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Published April, May and June 2005

'Dean Carter' to Deliver Commencement Address
Student Speaker Profile
By Lolita Paiewonsky

Nienhuis Announces Departure
OSA, Dean's Office Both Face Vacancies
By Michael Lisman

Campus to Receive Facelift
By Michael Lisman

Op-Ed: Cross-Registration, Fine; Cross-Town Bus, A Problem
University Policy Fails to Build Bridges Between Schools
By Sudesh Ebenezer

HGSE Student Production Debuts: A Review
By Nancy P. Moser

Dean's Decision Prompts Search for Successor
By Andrew K. Mandel

Op-Ed: In Brazil, Looking to Youth As Agents for Change
By Neylar Vilar Lins and Maria Adenil Vieira

Published March 2005

After Three Years at Helm, Lagemann Resigns
'I Had Never Wanted To Be a Dean'
By Andrew K. Mandel

Doctoral Program Faces Changes, Criticism
Elmore Blasts Reorganization, Decision Making Process
By Andrew K. Mandel

Op-Ed: On Turning in a Dissertation
By Kirsten Olson Lanier

Op-Ed: Schools and the "Parallel Power": Capitulate or Resist?
Are Brazilian Drug Lords Part of the Problem or the Solution?
By Nadejda Marques

Arts Review: Oscar Winner Born Into Brothels

Published January / February 2005

Students to Present in Research Conference
By Michael Lisman

Op-Ed: Summers Aside, Is Biology Destiny?
By Nicole D. Shields

Voices For Africa Brings Food For Thought to HGSE
By Saima Gowani

Arts in Ed. Raises Voices, Funds for Tsunami Victims
By Andrew K. Mandel

Spellings Condemns WGBH Cartoon For Promoting Homosexuality
By Michael Lisman

Alumni Postcard: The Dance Instructor
By David Meadow

Op-Ed: Put The Provocative Presidency to Productive Use
By Becky Branting

Case Study Excerpt: The Muscogee Education Movement
By Deidra Suwanee Dees

Published November / December 2004
Spellings Emerges From Shadows to Cabinet Post
HGSE Sounds Off On Bush's Nominee for U.S. Secretary of Education
By Michael Lisman

Mazyck Wins Rhodes
Ed.M. Student Shares Nail-Biting Details of National Competition
By Jen Tutak

Dahroug Down, But Not Out
HGSE '04 Grad Makes Strong Showing in State Senate Race
By Juno Nakamura

Reimers Receives Tenure
Dean Creates Office of International Education
By Andrew K. Mandel

Law School's Proof Offers Layers of Mystery
Recent Play Featured Arts in Education Student
Special to The Appian

Achieving the Promise of Brown: New Research on the Role of Teachers in the Multicultural Classroom
Askwith Lecture Series Feature
by Tucker McCravy

First to Represent Students on Allston
Dean Selects Higher Ed Doctoral Student for University Committee
By Jen Tutak

Panel Assesses Progress on 'Education For All'
Summers Introduces Speakers at Recent Askwith Forum
By Juno Nakamura

Published Monday, October 25, 2004
New Student Group Addresses Needs of Refugees
By Juno Nakamura
Jennifer Zimmerman, Ed.M. '05, found a kindred spirit this month.

Published Monday, October 18, 2004
Students to Serve on Allston Committee
By Jennifer Tutak
University officials are expected this week to name two students to a new Master Planning Advisory Committee for the institution’s expansion into Allston.

Doctoral Student Offers Advantages to SGA
By Andrew K. Mandel
Inevitably, students end up wanting to kiss Cheng Zhu.

Published Monday, October 11, 2004
Officers Reveal Pasts, Plans
By The Appian Staff
If they can leverage their eclectic resumes (Jennifer Cromwell worked both in a backwoods hut and a consulting firm), lofty ambitions (Sannisha Dale plans to become President of Jamaica), and substantial goals (Ann Nkiruka Ifekwunigwe hopes to address the "crisis in faculty diversity"), this year's Student Government Association will be a force to be reckoned with.

Damasio Kicks Off Conference
By David Cárdenas
Twenty years after Hobbes Professor of Cognition and Education Howard Gardner proposed the theory of multiple intelligences, neuroscience is now uncovering very solid proof of its existence.

