education for everyone, enhance teaching and learning on campus and online, and advance teaching and learning through…

The first Askwith Forum of the season presents a sneak preview of the film, "The Watsons Go to Birmingham," the story of a 12-year-old boy's road trip with his family to Birmingham, Ala. in 1963.(Note: Due to property rights, this forum was not…

The Harvard Graduate School of Education is pleased to announce its fall 2013 Askwith Forums, a series of public lectures dedicated to discussing challenges facing education, sharing new knowledge, and generating spirited conversation. Highlights…

On May 1, the Askwith Forum commemorated the 45th anniversary of the publication of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed with a discussion about the book’s impact and relevance to education today. On the panel was Noam Chomsky, noted linguist…

Internationally renowned gerontologist Karl Pillemer's research examines how people develop and change throughout their lives. His recent set of studies, The Legacy Project, aims to find out what older people know about life that the rest of us…

Join Sal Khan for a discussion about how online learning is transforming education in the 21st century at the Askwith Forum on May 8.

Education is not a civil right in the United States agreed a group of education panelists at a recent Askwith Forum. At “Educational Opportunity and Changing Demographics,” offered in conjunction with the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative…

On Wednesday, May 1, the Askwith Forum commemorated the 45th anniversary of the publication of Paolo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" with a discussion about the book's impact and relevance to education today.

Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, best known for his theory of multiple intelligences. During the past two decades, he has been involved in the…

Pasi Sahlberg, director general of the Centre for International Mobility and Cooperation (CIMO) in Finland, called the global education reform movement a “wicked germ” spreading around the world at the Askwith Forum on April 23.“It is run like…

At the Askwith Forum on Thursday, April 25, a panel examined factors that limit the educational opportunities of African American and Latino students, and reviewed what we know about best practices to overcome those barriers.