Ryan Nagelhout

1 week ago | gse.harvard.edu | Ryan Nagelhout

Senior Lecturer Kathryn Boudett is the 2025 recipient of the Morningstar Family Teaching Award, presented annually to a Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty member who makes an outstanding impact on their students and the Harvard community. Boudett was presented the award — which honors excellence in teaching and advising along with evidence of a caring, respectful, and enthusiastic commitment to students — at HGSE’s Convocation exercises on Wednesday, May 28.

3 weeks ago | gse.harvard.edu | Ryan Nagelhout

The final Askwith Education Forum of the spring 2025 semester marked the beginning of the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s latest professional development program. “Brave Leadership and the Future of American Education” took center stage at Askwith Hall on Wednesday night, as Lecturer Timothy Patrick McCarthy moderated a panel featuring leaders discussing the “unprecedented” challenges the American education system currently faces.

3 weeks ago | gse.harvard.edu | Ryan Nagelhout

The Harvard Graduate School of Education will honor two alumni — Patrick Tutwiler, Ed.M.’00, and Yang Jiang, Ed.M.’11 — for their outstanding contributions to the field of education. Tutwiler, currently Massachusetts secretary of education, will receive the HGSE Alumni Council Award for Excellence in Education, awarded annually to an alum who demonstrates significant, long-term service in the field of education while representing the mission and values of the Ed School.

1 month ago | gse.harvard.edu | Ryan Nagelhout

Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean Nonie Lesaux has announced the promotion of Eric Taylor, a scholar whose work focuses on using personnel economics to inform educational policy and the teacher workforce. Taylor has been named professor of education, effective July 1. “I am enormously grateful to my colleagues at HGSE, Harvard, and beyond,” says Taylor. “It is reassuring to have their vote of trust in the form of this promotion.

1 month ago | gse.harvard.edu | Ryan Nagelhout

Key insights and ideas about pandemic recovery in the American education system were the focus of the latest Askwith Education Forum on Wednesday evening. Led by Professor Thomas Kane, faculty director of the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University (CEPR), the forum offered a glimpse at the ongoing challenges of COVID-19 pandemic learning loss and highlighted the successes some school districts have had in overcoming the disruption and crisis that followed.