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.^[1]
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