HGSE in the Media

March 2008

CRLS Teachers Learn Together Through Exhibition
"Display boards are a common sight at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. They are usually indicative of a science fair, National History Day or a special literature project. What is unique about the display boards currently on exhibit in the CRLS Teachers' Resource Center is that they have been created by teachers… Many of the ideas teachers have been experimenting with were developed and researched at Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education." (The Cambridge Chronicle, 03/31/08)

Life After Special Ed Has Challenges
"'It's not just a matter of filling out some compliance boxes on an IEP,' said Harvard University education professor Tom Hehir, referring to the individualized education program written for each special-Ed student. 'It's not easy. It requires you to really think about where you're going with this particular kid in the long term.'" (Associated Press, 03/31/08)

School Leaders Across Texas Headed for Harvard
"Raise Your Hand Texas is sending 100 principals to the Ivy League. The Austin-based nonprofit is sending the principals, who come from schools across the state, to a leadership seminar this summer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education." (Austin Business Journal, 03/26/08)

Multiple Intelligences at 25
"'I could have used 'talents' or 'competencies,' [Professor Howard Gardner] said. It was 'intelligences' that grabbed people's attention, and that angered the testing establishment. The psychometric community had believed that it owned intelligence so by 'pluralizing it,'" Gardner said. "'I caused a commotion.'" (Insidehighered.com, 03/25/08)

Reville the Right Man
"There is much work to be done: closing the achievement gap, enriching education through extended learning time, extending the innovations fostered by charter schools, smoothing the transition from high school to college. [Senior Lecturer] Paul Reville is an excellent choice to lead this vital discussion." (MetroWest Daily News, 03/24/08)

Robert Dentler, 79, Helped Draft School Desegration Plan
"'He had a deep and abiding desire for achieving justice,' said Charles Willie, professor emeritus at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a court-appointed master who oversaw desegregation in Boston's schools. 'He would have nothing to do with a plan that wasn't designed to achieve justice. Justice as he saw it was justice for people of color as well as for white people. It was justice for people of limited income as well as for affluent people. That was something that stayed with him.'" (The Boston Globe, 03/23/08)

Studies Link Teacher Absences to Lower Student Scores
"'What we are finding is what common sense would expect: that the more teachers are out before the test, the less well students perform,' said Raegen T. Miller, the lead author of a recent paper on the subject produced by a group of researchers at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education." (Education Week, 03/19/08)

How Can the Achievement Gap Be Closed?
"'I have no doubt that educational entrepreneurs could create a wide range of new educational options for urban youth that would improve their life chances. However, I do have doubts about the commitment of the country to pay for such dramatic change and to create the governance structures to support it,' writes Professor Richard Murnane." (The New York Times Blog, 03/18/08)

Improving Urban Schools: Two Approaches that Need Each Other
"'The low skill levels of students leaving America's urban public schools constitute one of the nation's most pressing domestic policy problems. School dropout rates are one of many indicators of the magnitude of the problem,' writes Professor Richard Murnane." (voxeu.org, 03/17/08)

Our Lives, Articulated by Others
"What [HGSE Advanced Doctoral Candidate Abdi Ali] wants his students to recognize is how literature can give us words when we have no words... 'The teacher in me is always trying to find texts that do for my students what books do for me,' he says." (The Boston Globe, 03/16/08)

The 'Human' Challenge
"'The future is about knowing...when to use formative or diagnostic assessment, versus summative assessment. It is about recognizing that performance data [are] an untapped resource,' said [Professor Chris] Dede." (Eschoolnews.com, 03/11/08)

Governor to Name Education Secretary
"Governor Deval Patrick is expected today to name [Senior Lecturer] Paul Reville, chairman of the state Board of Education and an architect of the state's education reform plan in the 1990s, as education secretary, a Cabinet-level post that cements Patrick's sweeping overhaul of the state's education leadership." (The Boston Globe, 03/11/08)

At Talitha Koum, Seeing What Brainpower Can Do
"[Professor] Jack Shonkoff, director of Harvard University's Center on the Developing Child, says these stress hormones 'literally disrupt the brain's architecture.'" (Waco Tribune, 03/07/08)

On a Journey to Make a Difference
"While studying at Harvard Graduate School of Education, [Master's candidate Aislynn] Doyle worked with an after school arts programs at Centro Presente, a Cambridge-based nonprofit led by Central American immigrants. Currently, she volunteers as a coordinator of the Reading Buddies/Lectores and Amiguitos program at Amigos, a Cambridge school that offers a dual language immersion approach in English and Spanish, similar to Barbieri's Two Way Bilingual Program." (Framingham Tab, 03/06/08)

Teaching Social Justice in Higher Ed
"'What does a college president do after leaving the high intensity rigors of the job? One likely calling is the classroom, whence many of us came in the first place. So after a decade as president of Haverford College, I returned to the classroom at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education,' writes Thomas Tritton." (Insidehighered.com, 03/03/08)

The Toxicity of Poverty
"But as Jack Shonkoff, Harvard's professor in child health, told the AAAS: 'There are no magic bullets.'" (Newstatesman, 02/28/08)