Published Monday, October 4, 2004
Guide to Vegetarian Life in Boston
By Nicole D. Shields

Strom Helps Schools Face History
By Tucker McCravy
In the semester's first International Education Policy Seminar, Adam Strom of Facing History, Facing Ourselves explained that one of the greatest obstacles to open dialogue in communities that have faced a terrific social upheaval is the emotional trauma associated with it.

Published Monday, September 6, 2004
Guide to Quick Eats in Cambridge
By Alozie F. Nwosu

Published August 23, 2004
Writing Center Disbanded
By Andrew K. Mandel
Graduate school officials have disbanded the decade-old Writing, Research and Teaching Center (WRTC) and transferred its responsibilities to Gutman Library staff and doctoral program administrators.

Published May 31, 2004
Allston Report Spurs Talk of Two-Year Ed.M.
By Andrew K. Mandel
The move to Allston could radically redefine graduate study in education at Harvard. In this month’s Task Force on Professional Schools Report, the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) has revealed the possibility of doubling the coursework for masters students, beginning an internship requirement for Ed.D. candidates, and creating a new interdisciplinary center for school improvement if and when HGSE moves across the Charles River.

Faculty, Trump Offer Advice to Graduates
By Joanna Durham
On June 10, 2004, 692 students are slated to graduate with masters or doctorates of education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The question looming on the minds of many graduates is “What will I do next?”

Diamond Named Assistant Professor
By The Appian Staff
A sociologist studying race, ethnicity, social class and school practices has been named an assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE).

Published May 24, 2004
SGA Presents First Student Educator Award
By Linda Abarbanell
Gabrielle Rappolt-Schlichtman, a fourth-year doctoral student in Human Development and Psychology (HDP), has been named the first-ever recipient of the Student Educator Award. The award, created by the Student Government Association, recognizes one non-faculty educator at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) who has shown excellence in the areas of teaching, advising, and/or mentorship for the 2003-04 academic year.

Commencement Speaker Provides Sneak Peek
By The Appian Staff
Tracy Wagner was procrastinating from writing a paper by checking her e-mail when she learned that she would be delivering the 2004 Commencement Student Address. The Appian convinced Wagner to procrastinate some more – by answering a few questions in anticipation of the big day.

Published May 17, 2004
Don’t Cry for Me GSE
Conference on Education in Argentina
By Valeria Fontanals and Maria Paz Ferreres
Domingo F. Sarmiento, considered Argentina’s “father of education,” was inspired by his trip to Boston in the late 19th Century. On Saturday, April 24th, another group dedicated to improving educational opportunities in Argentina gathered in the area for inspiration. Sarmiento’s inspiration came from Horace and Mary Peabody Mann and led him to introduce several progressive education policies in Argentina while this group sought inspiration from each other.

Published May 10, 2004
SGA Denied Representation on Allston Task Force
Summers, Lagemann Deflect Request
By Eric Kinne
Three weeks after he sent Harvard President Lawrence Summers a formal resolution requesting a student representative on the Allston Task Force, Michael Novielli received a response. It wasn’t what the Student Government Association (SGA) Officer of Student Life was expecting: it was a no.

Harvard Square Homeless Share Stories of Survival
By Jamie Schultz
These are the stories of four men, four members of our community. There are no statistics. No policy statements. Only a glimpse into the lives of four people--four people whose voices need to be heard—because in those four faces and voices are the shadows and silence of hundreds.

Murnane: Education Must Adapt to Changing Jobs
In a "Google" World, Cognitive Skill Trumps Content
By Michael Lisman
“My only crime is being an American,” commented one frustrated audience member at the May 3rd Askwith Forum, referring to his recent lay-off from a tech company that he says replaced him with a worker overseas.

Alvarez Tells Students: "Si, Se Puede"
Mexican Educator Pushes Listeners to Believe in the Capacity for Change
By Rebekka Olsen
Alvarez believes, on the most basic level, that people and school communities made up of potential change agents can surprise you, and that often they are more capable, resourceful and knowledgeable than you would ever have imagined. In addition, he believes in the power of commitment and self-evaluation. Even when you don’t reach all the goals that you set, it is important that you set them, and work to attain them.

Luttrell Named First Aronson Chair
By Julia Laughlin
Associate Professor Wendy Luttrell, a faculty member at HGSE, was recently named the first Nancy Pforzheimer Aronson Junior Chair, an endowed professorship for a non-tenured teacher, which will support her research as long as she remains on the HGSE faculty.

