Harvard Graduate School of Education
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| Established: | 1920 |
| Type: | Private |
| Endowment: | US$540 million |
| Dean: | Kathleen McCartney |
| Students: | ~980 |
| Location: | Cambridge, Massachusetts,  |
| Campus: | Urban |
| Website: | www.gse.harvard.edu |
The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) is a graduate school at Harvard University, and is one of the top schools of education in the United States.[citation needed]
It offers six doctoral concentrations and thirteen masters programs. These include Arts in Education, Education Policy and Management, Higher Education, International Education Policy, the Specialized Program, Technology Innovation and Education, Teacher Education, Mind, Brain and Education, Risk and Prevention, 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.
[edit] Famous people
See also: Harvard University people
Current faculty members include:
- Kathleen McCartney, Dean, Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Early Childhood Education
- Howard Gardner, the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education
- Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, the Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education
- Julie Reuben, Professor of Education
- Judith Singer, James Bryant Conant 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:
- Gary Orfield, Professor of Education and Social Policy
- Charles V. Willie, Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Emeritus
- Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, Professor of Education
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
- Jason Kamras, 2005 National Teacher of the Year
- James McGreevey, former New Jersey state governor
- Thomas Payzant, former U.S. Assistant Secretary for Education, former superintendent of Boston Public Schools
- Matthew Pittinsky, founder of Blackboard, Inc.
- James K. Scott, president, Punahou School
- 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
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