[Assam] Interesting Education info: Harvard GSE News: April 2007

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  Graduate School of Education News   April 2007
  Features    Gypsy to Rock Star 
When Claudia Carroll, Ed.M.'02, walked into a small public elementary school in Yongding Village, Taiwan, to teach art and English, she was treated better than a VIP: she was treated like a bona fide rock star. 
  Emma Willard: As Important as Thomas Jefferson?
In her class, The History of Women's Education in the United States, Lecturer Sally Schwager, Ed.M.'76, C.A.S.'78, Ed.D.'82, shines a light on unheralded women in education. 
  McCartney Discusses NICHD Early Child Care Study on NPR 
Dean Kathleen McCartney participated in a panel discussion on NPR to discuss the most recent findings of the he National Institute of Child Health and Human Development’s Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development 
  Report Concludes U.S. Needs to Provide More Support for International Studies
Professor Fernando Reimers was one of 13 experts on a panel to conduct research on how much change has occurred in foreign area expertise and foreign language in U.S. schools over the past 50 years. 
  Usable Knowledge: Early Childhood Education and Beyond
Lecturer Jacqueline Zeller highlights the importance of teacher-student relationships for building students’ sense of security and the foundations for their learning success in school. 
  The Mathematics of Language
Doctoral student Maria Martiniello says that — for English-language learners — success on the math section of a standardized test may have little to do with numbers and more to do with words. 
  Usable Knowledge — Popping the Question: How Can Schools Engage Families in Education?
HGSE Lecturer Karen Mapp discusses how to enhance family engagement by linking it to learning in school. 
   Visible Rights: Photography for and by Youth
Associate Professor Wendy Luttrell recently traveled to Sao Paulo, Brazil, where she was co-organizer of Visible Rights: Photography for and by Youth, a conference designed to identify best practices among leading practitioners, artists, and scholars who use photography to promote children's agencies and civic participation. 
  Usable Knowledge: The Heart of Data Wise 
HGSE Professors Richard Murnane and Kathryn Boudett, and doctoral student Elizabeth City describe insights drawn from continuing research about how to best teach educators to use the Data Wise improvement process to turn schools into learning organizations. 
  Usable Knowledge: A Practical Reader in Universal Design for Learning
A review of the book by Lecturer David Rose and Anne Meyer in which they argue that by utilizing the principles of UDL, we can begin to address a long-standing educational challenge: expanding learning opportunities for all learners. 
  Singer Prize to Acknowledge Teacher Impact on Students 
As part of a new award given by the dean’s office, the Singer Prize for Excellence in Secondary Teaching will recognize the extraordinary work of four teachers in the world. 
  Potential to Change the World
Sonya Anderson, Ed.D.'05, is education program director for the Oprah Winfrey Foundations, and the main educational decisionmaker behind the development of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy, a school dedicated to educating South African girls which opened early this year. 
  To view a more complete list of feature stories, please visit the HGSE News home page.
  EVENTS  Askwith Education Forums  April 3: The Education of Ms. Groves: Experiences of a First-Year Teacher
This discussion will focus on the challenges new teachers face and the current research on how best to recruit, train, support, and retain a strong teaching force.
  April 17: Can a Military Model for Adolescent Education Help Close Achievement Gaps? 
Hugh Price, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former president/CEO of the National Urban League, believes that the military has insights of great importance for helping low achieving and disengaged adolescents to succeed academically and in life more generally. 
  April 25 : Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family-School Partnerships 
The presenters at this forum will discuss how to form family-school partnerships and how to make them work, from insuring that PTA groups are constructive and inclusive to navigating the complex issues surrounding diversity in the classroom. 
  Other HGSE Events   April 12: HGSE Reception at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting 
If you are planning to attend the AERA annual meeting in Chicago, please be sure to join us for the HGSE reception. Mingle and meet HGSE faculty, alumni, and friends.
  May 3: Burton and Inglis Lecture - Five Minds for the Future
Professor Howard Gardner will speak about his new book, Five Minds for the Future. He will explain why, in the future, it will be important to develop five kinds of minds, both in school and in other educational environments: the disciplined mind, the synthesizing mind, the creating mind, the respectful mind, and the ethical mind. 
  Please check the HGSE Events Calendar frequently for the latest information on upcoming campus events. 
  HGSE In The Media  The following is a list of recent media appearances by HGSE faculty members. Please note: websites are increasingly requiring registration and, in some cases, charging fees for viewing content. Current availability is noted. 
  Tough Report Card on Day Care
"There were four main findings that we reported. The first finding is actually good news and that is that children who attended high quality childcare programs were more likely to score higher on vocabulary tests in grade 5." – Dean Kathleen McCartney (On Point, NPR, 3/27/07) 
  Women Trailblazers Set an Example
"[Drew Faust has] a sharp analytic mind, a broad universitywide perspective, outstanding people skills and a deft administrative style that enables her to get things done." – Professor Judith Singer (Star Gazette, 3/26/07) 
  Putting Assessments to the Test
"A test itself is not valid or invalid. The conclusion you base on the result is valid or invalid." – Professor Daniel Koretz (The Washington Post, 3/26/07) 
  The Achievement Gap, a Look Into Causes
"It's not sustainable for society to educate some people and not others." – Assistant Professor John Diamond (Harvard Gazette, 3/22/07) 
  New Center Asks: Does Merit Pay Work?
