Ryan Nagelhout

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Freelance Writer and Editor at Freelance

Writer, editor and luxury sandwich spread. Still writing (and talking) a lot about Buffalo sports. [email protected]

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Articles

Miratrix Named Professor of Education

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

Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean Nonie Lesaux has announced the promotion of Luke Miratrix, a scholar whose work is characterized by asking fundamental questions in statistical inference and showing how they matter in applied educational research. Miratrix has been named professor of education, effective July 1. Miratrix joined HGSE in 2015 as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor in 2020.
Helping Others Find Their Path

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

Salman Khan, Ph.D.’25, doesn’t have regrets about his college experience; there are just things about actually applying to colleges he wishes he knew then — things he’s spent the last 15 years working to teach others.
HGSE Commencement Celebrates the Class of 2025

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

Wednesday’s Convocation ceremony featured outstanding members of the Ed School community and their efforts in and outside of the classroom throughout the year. Senior Lecturer Kathryn Parker Boudett was named the 2025 Morningstar Family Teaching Award winner. Satyam Mishra was awarded the Phyllis Strimling Award, and class marshals, the school’s Equity and Inclusion Fellows, and the Intellectual Contribution Award winners from each master’s program were honored as well.
Boudett Honored With 2025 Morningstar Family Teaching Award

1 month 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.
Brave Leadership in Trying Times

1 month 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.
Tutwiler, Jiang to Receive Alumni Council Awards

1 month 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.
Taylor Named Professor of Education

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.
Askwith Education Forum Centers Pandemic Recovery Success and the Road Ahead

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.
Suárez-Orozco Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

2 months ago | gse.harvard.edu | Ryan Nagelhout

Carola Suárez-Orozco, professor in residence and director of the Immigration Initiative at Harvard, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). The AAAS — which works across disciplines to advance the common good — has honored members whose work demonstrates excellence and leadership since 1781. “I am deeply grateful and humbled to be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,” said Suárez-Orozco.
Askwith Education Forum Explores How to Bridge Differences with Universal Dignity

2 months ago | gse.harvard.edu | Ryan Nagelhout |Stephanie Jones

U.S. Special Olympics chair and co-founder of UNITE Tim Shriver shared a vision for treating others with dignity and grace at the latest Askwith Education Forum on Tuesday evening. Taking the stage amid a shifting political and educational landscape, the evening’s program highlighted ways violent and divisive rhetoric must be combatted and what educators can do to teach choosing dignity over contempt.