Harvard Graduate School of Education

Harvard Graduate School of Education
Established	1920
Type	Private
Endowment	US$540 million
Dean	Kathleen McCartney
Students	~980
Location	Cambridge, Massachusetts,
Campus	Urban
Website	www.gse.harvard.edu

The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) is a graduate school at Harvard University, and is one of the top schools of education in the United States.^{[citation needed]}

It offers six doctoral concentrations and thirteen masters programs. These include Arts in Education, Education Policy and Management, Higher Education, International Education Policy, the Specialized Program, Technology Innovation and Education, Teacher Education, Mind, Brain and Education, Risk and Prevention, School Leadership, Human Development and Psychology, Language and Literacy, and Learning and Teaching.

Led by Dean Kathleen McCartney, the mission of HGSE is to prepare leaders in education and to generate knowledge to improve student opportunity, achievement, and success. It seeks to accomplish this mission by operating at the nexus of practice, policy, and research.

Famous people

See also: Harvard University people

Current faculty members include:

• Kathleen McCartney, Dean, Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Early Childhood Education
• Richard Elmore, Gregory R. Anrig Professor of Educational Leadership Director, Consortium for Policy Research in Education
• Howard Gardner, John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education
• Paul Harris, Professor of Education
• Thomas Kane, Professor of Education
• Dan Koretz, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education
• Susan Moore Johnson Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr. Professor of Teaching and Learning
• Robert Kegan William and Miriam Meehan Professor in Adult Learning and Professional Development
• Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education
• Jerome Murphy, Harold Howe II Professor of Education
• David Perkins, Professor of Education
• Robert Peterkin, Francis Keppel Professor of Educational Policy and Administration
• Fernando Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of Education
• Julie Reuben, Professor of Education
• Jack Shonkoff, B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development
• Judith Singer, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education
• Catherine Snow, Patricia Albjerg Graham Professor of Education
• John B. Willett, Charles William Eliot Professor of Education
• Richard Murnane, Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society
• Hiro Yoshikawa, Professor of Education

External links

• Official Web Site

Coordinates: 42°22′32″N 71°07′18″W / 42.37542°N 71.12177°W / 42.37542; -71.12177