Simply handing a child a book is only a small piece of the summer reading challenge. “It’s not just one book and done, it’s a ...

Less recognized has been the impact of the air we breathe indoors, even though we spend about 90% of our time inside, says Lindsey Burghardt, one of the authors of Air Quality Affects Early Childhood ...

YING XU: It is actually very important to first think about what drives children's development. It is obviously a very complicated process. But one key factor is children's social interactions with ...

My son’s binder was a mess. Loose papers were falling out, others looked like they had been balled up or stepped on, some more than once. The binder itself was bent in one corner.

The notion of multiple intelligences — and Gardner’s follow-up ideas about teaching individual students in the ways they can best learn, and teaching important concepts in multiple ways, for many ...

Roland Fryer does not want to be thought of as an exception, even though at age 30 he became the youngest African American to receive tenure at Harvard, as an economics professor, and at age 34 he ...

For decades, affirmative action has been a deeply integral — and deeply debated — aspect of college admissions in the United States. The idea that colleges can (and in some cases, should) consider ...

Today, The Education Recovery Scorecard, a collaboration with researchers at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University (CEPR) and Stanford University’s Educational Opportunity ...

U.S. surgeon general Vivek Murthy placed a spotlight on America’s problem with loneliness when he declared the issue an epidemic in the spring of 2023.

“The educational gag orders and book banning are unreal to me,” says Liz Phipps-Soeiro, Ed.M.'19, director of library services for Boston Public Schools, adding that even in liberal Massachusetts, she ...

Whether you seek to manage a complex organization or team, launch an entrepreneurial venture, or drive an initiative that sparks new possibilities within an existing school, district, or network, the ...

Many educators struggle with unconscious bias in their roles at school, and often in ways that can unknowingly perpetuate racism and negatively affect students. In this episode of the Harvard EdCast, ...