Harvard Graduate School of Education

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Type	Private
Established	1920
Endowment	US$540 million
Dean	Kathleen McCartney
Students	~980
Location	Cambridge , Massachusetts ,
Campus	Urban
Website	gse.harvard.edu

The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University, and is one of the top schools of education in the United States. It was founded in 1920, the same year it invented the Ed.D. degree.

It offers two doctoral programs—the Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) and the Doctor of Educational Leadership (Ed.L.D.)—and thirteen masters programs. These include Arts in Education, Education Policy and Management, Higher Education, International Education Policy, Special Studies, Technology Innovation and Education, Teacher Education, Mind, Brain and Education, Prevention Science and Practice, School Leadership, Human Development and Psychology, Language and Literacy, and Learning and Teaching.

Led by Dean Kathleen McCartney, the mission of HGSE is to prepare leaders in education and to generate knowledge to improve student opportunity, achievement, and success. It seeks to accomplish this mission by operating at the nexus of practice, policy, and research.

Famous people

See also: Harvard University people

Current faculty members include:

• Kathleen McCartney, Dean, Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Early Childhood Education
• Howard Gardner, John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education
• Paul Harris, Professor of Education
• Thomas Kane, Professor of Education
• Dan Koretz, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education
• Susan Moore Johnson Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr. Professor of Teaching and Learning
• Robert Kegan William and Miriam Meehan Professor in Adult Learning and Professional Development
• Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education
• Jerome Murphy, Harold Howe II Professor of Education
• David Perkins, Professor of Education
• Robert Peterkin, Francis Keppel Professor of Educational Policy and Administration
• Fernando Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of Education
• Julie Reuben, Professor of Education
• Jack Shonkoff, B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development
• Judith Singer, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education
• Catherine Snow, Patricia Albjerg Graham Professor of Education
• John B. Willett, Charles William Eliot Professor of Education
• Richard Murnane, Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society
• Hiro Yoshikawa, Professor of Education

Past faculty members include:

• Lawrence Kohlberg
• Carol Gilligan
• Gerald S. Lesser (1926-2010), psychologist who played a major role in developing the educational programming included in Sesame Street.
• Israel Scheffler
• Patricia Graham, Professor of Education
• Charles V. Willie, Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Emeritus

Alumni (master's and doctoral) include :

• Gregory Anrig, former president, Educational Testing Service
• Neal Baer, executive producer, Law and Order: SVU; former executive producer and writer, ER
• Nínive Clements Calegari, CEO of 826 National and founding executive director of 826 Valencia
• Geoffrey Canada, founder, Harlem Children's Zone
• Daniel S. Cheever, Jr., president of Simmons College
• Joanne V. Creighton, president of Mount Holyoke College
• William Fitzsimmons, dean of admission and financial aid, Harvard College
• Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy
• Jason Kamras, 2005 National Teacher of the Year
• Timothy Lannon, President of Creighton University
• James McGreevey, former New Jersey state governor
• Martha Minow, dean, Harvard Law School
• Thomas Payzant, former U.S. Assistant Secretary for Education, former superintendent of Boston Public Schools
• Matthew Pittinsky, founder of Blackboard, Inc.
• Dom Sagolla, co-creator, Twitter
• Peter Segall, former president, Blackboard, Inc.
• James K. Scott, president, Punahou School
• Harvey Siegel, Professor of Philosophy, University of Miami, Department of Philosophy
• Theodore Sizer, former dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education; former headmaster, Phillips Andover Academy
• Peter Smith, president of California State University, Monterey Bay
• Anne Sweeney, president, Disney-ABC Television Group
• Michael Johnston, Colorado state senator, co-founder of New Leaders for New Schools

External links

• Official Web Site