Commentary and analysis

Los Angeles Times | By Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine. Jal Mehta PhD 2006 is an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Sarah Fine r uns a teacher preparation program at the High Tech High Graduate School of Education in San Diego. They...

The New York Times | By Jal Mehta PhD 2006 and Sarah Fine. Debate, drama and other extracurriculars provide the excitement many classrooms lack. And they can help overhaul the system, Mehta and Fine argue. The authors spent six years traveling the country...

Harvard Kennedy School | New faculty member Will Dobbie PhD 2013 talks about changing the conversation about poverty through a multidisciplinary approach.

The New York Times Magazine By Anthony Abraham Jack PhD 2016. Schools must learn that when you come from poverty, you need more than financial aid to succeed. Anthony Abraham Jack is an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and...

TedxCambridge | Anthony Abraham Jack, PhD '16, delivered a TEDxCambridge talk at the Boston Opera House [video available soon]. Jack is a Junior Fellow with the Harvard Society of Fellows and Assistant Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education. He...

JAMA Pediatrics | By Jessica Wolpaw Reyes PhD '02, Professor of Economics, Amherst College. How, given scarce resources, should society best address the threats that lead poses?

The New York Times | By Anthony Abraham Jack, PhD '16. It is one thing to extend coveted invitations to poor students in recruiting them, writes Jack. it's another to really prepare for their arrival. Jack is a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of...

The New York Times | By James Feigenbaum (PhD '16), Alexander Hertel-Fernandez (PhD '16), and Vanessa Williamson (PhD '15). James Feigenbaum, Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston University; Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Asssistant Professor of Public...

Boston Review | By Thad Williamson (PhD '04). Today it is hard not to fear that the persistence of racial injustice and U.S. poverty is anything but a permanent feature of our democracy, writes Williamson, in his review essay of Tommie Shelby's Dark...

The New York Times | By Patrick Sharkey (PhD '07). Patrick Sharkey, a professor of sociology at New York University, is the author of the new book Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence.