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A reprinted article in the #HarvardEdReview by Meira Levinson highlights ethical dilemmas that educators face under conditions shaped by injustices, and the need for society to enact moral repair. Read this piece here: https://bit.ly/4pN2zWf
November 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A reprinted article in the #HarvardEdReview by Meira Levinson highlights ethical dilemmas that educators face under conditions shaped by injustices, and the need for society to enact moral repair. Read this piece here: https://bit.ly/4pN2zWf
October 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Curiosity drives how we learn — but too often, our education systems hold it back.
HGSE Associate Professor Elizabeth Bonawitz joins the Harvard EdCast to explore how curiosity powers motivation, memory, and understanding and what we can do to help it thrive.
🎧 Listen here: https://bit.ly/48KCdhC
HGSE Associate Professor Elizabeth Bonawitz joins the Harvard EdCast to explore how curiosity powers motivation, memory, and understanding and what we can do to help it thrive.
🎧 Listen here: https://bit.ly/48KCdhC
How Curiosity Can Unlock Learning for Every Child
Associate Professor Elizabeth Bonawitz explores why curiosity is essential to learning and how schools can better protect it
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October 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Curiosity drives how we learn — but too often, our education systems hold it back.
HGSE Associate Professor Elizabeth Bonawitz joins the Harvard EdCast to explore how curiosity powers motivation, memory, and understanding and what we can do to help it thrive.
🎧 Listen here: https://bit.ly/48KCdhC
HGSE Associate Professor Elizabeth Bonawitz joins the Harvard EdCast to explore how curiosity powers motivation, memory, and understanding and what we can do to help it thrive.
🎧 Listen here: https://bit.ly/48KCdhC
In our latest episode of the Harvard EdCast, Dreama Gentry, founder and CEO of Partners for Rural Impact, shares how “cradle-to-career” pathways are rebuilding hope in rural America and why the future of education depends on keeping rural students in the picture.
🎙️ Listen here: bit.ly/3KRhX41
🎙️ Listen here: bit.ly/3KRhX41
October 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
In our latest episode of the Harvard EdCast, Dreama Gentry, founder and CEO of Partners for Rural Impact, shares how “cradle-to-career” pathways are rebuilding hope in rural America and why the future of education depends on keeping rural students in the picture.
🎙️ Listen here: bit.ly/3KRhX41
🎙️ Listen here: bit.ly/3KRhX41
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Opinion | The Erosion of Context in Admissions
The shift toward standardized metrics will make the selective college admissions process less fair, not more, Tara P. Nicola, Mandy Savitz-Romer and Julius DiLorenzo write. https://bit.ly/4q9YYBU
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
The shift toward standardized metrics will make the selective college admissions process less fair, not more, Tara P. Nicola, Mandy Savitz-Romer and Julius DiLorenzo write. https://bit.ly/4q9YYBU
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
October 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Opinion | The Erosion of Context in Admissions
The shift toward standardized metrics will make the selective college admissions process less fair, not more, Tara P. Nicola, Mandy Savitz-Romer and Julius DiLorenzo write. https://bit.ly/4q9YYBU
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
The shift toward standardized metrics will make the selective college admissions process less fair, not more, Tara P. Nicola, Mandy Savitz-Romer and Julius DiLorenzo write. https://bit.ly/4q9YYBU
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
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Tomorrow (10/10) at 12 PM ET, be sure to join HEP author @chandlermiranda.bsky.social for a virtual book talk on SANCTUARY SCHOOL! This event will be hosted by the Monroe C. Gutman Library and is free to attend. Learn more and register: https://bit.ly/4mMQr4K
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Tomorrow (10/10) at 12 PM ET, be sure to join HEP author @chandlermiranda.bsky.social for a virtual book talk on SANCTUARY SCHOOL! This event will be hosted by the Monroe C. Gutman Library and is free to attend. Learn more and register: https://bit.ly/4mMQr4K
At the first Askwith Education Forum of the fall, international law scholar Anthea Roberts joined HGSE professors Howard Gardner and Martin West to explore the impact of AI in education.