Merrow Headlines Journey Through Education History
Panel Travels Through Education History
Special to The Appian
The educational pendulum is still in full swing. Using his film, "The Merrow Report: In Schools We Trust," to help take the long view of the history of American education at a recent Askwith Forum, education journalist John Merrow, Ed.D. 1973, showed how the United States has moved from reform to reform without empirically discovering what actually works in the classroom, or why.

School Prepares Three Areas to Dissolve
Administrators Hope for Increased Efficiency and Collaboration
By Courtney Young
Under the current administrative system at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), it’s possible for one course with 60 students to receive one Teaching Fellow – and another course with 20 students to receive two TFs, depending on the “area” in which the course is offered and overall enrollment numbers in each area.

Registrar Worker By Day, Piano Man By Night
By Sarah Grafman
Imagine if Elton John hired The Strokes to be his backing band, fired the guitar players, and they didn't practice... The Appian fires five questions at HGSE's own Ethan Kreitzer.

Administration Needs Better Response to Diversity Drought
By Minnie Quach
HGSE'S low representation of faculty of color results in huge gaps in other areas of the school community. The lack of diverse faculty is linked to the inadequate course offerings from different perspectives, the lack of potential mentors and advisors for students of color or students from other underrepresented backgrounds or interests; and increased feelings of frustration, isolation, and invalidation among many students who are disappointed with the institution’s lack of concern with issues of diversity.

Student-Led Initiative Brings The World to Local Schools
By Rebekka Olsen
Professor Fernando Reimers, director of the International Education Policy (IEP) program at HGSE, encourages us to question the nature of what children learn about international issues and global citizenship in their classrooms. “What do children in the Americas learn about each other? About the interdependent nature of the challenges they face? About the opportunities for collaboration across national boundaries?”

The Ice Queen Melteth
By Rhonda Henderson
Damien doesn’t like light-skinned people. Light-skinned black people, that is. He said so one afternoon as I sat next to him in his French class, where I was substituting for his usual teacher.

Published May 03, 2004
Suarez-Orozcos to Depart for NYU
By Andrew K. Mandel
Thomas Professor of Education Marcelo Suarez-Orozco will become the first Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Education and Globalization at New York University (NYU) in September.

Colorful Commencement Garb Empties Wallets
By Jessica Aliberti and Andrew K. Mandel
When masters candidate Lynn Rasmussen heard that the Coop was charging $65 for a one-day rental of a cap and gown, she did a double-take. “Is this just a deposit? I get my money back, right?” she asked the clerk. “Honestly, I wanted to make sure that I didn’t make a mistake and actually buy the gown,” she told us later.

Published April 26, 2004
Appian Exclusive: Interview with Rod Paige
By Michael Lisman
I found that in Houston, many of the urban and poor school districts were really better funded than some of the other schools that were not eligible for the kind of federal subsidies that were coming to them. So it’s kind of a murky idea that I think is not fully understood. And the NCLB Act is specifically targeted for that community, and for those students – that’s its whole purpose.

Secretary of Education Defends “No Child Left Behind”
Draws “Contemporary Parallel” to Brown v. Board of Education
by Michael Lisman
United States Secretary of Education Rod Paige knows first-hand about the cruelty of segregation, and he has a lot to say about it. “I wonder if people who haven’t lived through it can imagine segregation,” he remarked to the largely white crowd Thursday evening at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, inaugurating the conference “50 Years After Brown v. Board of Education.”

Project Zero’s Seidel Assumes AIE Helm
By Andrew K. Mandel
Earlier this year, Project Zero, the famed research group that investigates critical and creative thinking, began discussions about how its ideas and scholars could be better integrated into the Arts in Education Program (AIE) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). Little did Project Zero Director Steve Seidel know that, a few months later, HGSE Dean Ellen Condliffe Lagemann would ask him to run the entire masters program.

Published April 19, 2004
School Prepares Three Areas to Dissolve
Administrators Hope for Increased Efficiency and Collaboration
By Courtney Young
Under the current administrative system at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), it’s possible for one course with 60 students to receive one Teaching Fellow – and another course with 20 students to receive two TFs, depending on the “area” in which the course is offered and overall enrollment numbers in each area.

SIT: A New Space for Critical Reflection
By Liz Sepúlveda & Rhonda Henderson
May, 2003. A letter arrives, prompting us to read Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire. Once at HGSE, the situation was different. Deep discussion about critical pedagogy was nowhere to be seen. What was Freire talking about? What could we learn and apply in classrooms?

