Community, hope, and a sense of place were the focus of the Transforming Place Through Neighborhood Leadership Summer Institute, an annual gathering put on by the Harvard Graduate School of ...

Many teachers worry about bringing controversy into the classroom because it could spark conflict between students or result in reproaches from administrators or parents, but addressing and thinking ...

The explosion of artificial intelligence comes with many benefits and challenges for children interacting with artificial intelligence, especially in educational and social contexts. “The big question ...

These findings aren't necessarily going to be a surprise to anyone who's weathered remote learning with a child at home. So in some sense, this is meant to be confirmation of what many of us have ...

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. Murthy explained, in a letter that introduced an ...

The pioneer of critical race theory in education discusses the current politicization and tension around teaching about race in the classroom.

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 ...

As millions of students prepare for summer vacation, many parents may worry about endless time spent on the screen. According to Michael Rich, pediatrician and director of the Digital Wellness Lab at ...

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, ...

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. But he was a seventh ...

Sam Noel, a senior at Melrose High School in Massachusetts, didn’t sleep well the night before his SAT last spring. “I was nervous,” he says, not just about taking the college entrance exam but also ...

Writer and scholar Eve L. Ewing, Ed.M.’13, Ed.D.’16, wants people to talk, not just about how American schools started, but also how that can inform the future of schools, especially for Black and ...