Thank you to our speakers and all who joined us. To watch the full discussion: https://bit.ly/4244pYK
Thank you to our speakers and all who joined us. To watch the full discussion: https://bit.ly/4244pYK
September 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
At the first Askwith Education Forum of the fall, international law scholar Anthea Roberts joined HGSE professors Howard Gardner and Martin West to explore the impact of AI in education.
Thank you to our speakers and all who joined us. To watch the full discussion: https://bit.ly/4244pYK
Thank you to our speakers and all who joined us. To watch the full discussion: https://bit.ly/4244pYK
Do you feel optimistic or cautious about AI in your field? 🤔 Join Howard Gardner and Anthea Roberts as they explore AI’s impact on human intelligence, thinking, and learning.
📆 September 17
⏰ 5–6:30 p.m. ET
🏫 Askwith Hall
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🔗 Info & RSVP: hgse.me/Sept172025
📆 September 17
⏰ 5–6:30 p.m. ET
🏫 Askwith Hall
📍Harvard Graduate School of Education
🔗 Info & RSVP: hgse.me/Sept172025
September 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Do you feel optimistic or cautious about AI in your field? 🤔 Join Howard Gardner and Anthea Roberts as they explore AI’s impact on human intelligence, thinking, and learning.
📆 September 17
⏰ 5–6:30 p.m. ET
🏫 Askwith Hall
📍Harvard Graduate School of Education
🔗 Info & RSVP: hgse.me/Sept172025
📆 September 17
⏰ 5–6:30 p.m. ET
🏫 Askwith Hall
📍Harvard Graduate School of Education
🔗 Info & RSVP: hgse.me/Sept172025
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If you're in Cambridge, MA on 9/17 at 5 PM ET, be sure to join @harvardeducation.bsky.social for an Askwith Education Forum titled, "Thinking in an AI-Augmented World." This event is free to attend! Learn more:
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September 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
If you're in Cambridge, MA on 9/17 at 5 PM ET, be sure to join @harvardeducation.bsky.social for an Askwith Education Forum titled, "Thinking in an AI-Augmented World." This event is free to attend! Learn more:
“School had always been a comfortable place for me, a safe place, a rewarding place.”
From high school classrooms to college campuses, alum Barbara Selmo, Ed.M.’94, Ed.D.’04, reflects on her four decades as an educator.
Read more about Selmo’s journey in Ed. Magazine: bit.ly/3JeLWSA
From high school classrooms to college campuses, alum Barbara Selmo, Ed.M.’94, Ed.D.’04, reflects on her four decades as an educator.
Read more about Selmo’s journey in Ed. Magazine: bit.ly/3JeLWSA
August 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
“School had always been a comfortable place for me, a safe place, a rewarding place.”
From high school classrooms to college campuses, alum Barbara Selmo, Ed.M.’94, Ed.D.’04, reflects on her four decades as an educator.
Read more about Selmo’s journey in Ed. Magazine: bit.ly/3JeLWSA
From high school classrooms to college campuses, alum Barbara Selmo, Ed.M.’94, Ed.D.’04, reflects on her four decades as an educator.
Read more about Selmo’s journey in Ed. Magazine: bit.ly/3JeLWSA
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"I think we assume that if you have formal authority, you have power, and you'll be able to get things done...It turns out that most things are accomplished through a large measure of informal authority." —Liz City for the @harvardeducation.bsky.social EdCast https://bit.ly/3IDpylA
What It Really Means to Be a Strategic Leader | Harvard Graduate School of Education
Senior Lecturer Liz City shares the five key elements of strategic leadership — and why school leaders should embrace them
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August 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"I think we assume that if you have formal authority, you have power, and you'll be able to get things done...It turns out that most things are accomplished through a large measure of informal authority." —Liz City for the @harvardeducation.bsky.social EdCast https://bit.ly/3IDpylA
Teachers are made of questions. Getting answers to the practical ones is critical, as Christian Wilkens, Ed.M.’05, Ed.D.’09, shares in his new book, "Foundations of American Education."
Read more: bit.ly/4oinm38
Read more: bit.ly/4oinm38
August 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Teachers are made of questions. Getting answers to the practical ones is critical, as Christian Wilkens, Ed.M.’05, Ed.D.’09, shares in his new book, "Foundations of American Education."
Read more: bit.ly/4oinm38
Read more: bit.ly/4oinm38
#WhyEducationResearchMatters:
“The Open Canopy Handbook” — authored by Liz Dawes Duraisingh and Shari Tishman — offers educators strategies to help students engage in deeper, more meaningful dialogue across differences.
Read more about their work: bit.ly/42PcEsx
“The Open Canopy Handbook” — authored by Liz Dawes Duraisingh and Shari Tishman — offers educators strategies to help students engage in deeper, more meaningful dialogue across differences.
Read more about their work: bit.ly/42PcEsx
July 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
#WhyEducationResearchMatters:
“The Open Canopy Handbook” — authored by Liz Dawes Duraisingh and Shari Tishman — offers educators strategies to help students engage in deeper, more meaningful dialogue across differences.
Read more about their work: bit.ly/42PcEsx
“The Open Canopy Handbook” — authored by Liz Dawes Duraisingh and Shari Tishman — offers educators strategies to help students engage in deeper, more meaningful dialogue across differences.
Read more about their work: bit.ly/42PcEsx
"Why did I choose, and continue to choose, education? Because I’ll measure my life by whether I used those years, months, weeks, and hours in ways that mattered to me,” says Dominik Dresel, Ed.M.’18.
Read more in Ed. Magazine: bit.ly/4kpKTMp
Read more in Ed. Magazine: bit.ly/4kpKTMp
July 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"Why did I choose, and continue to choose, education? Because I’ll measure my life by whether I used those years, months, weeks, and hours in ways that mattered to me,” says Dominik Dresel, Ed.M.’18.
Read more in Ed. Magazine: bit.ly/4kpKTMp
Read more in Ed. Magazine: bit.ly/4kpKTMp
Nestled in the heart of Harvard Square, HGSE alum Rachel Kanter’s Lovestruck Books invites you to wander through aisles of romance books.
“Romance isn’t meant to be taken too seriously,” Kanter notes. “But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have the ability to transport and heal.” bit.ly/40Kajxl
“Romance isn’t meant to be taken too seriously,” Kanter notes. “But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have the ability to transport and heal.” bit.ly/40Kajxl
Field of Dreamy-ness
From English teacher to bookseller, grad spreads love for books
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July 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Nestled in the heart of Harvard Square, HGSE alum Rachel Kanter’s Lovestruck Books invites you to wander through aisles of romance books.
“Romance isn’t meant to be taken too seriously,” Kanter notes. “But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have the ability to transport and heal.” bit.ly/40Kajxl
“Romance isn’t meant to be taken too seriously,” Kanter notes. “But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have the ability to transport and heal.” bit.ly/40Kajxl
“The need to improve reading instruction for students who are vulnerable for reading difficulties is not going away,” said Phil Capin, assistant professor of education at HGSE.
“We’re committed to finding ways to continue the work, but how that occurs is unclear.” bit.ly/4eDm1zI
“We’re committed to finding ways to continue the work, but how that occurs is unclear.” bit.ly/4eDm1zI
As reading scores decline, a study primed to help grinds to a halt — Harvard Gazette
Partnership with Texas, Colorado researchers is terminated as part of the federal funding cuts targeting Harvard.
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July 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
“The need to improve reading instruction for students who are vulnerable for reading difficulties is not going away,” said Phil Capin, assistant professor of education at HGSE.
“We’re committed to finding ways to continue the work, but how that occurs is unclear.” bit.ly/4eDm1zI
“We’re committed to finding ways to continue the work, but how that occurs is unclear.” bit.ly/4eDm1zI
Summer reading should be about exploration and engagement — not just a chore to check off. HGSE Senior Lecturer Pamela Mason and Gutman Library Director Alex Hodges share how to make it meaningful and fun.
Read the full article: bit.ly/44wHV2O
Read the full article: bit.ly/44wHV2O
Keeping Kids Engaged with Summer Reading
HGSE faculty share the role that motivation and choice play in avoiding summer reading battles
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July 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Summer reading should be about exploration and engagement — not just a chore to check off. HGSE Senior Lecturer Pamela Mason and Gutman Library Director Alex Hodges share how to make it meaningful and fun.
Read the full article: bit.ly/44wHV2O
Read the full article: bit.ly/44wHV2O
Helping educators grow can greatly impact student outcomes, which, according to Senior Lecturer Elizabeth City, is why teachers and school leaders need to take the time to learn on the job. Explore tools that can help educators in their own learning. bit.ly/4jbWiiO
April 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Helping educators grow can greatly impact student outcomes, which, according to Senior Lecturer Elizabeth City, is why teachers and school leaders need to take the time to learn on the job. Explore tools that can help educators in their own learning. bit.ly/4jbWiiO
HGSE Lecturer Aaliyah El-Amin, along with Scott Seider and Julia Bott, share research-backed strategies on how to educate students for social action and explain why it doesn’t have to come at the expense of academic learning. bit.ly/4j4DYsg
April 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
HGSE Lecturer Aaliyah El-Amin, along with Scott Seider and Julia Bott, share research-backed strategies on how to educate students for social action and explain why it doesn’t have to come at the expense of academic learning. bit.ly/4j4DYsg
Despite advancements in teaching basic reading skills, the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the “Nation’s Report Card,” show declines in U.S. fourth and eighth graders' reading scores, highlighting a need to improve literacy outcomes.
Learn more here: bit.ly/4ixaH8W
Learn more here: bit.ly/4ixaH8W
April 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Despite advancements in teaching basic reading skills, the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the “Nation’s Report Card,” show declines in U.S. fourth and eighth graders' reading scores, highlighting a need to improve literacy outcomes.
Learn more here: bit.ly/4ixaH8W
Learn more here: bit.ly/4ixaH8W
“We know that measures are important. We know that evaluation is important, but they're not always talking to each other. So where can we highlight those opportunities and improve them?” says Ph.D. Candidate Lily An. Explore how An’s research helps shape how we evaluate students. bit.ly/3XawgDQ
April 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
“We know that measures are important. We know that evaluation is important, but they're not always talking to each other. So where can we highlight those opportunities and improve them?” says Ph.D. Candidate Lily An. Explore how An’s research helps shape how we evaluate students. bit.ly/3XawgDQ
How far have we come in supporting children’s reading comprehension? A study led by Assistant Professor Phil Capin finds that a “substantial gap persists” between research and practice. Learn more about how to approach the most effective reading comprehension instruction practices. bit.ly/4iWLo0b
March 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
How far have we come in supporting children’s reading comprehension? A study led by Assistant Professor Phil Capin finds that a “substantial gap persists” between research and practice. Learn more about how to approach the most effective reading comprehension instruction practices. bit.ly/4iWLo0b
What does the U.S. Department of Education actually do? On our Harvard EdCast, Professor Martin West discusses the department’s responsibilities, the misconceptions surrounding its influence, and the historical and political forces that have shaped its existence. bit.ly/4gyMAWa
March 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
What does the U.S. Department of Education actually do? On our Harvard EdCast, Professor Martin West discusses the department’s responsibilities, the misconceptions surrounding its influence, and the historical and political forces that have shaped its existence. bit.ly/4gyMAWa
After 45 years at HGSE, Catherine Snow, a pioneering researcher in language and literacy, is getting ready to retire from teaching.
In addition to being regarded for her contributions to the field, she is known for her dedication to mentorship, sense of humor — and impeccable style. bit.ly/40TEh2W
In addition to being regarded for her contributions to the field, she is known for her dedication to mentorship, sense of humor — and impeccable style. bit.ly/40TEh2W
December 3, 2024 at 2:31 PM
After 45 years at HGSE, Catherine Snow, a pioneering researcher in language and literacy, is getting ready to retire from teaching.
In addition to being regarded for her contributions to the field, she is known for her dedication to mentorship, sense of humor — and impeccable style. bit.ly/40TEh2W
In addition to being regarded for her contributions to the field, she is known for her dedication to mentorship, sense of humor — and impeccable style. bit.ly/40TEh2W