Wrestling with the Duopoly
Part One of A Series: Education and Election 2004
By David Meadow
Mr. Badnarik stated that school should enable people to “provide for themselves and participate in the country’s government.” Ventura’s philosophy on education was that students “learn the basic essentials so that they can go out in the world… function, and be literate, and knowledgeable in society.”

Published April 12, 2004
The Way of the Ancestors
A Poem Inspired By the Alumni of Color Conference
By Lolita Paiewonsky
Follow the paths their feet trod
Feel their breaths, heavy on your neck.
Sit in the ancient circle,
Blood memories
taking shape behind the eyes of
strife, behind the eyes of triumph, the
lessons of warriors and chieftains.

She’s Come a Long Way, Baby
An HGSE Student Profile
By Julia Laughlin
Most students write 10-page compositions for their final assignments. For Judah Schwartz’s course, Amy Warren handed in 124 pages. Warren chuckles as she recalls that she thought that going to such great lengths was “normal.”

World Bank Pioneer Katherine Marshall Visits IEP
International Education Policy Monday Seminar Series
By Katy Attanasi
“There is no silver bullet for development work and, it is much less easy to see clear paths,” began Katherine Marshall in her talk to the IEP cohort last Monday. Marshall shared her own story and addressed some of the issues pertinent to her work as the Director and Counselor to the President for the Development Dialogue on Values and Ethics for the World Bank.

Published March 29, 2004
SGA Denies Latino Graduation Funding For Third Time
Officials cite failure to draft proposal correctly
By Eric Kinne
According to the old adage, the third time is usually the charm. But this was not the case for Comunidad Latina, a Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) student organization that attempted unsuccessfully to secure $1,000 from the Student Government Association (SGA) for the third time at Monday night’s meeting.

An Afternoon With Isabel Londono
International Education Policy Monday Seminar Series
By Michael Lisman
Isabel Londono speaks from experience when she implores you to ask yourself: “am I constructing the story of my life that I would be proud to tell?”

Published March 22, 2004
Individualized Programs Vanish
Cohorts Bring Structure and Community, Officials Say
By Courtney Young
Ten years ago, 60 percent of masters students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) enrolled in the individualized program, which meant they chose their courses with few restrictions or required courses. Today, that number is 10 percent, according to James Stiles, associate dean for degree programs.

Conference Honors “Those Who Came Before”
By Lolita Paiewonsky
In a weekend of reflection and reunion, over 200 current and former students and faculty members, as well as staff, family members, and supporters, assembled for the second annual Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) Alumni of Color Conference earlier this month.

MIT Grad Opens Inman Square Bookstore
By Sarah Grafman
“Everyone has always wondered what ‘Lorem Ipsum’ is, and now there’s an answer,” Matt Mankin says. While Mankin may use the word “everyone” liberally, his new bookstore – with a name inspired by that pseudo-Latin phrase traditionally used as dummy text by graphic designers – may get people talking nonetheless.

Published March 15, 2004
SGA Asks for Official Voice on Allston
Dean Tells Students to E-mail Their Ideas
By Eric Kinne
As the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) continues to plan for its move across the river to Allston, Student Government Association (SGA) members are becoming increasingly concerned that they aren’t involved in the process.

Arts Education Pioneer to Step Down
Students and Staff Laud Hoffmann Davis
By Jesse Hardman
HGSE Professor Jessica Hoffmann Davis, the co-creator of the Arts in Education (AIE) program and the only official director the program has ever known, is stepping away from her position at the end of the semester, a move she intended to make “eight years ago, five years ago, and most recently a few months ago.”

Scheman Recounts Lessons Learned in Latin America
International Education Policy Monday Seminar Series
By Michael Lisman
Raised in Brooklyn and educated during the formation of the post-war multilateral international bodies like the United Nations, he became fascinated with the role such organizations could play in a rapidly changing world. After finishing law school, he traveled to Brazil on a Fulbright scholarship, which helped shape his life-long focus on inter-American relations.

Published March 8, 2004
Forum Features Female Activists
2004 International Forum
By Andrew K. Mandel and Lolita Paiewonsky
For five women accustomed to creating a stir for their respective causes, the 2004 International Forum – itself a campus controversy this year – was a particularly placid evening of preaching to the choir.

