The Center for Education Policy Research is a unique partnership among districts, states, foundations, and university-based researchers designed to leverage the overwhelming amount of data to address education policy questions and improve outcomes for all students….
Center on the Developing Child
The mission of the Center on the Developing Child is to drive science-based innovation that achieves breakthrough outcomes for children facing adversity. We believe that advances in science provide a powerful source of new ideas focused on the early years of life. Founded in 2006, the Center catalyzes local, national, and international innovation in policy…
Civic and Moral Education Initiative
The Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Civic and Moral Education Initiative (CMEI) fosters a thriving intellectual community around the themes of civic and moral education….
Immigration Initiative at Harvard
The Immigration Initiative at Harvard (IIH) advances interdisciplinary scholarship, original research, and intellectual exchange on issues related to the nature, effects, and implications of immigration on children, youth, families, and communities, with a special focus on the intersection of immigration with education. The IIH serves as a place of convening for scholars, students, policymakers, community…
Just City Lab
The Just City Lab investigates the definition of urban justice and the just city and examines how design and planning contribute to conditions of justice and injustice in cities, neighborhoods and the public realm. Professor Toni L. Griffin and her team of research assistants have produced The Just City Index, Just City Indicators for the…
Loeb Fellowship
Loeb Fellows are accomplished practitioners, influential in shaping the built and natural environment, whose work is advancing positive social outcomes in the US and around the world. In the middle of promising careers they step away from their hectic professional lives for one academic year. Fellows audit classes at the GSD and throughout the vast…
New Civics Early Career Scholars Program
Since 2012 The New Civics Early Career Scholars Program has trained doctoral students for research in civic engagement and civic education. Generously funded by the Spencer Foundation, it equips researchers to contribute to developing ‘New Civics’, a broader, more realistic view of civic engagement. What motivates and empowers such action – and also what inhibits…
Project Zero
Project Zero is an intellectual wellspring, nourishing inquiry into the complexity of human potentials – intelligence, understanding, thinking, creativity, cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural thinking, ethics – and exploring sustainable ways to support them across multiple and diverse contexts. Anchored in the arts and humanities, and with a commitment to melding theory and practice, we continue to…
Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative
The Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative promotes the knowledge, professional learning, and collective action necessary to cultivate optimal early learning environments and experiences….
The Education Redesign Lab
Decades of education reform in the U.S. have focused on changing what happens within the walls of our schools to level the playing field and offer all young people the preparation they need to thrive as adults. Yet, our schools have been unable to deliver on the promise of American public education—excellence and equity for…