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How are technological innovation, globalization, and other factors changing how we educate and train people? Can closing opportunity gaps lead to academic excellence and a stronger labor force?
A recent stuffy nose last week prompted Kathy Pham, an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center, to pilot an online session for her class—even before Harvard issued its update on COVID-19. Pham reflects on how to engage students in a virtual environment and discusses concerns about ensuring accessibility and maintaining best practices.
El Paso Leadership Academy is a tuition-free public charter school for sixth-to-eighth graders in El Paso, Texas, that primarily serves low-income minority students. The school teaches leadership through a set of core values: collaboration, responsibility, smarts, humility, and hunger.
Identifies political and economic influences on education policy, assesses relevant policy research, and discusses the practical challenges faced by today’s education innovators. Topics include teacher quality, collective bargaining, school size, scho
This course examines a variety of education policy issues in the United States and abroad, with an emphasis on rigorous econometric evaluation of such policies.
William Julius Wilson reflects on the connection between race and employment. To confront poverty and inequality in the inner city, he says, we must recognize the complex, interrelated problems facing poor black families.