Desperate to Drop?
With the add/drop deadline approaching, HGSE students share their best classes
By Alissa Farber
You’re panicking. One of your classes is not what you expected. You didn’t shop anything else two weeks ago. With the add/drop deadline looming, you’re looking for an alternative to save your semester. We’ve polled some masters candidates to come to the rescue.

IEP Seminars Update
Up Close and Personal with Puryear and González Ibáñez
By Michael Lisman
Joanna Durham and Zubair Kassam (both Ed.M. students in the IEP program) successfully ushered in the new format by hosting Dr. Jeff Puryear of the DC-based Inter-American Dialogue (IAD) on Monday, February 23.

SRC 2004 Gives Students a Chance to Shine
By Andrew K. Mandel and Lolita Paiewonsky
Professor Emeritus Charles Willie offered Christopher Lohse six words that graduate students live to hear: "You should get that published immediately."

The World Social Forum in Mumbai
An HGSE Student's Reflections on the Experience of a Lifetime
By Sharmi Surianarain
From the very moment I stepped into the venue—I felt the rush of being among (100,000!) people that were passionate about pressing issues of social concern around the world. Groups organized around every imaginable theme, from a Free Tibet delegation and anti-war movements to disability rights activists and commercial sex workers unions, vied for your audio-visual attention.

Administration Could Improve Registration
A Letter to the Editor
By Kiernan Mathews
Thank you for Becky Branting's article on this semester's surprisingly harrowing registration process ("Students See Stars," 2/23/04). There are several irritating factors, however, that Ms. Branting overlooked. All of them are within the control of the HGSE faculty and administration.

From Carnival to Cambridge
Brazil’s Former Education Chief Shares Vision
By Joanna Durham
"Wake up, Brazil, it's time for school" was one of several campaigns initiated by Paulo Renato Souza, Brazil’s former Minister of Education.This wasn’t just a cheery slogan, but a plea for change. According to a United Nations report, hundreds of thousands of Brazilian children weren't in school when Souza took office in 1994.

Published February 23, 2004
HGSE Sends International Forum Off-Campus
Nienhuis Cites School's 'Professional Mission'
By Andrew K. Mandel
The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) instructed the annual student-run International Forum to relocate off-campus after organizers booked one of the “Guerrilla Girls” as a panelist for the event.

‘Haunting’ Exhibit Depicts Life on the Streets
By Lolita Paiewonsky
Haunting. That’s what life on the streets can be, and too often is. And that’s how poet Peter Zmuidzinas (pronounced: “Zhmoy-di-nas”) and photographer Joseph Smooke captured it in their show, what flowers to bring.

Body Image With Ginger Spice and Miss America
Thoughts on a Forum About Eating Disorders
By David Meadow
Have you ever had a sister who was slowly destroying herself? Did she manage to conceal this from you even as you communicated with her on a regular basis? Dr. Rebecca Knapp’s sister did just that.

Published February 16, 2004
Students See Stars
Forty Percent of HGSE Courses Limit Enrollment
By Becky Branting
An asterisk is clearly not welcome while planning one’s semester. Sixty-five of them peppered the pages of the Spring 2004 course catalogue.

Developing Others or Ourselves?
Conference on Africa Questions the Role of Education in Development
By Joanna E. Durham
What can Harvard offer a continent of people confronting an insufficient educational system, poverty, and an expanding HIV/AIDS crisis?

Published December 15, 2003
Gender Studies Appears to Disappear
By Andrew K. Mandel
In March of 2000, the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) voted unanimously to create a masters program in gender studies, “the first program of its kind in the nation,” said Jerry Murphy, HGSE dean at the time. Three years later, the administration has closed enrollment to the masters program, leaving students who came to Harvard to pursue gender studies mystified by the lack of courses and advisors in their area of interest – and what feels like the school’s sudden lack of commitment to their field.

Core Course Casts a Wide Net
By Sarah Grafman
With student interests ranging from arts therapy to international educational policy, the creators of a core course designed to relate to every student at HGSE have a tall order to fill. Matthew Miller and Deborah Helsing, the teaching fellows for the spring course, "Multiple Perspectives on Educational Problems", said HGSE needs a school-wide class that bridges the disciplines in a way that mirrors problem-solving in the real world.

Latin American Educators With an Eye on Educational Development
By Michael Lisman
While Noel McGinn offered wisdom and perspective on the macro-level of education in Latin America, Margarita Maria Zorrilla Fierro spoke on December 1st about the specific case of systemized education research in Mexico, one of the largest and most populated countries in Latin America, yet one of the most socio-economically stratified.

