How We Can Better Support Refugees in Education
Harvard Professor Sarah Dryden-Peterson knows that we can do a lot better for the nearly 30 million refugees in the world. As an expert on refugee education, she says education needs to create better ...
6 Apr 202226min
What Global Innovations Changed Education During the Pandemic
A silver lining of the pandemic, says Harvard Professor Fernando Reimers, was the push for education to innovate. Through the pandemic, Reimers set out to study how education systems around the world ...
30 Mar 202230min
Creating Educational Spaces Full of Joy and Justice
Juliana Urtubey, the 2021 National Teacher of the Year recipient, knows firsthand the importance of valuing all parts of a student’s identity. As a first generation, bilingual immigrant, Urtubey bring...
23 Mar 202223min
What it Takes to Be a Great University
Harvard Professor Dick Light has visited 260 college campuses talking to administrators, faculty, and students to figure out what sets a great university apart from an okay one. It turns out there are...
16 Mar 202230min
Will Teachers Stay or Will They Go?
Since the start of the pandemic, education has grappled with a looming threat of teacher shortages and a mass exodus of teachers. Elizabeth Steiner, a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, has re...
9 Mar 202215min
Is the College Enrollment Decline Really a Crisis?
For the past decade, college enrollments have steadily been on the decline. The pandemic appears to have accelerated such drops with reports of more than a million fewer students attending college tod...
2 Mar 202222min
What is Happening with Critical Race Theory in Education?
When Gloria Ladson-Billings set out in the 1990s to adapt critical race theory from law to education, she couldn’t have predicted that it would become the focus of heated school debates today.In recen...
23 Feb 202224min
How Remote Learning Negatively Affected Children and Why it Matters
Before the pandemic hit, Harvard Professor Stephanie Jones and Lecturer Emily Hanno were already tracking young children's development as part of the Early Learning Study at Harvard. As the pandemic b...
16 Feb 202221min
