May 17, 2001

HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Unchartered Time for the American Child
The percentage of mothers working outside the home has almost doubled in the United States since 1975. As a consequence, more American families than ever depend on nonmaternal care for their infants, children, and teens during working hours. Yet, strikingly few federal policies address the need for high-quality child care.

The Long Road to College Access
Education professor Bridget Terry Long, poised with an economist's training, is zeroing in on an education question that's always intrigued her: What factors determine who goes to college and who does not?

Unlocking the Internet's Library
Kathleen Guinee, a second-year doctoral student at HGSE, is working to develop a computer-based tool that will make searching the Web easier for all students.

Building Computerized Cathedrals for Learning
Art historian, religious scholar, and computer virtuoso, James Moore has always been interested in the lessons that things-inanimate objects, that is-can teach. Now in the fourth year of his doctoral studies at HGSE, he has focused on a quintessentially modern medium: the Internet.

Breaking the Glass Ceiling...Online
"If we, as leaders in thinking about women's place in the world, don't model how new technologies can be used to advance women, who is going to?" asks Pam Whitehouse, an HGSE doctoral student and adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.

Teaching for Empathy
Krina Patel built a course around a teaching model called Teaching for Understanding, developed by several HGSE professors, which emphasizes students' ability to think critically and apply new knowledge.

Math As a Civil Rights Issue
Robert Moses spoke recently to an audience of young people and adults at the Ask-with Education Forum about his recent book, Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights, about the connections between the past and the future, and about what gives him hope as an education activist.

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