Research Centers and Projects
Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR)
The Center for Education Policy Research is a unique partnership among districts, states, foundations, and university-based researchers designed to leverage the overwhelming amount of data to address education policy questions and improve outcomes for all students.
Center on the Developing Child (HCDC)
The Center on the Developing Child drives science-based innovation that achieves breakthrough outcomes for children facing adversity.
Education Entrepreneurship
A comprehensive view of the entrepreneurship-related courses, research, and student initiatives at HGSE.
The EdRedesign Lab
EdRedesign champions a broad, holistic model of developmental and educational opportunity for all children and youth, especially those affected by racism and poverty. We serve as a catalyst, through research, advocacy, and collaborative action, advancing the cradle-to-career field by promoting cross-sector community-based systems of support and opportunity to provide all children clear and accessible pathways to well-being, educational attainment, and upward mobility.
The Immigration Initiative at Harvard
Advancing and promoting interdisciplinary scholarship, original research, and intellectual exchange in immigration policy and immigrant communities
Making Caring Common
Making Caring Common helps educators, parents, and communities raise children who are caring, responsible to their communities, and committed to justice.
Project Zero
Project Zero poses fundamental questions of human potential—including intelligence, learning, critical thinking, and creativity—as they relate to contemporary issues facing an array of educational settings, such as schools, families, museums, and businesses.
Public Education Leadership Project (PELP)
The Public Education Leadership Project seeks to improve the management and leadership competencies of public school leaders in order to drive greater educational outcomes.
REACH - Research, Education, and Action for Refugees Around the World
Through collaborative research, education and action, REACH fosters welcoming communities and quality education in settings of migration and displacement
Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative
The Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative promotes the knowledge, professional learning, and collective action necessary to cultivate optimal early learning environments and experiences.
Faculty and HGSE-based Research Initiatives
- Causal Patterns in Science
- Charter Schools: Chartering Practice Project
- Civic and Moral Education Initiative (CMEI)
- Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE)
- Contrasting Cases: Using Contrasting Examples to Support Procedural Flexibility and Conceptual Understanding in Mathematics
- Data Wise Project
- Dynamic Development Laboratory
- Early Career Scholars Program
- Education Accountability Project
- Global Education Innovation Initiative
- Language Diversity & Literacy Development Research Group
- NICHD Study of Early Child Care & Youth Development
- Project on the Next Generation of Teachers
- Projects in Language Development
- READS Lab
- Research Schools International
- Visiting Scholars
- XMedia Lab