Harvard Graduate School of Education - Famous People

Famous People

See also: Harvard University people

Current faculty members include:

• Kathleen McCartney, Dean, Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Early Childhood Education
• Howard Gardner, John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education
• Thomas Kane, Professor of Education
• Robert Kegan William and Miriam Meehan Professor in Adult Learning and Professional Development
• 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
• Richard Murnane, Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society

Past faculty members include:

• Lawrence Kohlberg
• Carol Gilligan
• Gerald S. Lesser (1926-2010), psychologist who played a major role in developing the educational programming included in Sesame Street.
• Israel Scheffler
• Patricia Graham, Professor of Education
• Charles V. Willie, Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Emeritus

Alumni (master's and doctoral) include :

• Neal Baer, executive producer, Law and Order: SVU; 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
• Joanne V. Creighton, 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
• Jason Kamras, 2005 National Teacher of the Year
• Timothy Lannon, President of Creighton University
• James McGreevey, former New Jersey state governor
• Martha Minow, dean, Harvard Law School
• Jodi Picoult, American Author
• Theodore Sizer, former dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education; former headmaster, Phillips Andover Academy
• Anne Sweeney, president, Disney-ABC Television Group
• Michael Johnston, Colorado state senator, co-founder of New Leaders for New Schools