"The only caution I would have is that when you look at the evidence on the stability of these rankings of teacher effectiveness as measured by student gains, you see nontrivial differences across subject areas or from year to year." – Professor Richard Murnane (Education Week, 3/19/07. Free registration required.) 
  Patrick’s Education Task
"In picking Paul Reville, the director of the Rennie Center on Education Policy and Research, to head that group, and Bob Antonucci, president of Fitchburg State College, to chair the higher-education task force, Patrick has tapped respected educators." (The Boston Globe, 3/19/07) 
  Foreign Aid
"[There is] no evidence of increased postsecondary enrollment among eligible students in spite of the stated goal to increase access to higher education." – Associate Professor Bridget Terry Long (American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 3/16/07) 
  Easing Rules Over Schools Gains Favor
"It’s pretty clear to everybody that simply granting autonomy isn’t going to be enough. What will make or break this experiment is the support, guidance, direction, additional capacity-building the state is able to give these schools." – Lecturer Paul Reville (Education Week, 3/16/07. Free registration required.) 
  A Vacation from Education?
"The conversation should focus on what is [homework’s] purpose, what are the indicators that identify effective and ineffective homework practices and how does homework contribute to or detract from students' achievement." – Senior Lecturer Thomas Payzant (The Harvard Independent, 3/15/07) 
  The Getting-Into-Preschool Puzzle
"If you can cull evidence from a test, a play session, a home visit, letters of recommendation (yes, the mind boggles), and they point to a consistent pattern, then you know a lot. If, on the other hand, they are wildly inconsistent, you should either watch out or select more data." – Professor Howard Gardner (Slate.com, 3/15/07) 
  Campus Insider: Poltical Picks 
"It will be a partnership with the campuses.... We will be asking campus boards to look at needs, assess their current strengths, look at the mix, and identify any gaps in skills or experience or expertise." – Senior Lecturer Judith McLaughlin (The Boston Globe, 3/11/07) 
  No Parent Left Behind
"The nation's education law has raised awareness about the importance of involving families in the education of their children... People are more aware of the positive link of homeschool partnerships and academic outcomes." – Lecturer Karen Mapp (Southeast Missourian, 3/10/07) 
  Bush Claims About NCLB Questioned
"There’s not any evidence that shows anything has changed." – Professor Daniel Koretz (Education Week, 3/9/07. Free registration required.) 
  HGSE Sponsors Alumni of Color Conference
"An academic conference for students of color in graduate education is unique in the United States, said Richard Reddick, a fifth-year doctoral student at HGSE who is one of 39 founders of the AOCC. 'We couldn’t find anything to copy,' he said of inventing the format a few years ago. 'So we made our own.'" (Harvard Gazette, 3/8/07) 
   What Made Execs Do What They Did?
"A study we published in 2004 found that, although young professionals declared an understanding of, and desire to do, good work, they felt that they had to succeed by whatever means [they needed]." – Professor Howard Gardner (Atlantic Journal Constitution, 3/7/07) 
  Young Scholars Show Findings at HGSE Student Research Conference
"[HGSE's annual Student Research Conference] — in its 12th year, and the only one of its kind in the country — provides a way for first-time education researchers to mingle with their peers, practice presentation skills, and get a sense of emerging scholarship." (Harvard Gazette, 3/1/07) 
  Community Schools and Community-Building
"The school becomes a place to build relationships and get to know each other’s children. It becomes a place where parents can discuss common issues they face raising their children or trying to get GEDs for themselves." – Associate Professor Mark Warren (PTA, 3/07) 
  Please visit our news archive at http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news_events/media/index.html for a more complete listing of appearances of HGSE faculty in the press. 
  Harvard Education Publishing Group  The Harvard Education Press is pleased to announce the release of A Decade of Urban School Reform: Persistence and Progress in the Boston Public Schools, edited by Professor S. Paul Reville with Celine Coggins. In the last decade, the Boston Public Schools has undergone critical reforms that have been of intense interest to school leaders and policymakers throughout the country. Under the leadership of superintendent Thomas Payzant, the Boston schools implemented extensive reform strategies that yielded notable results. Fittingly, at the end of Payzant’s superintendency in September 2006, the Boston Public Schools received the Broad Prize for Urban Education for being the most improved urban school district in the country. A Decade of Urban School Reform looks at this critical era in the Boston schools and distills valuable insights and lessons for school leaders and reformers everywhere. The result is a timely, in-depth contribution to
 the small group of indispensable writings on urban school reform.
  Harvard Family Research Project   Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP) is pleased to announce the newest issue of The Evaluation Exchange on evaluating advocacy and policy change.
  Advocacy that influences or informs public policy has the potential to achieve large-scale results for individuals, families, and communities. Consequently, there is much interest in understanding how to make advocacy and policy change efforts more effective. While previously relegated as "too hard to measure," advocacy evaluation has become a burgeoning field. This 32-page issue of The Evaluation Exchange helps to build this new field by defining the developments that are shaping it and showing how enterprising evaluators, nonprofits, and funders are tackling the advocacy evaluation challenge.
  HFRP's bibliography of family involvement research, published in 2006, is now available online. HFRP has also updated its bibliography of 2005 publications. These two years enjoyed a significant and exciting increase in scholarly output in family involvement. All eight annual family involvment bibliographies on HFRP's website include journal articles, dissertations and theses, books and book chapters, reports, research briefs, and papers.
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