Taking stock of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education
Margot Stern Strom co-developed a curriculum on the Holocaust for elementary students that is now used in schools in more than 200 countries. Geoffrey Canada ran the Harlem Children’s Zone to tackle poverty and the achievement gap. Ruth Wong Hie-King served as director of the National Institute of Education in her native Singapore, helping transform the teaching profession in that country. The stories of Strom, C.A.S. ’77, Canada, Ed.M.’75, and Wong, Ed.D. ’62, all graduates of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), were highlighted Thursday afternoon by Bridget Terry Long, dean of the Ed School, as examples of the kind of impact alumni have had around the world. Long, the Saris Professor of Education and Economics, spoke before a packed room at Askwith Hall at the panel “Why Education Matters,” which kicked off the festivities to mark the School’s Centennial. “These are stories of hope,” said Long in her opening remarks. “They...