HGSE in the Media

February 2005

What Teachers Hate About Parents
A special report featuring insight from Fisher Professor of Education Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot on how parents and teachers can build stronger partnerships to achieve successful and happy students. (Time, 2/21/05)

Failure Spawns School's Reinvention
Anrig Professor Richard Elmore comments on how the focus should be on teacher quality, versus closing schools, when addressing failing schools. (Boston Globe, 2/20/05)

New Teachers Last to Be Hired, First to Burn Out
An article including research conducted by HGSE's Project on the Next Generation of Teachers, led by Pforzheimer Professor Susan Moore Johnson. (AARP, 2/18/05)

Study: 'Segregation Has Not Gone Away' in Schools
Professor of Education and Director of the Civil Rights Project at Harvard Gary Orfield is interviewed on his recent research linking racial segregation and poverty. (Dallas Morning News, 2/15/05)

At the Corner of Sesame Street and Appian Way, HGSE, Sesame Workshop Announce Collaboration
Warren Professor and Dean Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Sesame Workshop CEO and President Gary Knell, and Grover, host a press conference at the Ed School to kick off a new course. (Harvard Gazette, 2/10/05)

Don't Touch that Dial
Lecturer on Education Joseph Blatt comments on how electronic media, especially that which is intelligent and educational, can benefit children. (Globe and Mail [Canada], 2/10/05)

Grover to Use His Street Smarts at Harvard for Kids
Lecturer in Education Joesph Blatt comments on the collaboration between Sesame Workshop and HGSE in designing a new course examining how electronic media can benefit children. (Boston Herald, 2/10/05)