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ESSA Accountability Design Competition: The Contenders

ESSA Accountability Design Competition: The Contenders

January 28, 2016

Thomas B. Fordham Institute | Ronald F. Ferguson of the Harvard Kennedy School is one of ten finalists in the Fordham Institute's ESSA Accountability Design Competition. Under the newly enacted Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states now face the challenge of creating school accountability systems that can vastly improve upon the model required by No Child Left Behind. To help spur creative thinking about how they might do so, and to inform the Department of Education as it develops its ESSA regulations, the Fordham Institute is sponsoring this competition. The ten finalists will pitch their work on the Fordham stage to a live audience and a panel of judges on February 2.

Takeover to Turnaround: What States and Schools Can Learn from the Massachusetts Takeover of Lawrence Public Schools

Takeover to Turnaround: What States and Schools Can Learn from the Massachusetts Takeover of Lawrence Public Schools

January 28, 2016

HGSE Usable Knowledge | Spotlights new research by Inequality Fellow Beth Shueler (Ed.D. candidate), Joshua Goodman (Associate Professor, Harvard Kennedy School), and David Deming (Ph.D. '10 and Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education), which found achievement gains from state takeover and district-level turnaround of Lawrence public schools  in a new working paper that may serve as a blueprint for other districts and states.

New Book by Faculty Associate Serhii Plokhi

January 28, 2016

Serhii Plokhii, Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History and director of the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University recently published The Gates of Europe A History of Ukraine. The book is an authoritative history of this vital country and provides a unique insight into the origins of the most dangerous international crisis since the end of the Cold War. 

Do You Need A Faculty Sponsor?

January 28, 2016

If you are conducting human subjects research and your position at Harvard is one of the following, FAS policy requires you to have a PI-eligible faculty member sponsor your project*:

  • Undergraduate student
  • Graduate student
  • Post-Doc
  • Staff member
  • Visiting Scholar
  • Lecturer**

*PI eligibility varies slightly from school to school; if you are unsure, check with your department / administrative unit head. Note, however, that the list above applies to all Harvard schools and departments.

**Lecturers at the Harvard...

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