HGSE in the Media

November 2006

Iraq's Violent 'Brain Drain' Called a Threat to Future
"'When you take away a country's scientists, you are targeting Iraq itself,' said [Tahir] Albakaa, who survived four attempts on his life before he moved to Boston last year as a visiting scholar at Harvard's Graduate School of Education…" (The Boston Globe, 11/30/06)

Researchers Ask Whether NCLB's Goals for Proficiency Are Realistic
"'You better have the ability to fix the worst cases, or the policy loses credibility,' [HGSE Professor Richard] Elmore said. 'I think that's where we are now.'" (Ed Week, 11/29/06)

Harvard Civil Rights Group Headed to LA
"The Civil Rights Project at Harvard is moving to the University of California at Los Angeles, along with its director, Gary Orfield." (The Boston Globe, 11/29/06)

GSE Hosts Panel on Racial Balance
"The Graduate School of Education hosted a packed audience for a panel on two Supreme Court cases about the constitutionality of using race in school assignments." (The Harvard Crimson, 11/29/06)

Only the Bathwater -- Or the Baby, Too?
"'We need to revive the discussion of national education standards,' said Robert Schwartz, Academic Dean and Professor of Practice, Harvard Graduate School of Education. 'The need for this is even stronger now than it was before NCLB. One way to address the problem of national standards is to encourage national organizations, not the federal government, to come forward with proposed sets of voluntary model national standards.'" (Teachers College News, 11/21/06)

Howard Gardner: Thought for the Future
"'When people say they are doing MI, that's great. But I think, what are they all using it for?' [Professor Howard Gardner] he says. 'Some people don't really think about why they are using these ideas.'" (The Guardian, 11/21/06)

Grading Teachers
"Thomas Kane, professor of education and economics at Harvard Graduate School of Education, has sought to measure the effectiveness of teachers based on their accreditation status." (Harvard Magazine, Nov/Dec Issue)

Professors Get an 'F' in Copyright Protection from Publishers
"'If publishers push too hard, faculty may just decide they no longer need a middleman who collects all the profits in each direction,' [HGSE Professor Chris] Dede says." (Bloomberg News, 11/17/06)

Milford Woman Helps Mexican Schools
"'It was one of the largest-scale projects I've ever worked with,' said [HGSE Professor Ilona] Holland, who divides each week between Milford and Harvard. 'This is an amazingly wonderful opportunity to have an impact.'" (The News Journal, 11/14/06)

How Do You Measure People Skills?
"HGSE Professor Paul Harris writes a column about Professor Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences and Daniel Goleman's new book, Social Intelligences." (Slate, 11/13/06)

No Easy Answers
"'There is an overwhelming amount of evidence showing both academic and social benefits of integrated schools to both students and communities, as well as the harmful implications of racially-isolated schools,' he [HGSE Professor Gary Orfield] said. 'Minority schools are often high-poverty schools,' he explained, and those learning environments tend to have low parental involvement, less experienced teachers, higher staff turnover rates, and a lack of resources." (The Boston Globe, 11/12/06)

Out of the Shadows
"'I've watched Emerson from a distance with admiration,' says Richard Freeland, a former Northeastern University president and a visiting professor of higher education at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. 'A number of things have come together. The move to the downtown area was absolutely brilliant, both for the city in terms of revitalizing the area and for Emerson.'" (The Boston Globe, 11/12/06)

Geeta Rao Gupta Receives Anne Roe Award from GSE
"'Education, I would like to argue, is only one of the ingredients necessary to bring about women's empowerment—is a necessary, even essential, but not sufficient condition for that magical outcome that allows an individual to feel confident and in control of her own life and its outcomes,' [said Geeta Rao Gupta] who spoke at the Harvard Graduate School of Education on Oct. 25 before being given the biennial award established in 1979 to honor Anne Roe, tenured in 1963, a leading researcher on the development of careers for women." (Harvard Gazette, 11/2/06)