Harvard Graduate School of Education

Academics

Rankings

Notable people

Current faculty members

• Catherine E. Snow, Patricia Albjerg Graham Professor of Education
• Howard Gardner, John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education
• Thomas Kane, professor of education
• Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education
• Jerome Murphy, Harold Howe II Professor of Education
• Fernando Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of Education
• Julie Reuben, professor of education
• John B. Willett, Charles William Eliot Professor of Education
• Felipe Barrera-Osorio, associate professor of education and economics
• Richard Murnane, Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society
• Richard Weissbourd, senior lecturer of education

  Past faculty members

• Carol Gilligan
• Patricia Graham, professor of education
• Robert Kegan William and Miriam Meehan Professor in Adult Learning and Professional Development
• Lawrence Kohlberg
• Kathleen McCartney, former dean; Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Early Childhood Education; current president of Smith College
• Gerald S. Lesser, psychologist who played a major role in developing the educational programming included in Sesame Street.
• James E. Ryan, former dean; Charles William Eliot Professor of Education; current president of the University of Virginia
• Israel Scheffler
• Charles V. Willie, Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Emeritus

  Alumni

• Neal Baer, executive producer, ; former executive producer and writer, ER
• Nínive Clements Calegari, CEO of 826 National and founding executive director of 826 Valencia
• Geoffrey Canada, founder, Harlem Children's Zone
• Clint Smith, American writer and educator
• Andrew McCollum, co-founder of Facebook; angel investor
• Deborah Bial, founder and president of the Posse Foundation
• Frank H. Wu, president of Queens College, City University of New York
• Joseph Lekuton, Kenyan politician
• Logan Smalley, founder and director of TED-Ed
• Joanne V. Creighton, former president of Mount Holyoke College
• Elizabeth Dole, former United States Senator from North Carolina and wife of Bob Dole
• Carl Gershman, president of the National Endowment for Democracy
• Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator; first woman to receive an Ed.D. from HGSE
• Jason Kamras, 2005 National Teacher of the Year and superintendent of Richmond Public Schools
• Timothy Lannon, president of Creighton University
• James McGreevey, former New Jersey state governor
• Martha Minow, dean, Harvard Law School
• Thomas Payzant, superintendent of Boston Public Schools, San Diego Unified School District, Oklahoma City Public Schools; associate professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
• Jodi Picoult, American author
• Theodore R. Sizer, dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education ; headmaster, Phillips Andover Academy ; founder of the Coalition of Essential Schools, Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, and Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School; author of numerous books on public education reform
• Anne Sweeney, president, Disney-ABC Television Group
• Michael Johnston, Colorado state senator, co-founder of New Leaders for New Schools
• Robyn Ochs, bisexual and LGBT rights activist, speaker
• Joan Wexler, dean and president of Brooklyn Law School
• Peggy R. Williams, former president of Ithaca College
• Guadalupe Guerrero, superintendent of Portland Public Schools
• Sandra Sucher, business executive; professor, Harvard Business School
• Denise Juneau, superintendent of Seattle Public Schools; former Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction