Stories of Impact
The Harvard Graduate School of Education makes a difference through countless women and men who have dedicated themselves to the task of improving the world of education. Here are some of their stories:
Soo Hong, Ed.D. Candidate
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Upon the approval of HGSE doctoral student Soo Hong's dissertation proposal in May, she got on a plane to begin her research on a Chicago community organization's work with immigrant parents. |
Robert Kegan, Faculty
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Today's educational leaders bear an unprecedented responsibility in preparing K–12 students to enter a global knowledge economy. These students will graduate into a world more demanding than anything envisioned when their teachers and administrators were in school. How do the classrooms, schools, and districts these administrators lead need to be different? How can they bring about these changes? And, most importantly, How may the leaders themselves need to change in order to bring these changes about? |
Jacqui Deegan, Ed.M. '93
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As a producer of Arthur, an Emmy-award winning animated series that airs daily on PBS Kids, and Time Warp Trio, a history cartoon aired weekly on NBC, Deegan is always thinking about education. |
Liliana Garces, Ed.D candidate
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When doctoral student Liliana Garces, a former attorney, had the chance this past summer to work with lecturer Gary Orfield and the Civil Rights Project on a case about racial desegregation being litigated before the U.S. Supreme Court, it didn't take long for her to sign on. |
John Merrow, Ed.D. '73
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Beginning on National Public Radio (NPR) in 1974, John Merrow created interesting and lively radio broadcasts that exposed the issues lurking below education's surface. Through the years, he's most known for his work on The Merrow Report, as well as The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour on PBS. |