K-12

How to Overcome Pandemic Learning Losses

Post-pandemic K-12 learning gaps remain—but some districts have found ways to close them. 

by Nina Pasquini

Harvard's Tom Kane on Effective School Reforms

Tom Kane deploys data to help improve education.

by Nina Pasquini

A Right Way to Teach Reading?

The science, art, and politics of teaching an essential skill

by Nina Pasquini

Aiming for Excellence

New books by Harvard experts on college preparation, rankings, student experiences, and institutional strategies

by John S. Rosenberg

Boosting Teacher Training

Harvard Graduate School of Education receives a landmark gift in support of its new teaching master’s program.

by John S. Rosenberg

Could COVID-19 Transform U.S. Education?

A conversation on the crisis and its outcomes with the Graduate School of Education’s Paul Reville 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

What rights do children have in homeschooling?

Elizabeth Bartholet highlights risks when parents have 24/7 authoritarian control over their children.

by Erin O’Donnell

The Case for Smaller Classes

We look back to one of the classic experiments in education: an attempt to determine the effects of class size on young students’ learning.

by Frederick Mosteller

Teaching with technology, for a new generation

From the “Teaching Machine” to the promise of twenty-first-century learning technology

by Sophia Nguyen

The Developing Child

With a new interdisciplinary center, Harvard turns its focus to the earliest years of life.

by Elizabeth Gudrais