Murder, Mystery, Mayhem…and Poetry?
By Lolita Paiewonsky
In 1865, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes and James Russell Lowell gathered periodically at 105 Brattle Street, just blocks from where the Harvard Graduate School of Education now stands, to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. But what would have happened had there been a string of killings in Cambridge right at that time that copycatted the tortures in the very same 700-year-old epic?

Published December 08, 2003
Committee Names Top Choice for Allston Site
By Eric Kinne
Ohiri Field, in between North Harvard Street and the Harvard Business School, is the Allston Planning Committee’s top choice for the site of the new Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) campus, according to Nancy Nienhuis, director of the Office of Student Affairs and a member of the committee.

¡Da-ance! ¡Ba-i-la-a!
By Lolita Paiewonsky
A Poetic Salute to the Multicultural Festival 2003.

Re-Inventing a Nation: Gore Vidal in Askwith Lecture Hall
By David Meadow
He stands at his fullest height, decked out in an impeccably elegant suit. This is Gore Vidal and you are looking at the back of his book, Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, so treat said volume with respect.

Art Is Spoken Here
By Lolita Paiewonsky
In just its second year, the complement to the annual Multicultural Festival, held to a standing-room only crowd overflowing into the hallway at Cronkhite Hall last month, was the Multicultural Art Exhibition.

Published November 24, 2003
A Terrorist Grows in Cambridge
By Curtis Fazen
No doubt the Harvard community will find Alston Chase’s new book Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist most interesting. This is not a tabloid biography. This is a thoroughly researched examination of Ted Kaczynski (Harvard College ’62).

Beating the Winter Blues, Part One: Theater Roundup
By Jamie Schultz
Although the warmth of the sun may have faded, the cultural opportunities have done nothing of the sort; in fact, the winter months are the "busy season" for most theater companies.

Not Your Average Overachiever: An HGSE Student Profile
By Julia Laughlin
Upon first meeting Yoan Anguilet, you’ll know right away that he is not your typical Harvard overachiever. The Ed.M. candidate in the Technology in Education program opens his mouth and out comes anl air of glamour and a certain je ne sais quoi.

Published November 10, 2003
Wanted: Faculty of Color
By Joanna Durham
The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) is placing national advertisements to recruit potential faculty members of color, but school officials have told students not to expect major progress in these searches anytime soon.

Professor Aims to Spur ‘Essential Conversation’
By Courtney Young
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot’s second grade teacher told her parents that Sara “might not be college material.” Lawrence-Lightfoot, the Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education, Macarthur Fellow and eminent sociologist, has proven she is more than college material, but she still recalls those stinging words.

Samoff Discusses Failures of “Education For All” in Africa
By Michael Lisman
Imagine teaching a class of one hundred nine year-olds in a wooden shack built 15 by 20 feet – without electricity, textbooks, or even a basic education of your own to rely on. Then again, imagine being one of those six 6 year-olds.

Urban Districts Win $3 Million Advice
By Eric Kinne
Through a $3 million project established by the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and the Harvard Business School (HBS), Arne Duncan and eight of his colleagues from urban school districts across the country -- from Boston to Chicago to San Diego – will soon return to school to hone their knowledge of both business and education.

Got Issues? Dialoguing with the SGA
By Laura Ax
The Graduate School of Education’s Student Government Association held the first-ever Community Dialogue on Wednesday, November 5th. The meeting, envisioned as an opportunity for the HGSE student body to actively participate and voice concerns in student issues, catalyzed conversation about issues ranging from diversity and exclusion, collective impact, the Alston move, and school cross-pollination, among others.

Published October 27, 2003
Harvard Plans New HGSE Campus in Allston
By Andrew Mandel
The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) will be leaving Cambridge and moving to Allston, according to a series of “planning assumptions” unveiled today by University President Lawrence Summers.

Snow, Kegan to Pilot Core Course in Spring
By Sarah Grafman
With the intent of creating a common intellectual experience for students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), Shattuck Professor of Education Catherine Snow and Meehan Professor in Adult Learning Robert Kegan will co-teach a prototype for a core course, entitled “Multiple Perspectives on Educational Problems,” next semester.

