Harvard Graduate School of Education

Coat of arms
Type	Private
Established	1920; 105 years ago (1920)
Dean	Nonie K. Lesaux
Students	876
Location	Cambridge, Massachusetts , United States
Campus	Urban
Website	www.gse.harvard.edu

TheHarvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) is theeducation school ofHarvard University, aprivateIvy Leagueresearch university inCambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1920, it was the first school to grant theEdD degree and the first Harvard school to award degrees to women. HGSE enrolls around 800 students between its master of education (Ed.M.) and three-year doctor of education leadership (Ed.L.D.) programs.

It is associated with the Harvard Education Publishing Group whose imprint is the Harvard Education Press and publishes theHarvard Educational Review.^[1]

In 1892, Harvard presidentCharles W. Eliot served as the chair of theCommittee of Ten, a working group of educators charged with understanding the current state of preparation for students attending secondary education in public schools, and making recommendations for the future.

In addition, he appointed Paul Henry Hanus to begin the formal study of education as a discipline at Harvard. As a result, in 1906, education became a formal division within theFaculty of Arts and Sciences at the university.^[2]

This school was formally established in 1920,^[3] and in the next year, HGSE became the first school to grant adoctor of education (Ed.D.) degree. The EdD provided rigorous research training that equipped graduates with the knowledge and skills to have a broad impact in the worlds of policy and practice.^[4] The faculty has grown ever since.

In 1949, the Laboratory of Human Development (now the Human Development and Education Program) was established to examine the psychological development of children in their families and communities. Two years later, theMasters of Arts in Teaching degree was offered by HGSE, followed by the Administrative Career Program.

The school is run by DeanBridget Terry Long.^[5]

Nelson Goodman founded Project Zero in 1967 to explore a basic research project in artistic cognition and artistic education. This project developed into a bigger scope ever since included being directed byHoward Gardner. Numerous research findings are converted into practice through modules, from thinking routines to learning rubrics that can be freely accessed.^[6]

Originally developed by faculty members Kurt Fischer and Joe Blatt, the aim of Usable Knowledge is to be a resource for educators who hope to put HGSE research learnings into practice.^[7]

HGSE offers a master of education degree (EdM) with five programs and two doctoral degree programs, a doctor of philosophy in education (PhD) and a doctor of education leadership (EdLD). (The PhD program replaced the EdD program, which enrolled its final cohort of students in fall 2013.^[8][9][10]) In addition, in 2022, the school launched an online, two-year, part-time master's degree in education leadership.

HGSE offers five full-time, one-year, on-campusmaster's programs:

• Education Leadership, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship
• Education Policy and Analysis
• Human Development and Education
• Learning Design, Innovation, and Technology
• Teaching and Teacher Leadership

Students in the master's degree programs can also declare optional concentrations and pursue teacher, principal, or superintendent licensure pathways.

HGSE took possession of Longfellow Hall from Radcliffe College in 1962. The learning activities, along with the library and office were moved to Longfellow's basement. Larsen Hall was dedicated in 1963, completed in 1965, operating as the new classroom and research center of HGSE.

TheMonroe C. Gutman Library is the school's primary library and one of its four main buildings.

• Catherine E. Snow, Patricia Albjerg Graham Professor of Education
• Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Associate Professor of Education and Economics
• Fernando Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of the Practice
• Howard Gardner, John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education
• Jerome Murphy, Harold Howe II Professor of Education
• John B. Willett, Charles William Eliot Professor of Education
• Julie Reuben, Professor of Education
• Meredith L. Rowe, Saul Zaentz Professor of Early Learning and Development
• Richard Murnane, Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society
• Richard Weissbourd, Senior Lecturer of Education
• Thomas Kane, Professor of Education

• Carol Gilligan
• Patricia Graham, professor of education
• Robert Kegan William and Miriam Meehan Professor in Adult Learning and Professional Development
• Lawrence Kohlberg
• Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education, renamed to the Sarah Lawrence-Lightfoot Professor of Education since her retirement^[11]
• Gerald S. Lesser, psychologist who played a major role in developing the educational programming included inSesame Street.^[12]
• Kathleen McCartney, former dean; Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Early Childhood Education; current president ofSmith College
• William G. Perry (psychologist)
• James E. Ryan, former dean; Charles William Eliot Professor of Education; current president of theUniversity of Virginia
• Israel Scheffler
• Charles V. Willie, Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Emeritus

• Andrew McCollum, co-founder ofFacebook; angel investor
• James McGreevey, formerNew Jersey state governor
• Martha Minow, dean,Harvard Law School
• Dianne Morales (born 1967), non-profit executive and political candidate
• Anne Sweeney, president,Disney-ABC Television Group
• Carl Gershman, president of theNational Endowment for Democracy
• Deborah Bial, founder and president of thePosse Foundation
• Denise Juneau, superintendent ofSeattle Public Schools; formerMontana Superintendent of Public Instruction
• Elizabeth Dole, former United States Senator from North Carolina and wife ofBob Dole
• Geoffrey Canada, founder,Harlem Children's Zone
• Guadalupe Guerrero, superintendent ofPortland Public Schools
• Jason Kamras, 2005 National Teacher of the Year and superintendent ofRichmond Public Schools
• Joanne V. Creighton, former president ofMount Holyoke College
• Jodi Picoult, American author
• Joseph Lekuton, Kenyan politician
• Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator; first woman to receive an Ed.D. from HGSE
• Michael Johnston, Colorado state senator, co-founder ofNew Leaders for New Schools
• Neal Baer, executive producer,Law and Order: SVU; former executive producer and writer,ER
• Nínive Clements Calegari, CEO of826 National and founding executive director of826 Valencia
• Robyn Ochs, bisexual and LGBT rights activist, speaker
• Marvin Ronning, education and environmental advocate; senior administrator at the Rhode Island Free Clinic
• Rhea Paul, speech and language disorder researcher
• Timothy Lannon, president ofCreighton University
• Debbie Ricker, interim president ofHood College
• Theodore R. Sizer, dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education (1964-1972); headmaster,Phillips Andover Academy (1972-1981); founder of theCoalition of Essential Schools,Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, andFrancis W. Parker Charter Essential School; author of numerous books on public education reform
• Clint Smith, writer and educator
• Sandra Sucher, business executive; professor,Harvard Business School
• William E. Trueheart, president ofBryant University, nonprofit CEO
• Joan Wexler, dean and president ofBrooklyn Law School
• Peggy R. Williams, former president ofIthaca College
• Frank H. Wu, president ofQueens College, City University of New York
• Zahia Marzouk, an Egyptian social worker and feminist who founded Egypt's first family planning association
• Ronald F. Levant, a psychologist and professor who co-founded the field of the psychology of men and masculinities

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