HGSE in the Media: December 2018

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Featured Faculty

Professor Howard Gardner

• Ageless Authors Offers Writing Contests, Publishing for Seniors to Keep the Mind Agile (Fox WICZ)

Professor Roberto Gonzales

• You Can’t Pour From an Empty Cup (Inside Higher Ed)

Professor Paul Harris

• Can Play Save the World? (Quartz)

Professor Stephanie Jones

• Asking If Early-Childhood Education ‘Works’ Is the Wrong Question. Here Are the Right Ones. (Washington Post)
• A Ban on Parents in a School Lunchroom? Everyone Seems to Have an Opinion. (New York Times)

Professor James Kim

• Five Levers to Improve Early Literacy in North Carolina (EducationNC)

Lecturer Josephine Kim

• An Invitation to Sound Off (Harvard Gazette)

Professor Nonie Lesaux

• Asking If Early-Childhood Education ‘Works’ Is the Wrong Question. Here Are the Right Ones. (Washington Post)

Senior Lecturer Karen Mapp

• The Year’s Memorable Education Interviews: 11 Conversations That Shaped How We Think About America’s Schools (74 Million)

Professor Charles Nelson

• IQ Tests Are Biased Against People With Autism (The Atlantic)
• Can These Researchers Catch Cancer Much Earlier than Ever Before? (Boston Globe)
• Child Separations, Here at Home: We Remove Far, Far Too Many Kids from Their Families in the Name of Saving Them (NY Daily News)

Professor Paul Reville

• School Reform Initiative Finds National Inspiration (New Hampshire Business Review)

Lecturer Todd Rose

• Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Names Sandra Liu Huang New Head of Education; Champion of Personalized Learning & Interdisciplinary Collaboration Will Succeed Jim Shelton (74 Million)
• The Dark Horse Path to Happiness (Outside Online)
• Today’s Show: New Oil Refinery in Alberta, the Importance of Individuality, Michelle Rempel, and Political Islam in Canada (Danielle Smith/Omny.fm)
• 5 Myths About the Future of Work that You Need to Stop Believing (Fast Company)

Professor Jack Shonkoff

• ‘A Moral Disaster’: AP Reveals Scope of Migrant Kids Program (Associated Press)
• Why the Littlest Learners Deserve the Most Attention — and Money (EdSurge)

Professor Catherine Snow

• More English Learners Are Turning To Virtual Charter Schools. But Are They Meeting Their Needs? (WBUR)

Lecturer Shari Tishman

• Slowing Down: Looking Back at the Year’s Visual Arts Scene Finds Reason for Cheer (Style Weekly)

Associate Professor Natasha Warikoo

• Challengers of Affirmative Action Have a New Target: New York City’s Elite High Schools (New York Times)

Senior Lecturer Richard Weissbourd

• Chores: The Secret to Your Kid's Success (News 4 Jax)
• Passing Along the Power of Generosity (The Oakland Press)
• How to Raise Your Child to Be a Kind and Generous Person (Star Tribune)
• Life Lessons: Having 'The Talk' (WFMZ)

Professor Martin West

• Arts Curriculum Framework Getting Rewrite (Sentinel & Enterprise)
• What Do Teachers Really Think About School Discipline Reform? (Education Writers Association)
• The Charter-School Teachers’ Strike in Chicago Was ‘Inevitable’ (The Atlantic)

Featured Research Projects and Initiatives

Center on Education Policy Research

• Why We Need to Rethink Remediation (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Project Zero

• How Much Screen Time Is Too Much for Kids? (EdSurge)

Reach Every Reader

• FSU Researchers Push Creative, Scientific Accomplishments in 2018 (Florida State University)

Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative

• Harvard Zaentz Initiative and Abt Launch First Comprehensive Study of Early Learning in Massachusetts (PRWeb)

Strategic Data Project

• For a Better Data Program, Target Common Roadblocks (EdTech Magazine)