Skills to Fix Failing Schools
The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) recently announced the creation of a new degree: Doctor of Educational Leadership.
This program is interdisciplinary, with coursework coming from HGSE, the Harvard Business School, and the Kennedy School. The program is three years—the first two spent in course work and the third year spent in residency with a partner program. There are some pieces with great explanations and quotes regarding the program. Here are a few:
I first heard about the new programs in September and decided that I wasn’t going to let the grass grow on this opportunity. From a cold start I began busting the GRE skills and got signed up for a Nov 24 test date.
Man. Nothing will reinforce a conviction in reforming education that having to take another high stakes standardized test. In the end I scored 570 (80 percentile) on the Verbal, 770 (87 percentile) on the Quant and a 5.5 (92 percentile) on the Analytical Writing. The score was a mixed surprise—I had been scoring just shy of 700 on the Verbal in pretests and low 600s on the Quant in pretests. Ha. Brings back my memories of the ACT, which I took 4 times, never scoring higher that a 31 cumulatively, though over the course of the four times taking the test, managed to score a 35 on every section of the test—just never consistently.
I had the thought, though, that I would like to share my two short (400 word) essays that I submitted as part of the application. They are below, with the prompts.
