NEWS
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).John B. Diamond, who delivered a guest
lecture on campus earlier this year, appears to fill several
of the academic gaps created when former Dimon Professor
of Communities and Schools Pedro Noguera, who has similar
research interests, left HGSE for New York University
last fall.
What
I Learned at Harvard: The “Informal Curriculum”
By Jamie Schultz
When you decide to travel to a new destination, you
experience excitement, nervousness, trepidation and change.
New expectations and an explosion of diversity: diversity
in views, actions, ways of living, and ways of thinking.
Throughout this year, we have all learned a great deal—how
to be a more effective principal, what part of a child’s
brain is “lighting up” when they read phonemes,
or how to successfully run a video conference in Japan.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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