OECD Report: Educational Spending Doesn’t Add Up
By Joanna Durham
The United States invests more money in its schools than most industrialized nations, but you would not know it from the way its students are performing in the classroom, according to a recent report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

For Crying Out Loud: Kivy Launches Lecture Series
By Lolita Paiewonsky
You don't need to leave Appian Way to hear provocative lectures from renowned arts scholars or behold professional-quality performances by fellow students.

“The Gatekeeper” short on message
By Jaime Guzman
On a narrative level, “The Gatekeeper” is the story of Adam Fields, a U.S. Border patrol agent who is a member of a vigilante militia group bent on stopping undocumented Mexicans from crossing the border at any cost.

Published October 20, 2003
Hotel to House Displaced Students For Months
By Laura Ax
Because of unexpected delays during an extensive renovation of 29 Garden Street, about 150 Harvard graduate students, faculty and staff will be living two miles away, at the Kendall Square Marriott Hotel and Residence Inn, until at least November. The Harvard Housing Office negotiated a hotel bill of about $750,000 for the three-month stay, according to Susan Keller, the University’s director of residential real estate.

In a 10-6 Vote, SGA Ends Alcohol Funding
By Andrew Mandel
In one of its first official pieces of business, the SGA voted 10-6 to change the policies that govern its $20,000 budget, creating a new category of "never funded" to its existing policy of "generally allowed" and "generally disallowed" grant requests. Alcohol is the only item in the new category.

The Procrastinator: Head of the Charles Edition
By Aaron Owen
Don’t know the difference between a coxswain and a single sculler? It’s okay. You will quickly learn the lingo at the 39th annual Head of the Charles Regatta, a two-day rowing extravaganza.

Published October 13, 2003
Chen Offers ‘Ecstasy’
By Andrew Mandel
Milton Chen tells the story of the man from 1903 who visits the present day and is boggled by the automobiles, shopping centers, doctors’ offices and factories he sees. But when the man goes into a school, he is finally at ease. There’s the blackboard, and there’s the teacher at the front of the classroom. The chalk may come in different colors, but everything else is as it was.

'Bins' Disappear; Enrollment Hits Five-Year High
By Alissa Farber
Prospective students will no longer apply to the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) by choosing one of three “bins”—Administration, Planning and Social Policy, Human Development and Psychology, and Learning and Teaching.

International Educator Points to Big Opportunities
By Michael Lisman
Dr. Sherry Mueller was watching ABC's “Nightline” when she caught an interview with the South African minister for education. She quickly recognized him as a former exchange participant she had sent to communities in Alabama and Oklahoma to study successful integration efforts in the U.S. twelve years earlier, before his country became a democracy.

A Handful of Votes Separated Candidates
By The Appian Staff
The thinnest of margins decided this year’s Student Government Association (SGA) elections. According to results released by the Office of Student Affairs (OSA) Tuesday, Minnie Quach won the SGA presidency by garnering eight votes more than the nearest candidate, Jenai Emmel. Four votes separated Julie Vultaggio, the new vice president of academics, from Rosalyn Kempf.

Published Monday, October 6, 2003
IEP's Quach Wins Presidency
By Rachel Becker
She was once a film concentrator at Harvard College who never imagined she'd run for office of any kind. Now Minnie Quach, Ed.M. '04, is an International Education masters candidate -- and the newly elected Student Government Association (SGA) president.

Noguera Recruited to NYU; Students Follow
By Andrew Mandel
Leslie Rubin, Ed.M. '04, remembers sitting in the second row of her Urban Education module this summer when her professor, Pedro Noguera, announced he would be leaving the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) for New York University (NYU).

GSE Elects New Slate of Officers
By The Appian Staff
Despite initial glitches that delayed electronic ballotting, the Graduate School of Education’s Student Government Association (SGA) posted its largest voter turnout in recent memory, according to Nancy Nienhuis, director of the Office of Student Affairs.

Published Monday, March 3, 2003
Harvard Idol
By Curtis Fazen
The GSE's own Dorinda Carter and Heather Harding took second and third prize in the University-wide rendition of the popular TV show, "American Idol."

Reddick Conquers TV's Jeopardy
By Curtis Fazen
GSE doctoral student Richard Reddick is a game show veteran, having appeared first in "Wheel of Fortune," "Ben Stein's Money," and then "Jeopardy!"

Eye Contact in Harvard Square
By Pedro Medina
A visitor to Cambridge suggests a simple way for Harvard students to build social capital: look at one another.