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HPSC also received a $720,300 gift from the Spencer Foundation of Chicago for program evaluation. When asked why Harvard should care enough to donate valuable resources to the project, HPSC Director Katherine K. Merseth replied, "children represent 20 percent of our population and 100 percent of our future." We couldn't agree more, and we are very happy about the development of the HPSC. Right now, HPSC receives money from The Pew Charitable Trusts and has the support of the University. The HPSC is a welcome addition to the activities of Harvard University because it appears...
...Harvard Project on Schooling and Children, directed by Katherine K. Merseth, focuses on five areas--children's studies, innovative schools, the ecology of schooling, evaluation of school reform and children's health...
Executive Director of the Harvard Project onSchooling and Children Katherine K. Merseth, Ed'81, was consulted by the grade school's founders.Although Merseth was not a member of the foundingcoalition, she represented the Project in thecharter schools program by offering consulting oncurricular issues...
...Harvard program which is designed as a needed for other in students certified to teach math or science in over 30 states, according to Merseth, who added that admissions personnel reported over 600 inquiries for the program within its first 18 months...
...program has attracted the attention of Congressman Rod Chandler (R-Wash.), a member of the Education and Labor Committee Chandler, who visited the Ed School last week, had proposed legislation in Congress to help fund the nearly 40 institutions that are interested in beginning programs modeled after Harvard's, Merseth said...