Word: hgse
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...public school teachers from Cambridge and Boston received Conant Fellowships from the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) at a reception in Longfellow Hall on Thursday...
...James Bryant Conant, President of Harvard from 1933 to 1953, The Conant Fellowship program provides three teachers from the Boston and Cambridge public school districts with a $7000 stipend to study for one year. Tuition at the school costs approximately $11,000 each year, said Dudley F. Blodgett, HGSE's Director of External Relations...
Blodget said that HGSE hopes to make the fellowship available to more teachers in the future and is planning to seek support from alumni and local corporations who have an interest in the public school systems. "Six fellowships is great, but we want to have the capabilities of offering more," he said...
...Policy: The final area of our concentration upon the schools is policy traditionally one of the strongest fields at HGSE. Within the larger realm of social policy, increasing numbers of our colleagues have turned that attention to issues related to schools. During this year Professor Sara Lawrence Lightfoot has completed her study of "portraiture," six ethnographic studies of high schools. Professor David K. Cohen is completing a study of fifteen high schools as part of former dean Theodore Sizer's study of secondary education. Professor Anthony Bryk has worked with a group of students investigating the influence and consequences...
...late spring, 1983 we were approached by representatives of Massachusetts state government, who wished to consult with us regarding possible state initiatives to improve education. We hope that we may be able to work with them in ways that they will find useful. We are confident that we at HGSE do not have the requisite skills. Political and otherwise, to undertake fundamental legislative action but we hope that with a small group of graduate students and faculty we may be able to provide some useful analyze supplements for the use of the state legislative and executive personnel...