University Holiday: Veterans Day
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University is closed.
Type of Event: Holiday. Registration Required: No.
Tuesday, November 11, 2025.
Gutman Library Virtual Book Talk - Critical AI in K-12 Classrooms
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Artificial intelligence is rapidly integrating into today’s classrooms, but unlike other new technologies, AI has the potential to harm, making it difficult to take advantage of its benefits. In Critical AI in K–12 Classrooms, Stephanie Smith Budhai and Marie K. Heath draw attention to the biases embedded within AI algorithms, such as those powering OpenAI’s ChatGPT and DALL-E, to guide students and teachers in developing strategies to best incorporate AI—or not—into equitable learning.
AI’s reliance on existing data and knowledge systems means Black, queer, those with disabilities, and other marginalized students are at greater risk of being harmed by built-in limitations and bias. Budhai and Heath show how to circumvent if not actively resist such harms as machine learning, NLPs, LLMS, and GenAI enter the classroom, with practical examples rooted in culturally sustaining, abolitionist, and fugitive pedagogies across disciplines. Their practical guide creatively answers the concerns of…
Type of Event: Presentation. Question & Answer Session. Discussion. Topic: Early Childhood and PreK. Teaching. Learning. Schools. Policy. Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Who can attend? Alumni. Faculty. General Public. Harvard Community. Staff. Students. Building/Room: Other. Contact Name: Myanne Krivoshey. Registration Required: No. RSVP Required: No. Featured Event: Gutman Library Book Talk.
Monday, November 17, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Virtual (on Zoom).
For more info visit calendar.gse.harvard.edu. Why Have Girls' Test Scores Declined Relative to Boys' in Recent Years?
Join CEPR on November 18 for an engaging conversation with Sean Reardon, Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education and professor (by courtesy) of sociology at Stanford University.
Girls’ test scores, particularly in math, fell more than boys’ scores during the pandemic, a pattern evident in NAEP data, in state assessment data, and in international assessments. We investigate the patterns of these declines using 15 years’ of test score data from 7000 U.S. school districts. We find that changes in math and reading gender gaps during the pandemic varied substantially across school districts. Girls’ scores declined much more than boys’ scores in communities with fewer economic, social, and educational resources and in communities where the impact of the pandemic was most severe – communities where schools were closed longer, where social interactions were more limited, and where COVID death rates were high. In more advantaged communities and those where the pandemic had less impact, gender gaps were large…
Type of Event: Lecture. Who can attend? General Public. Building/Room: Eliot Lyman. Contact Name: cepr.harvard.edu/pier-seminar. Registration Required: No.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Longfellow Hall
13 Appian Way
Cambridge, MA.
For more info visit prod-cepr.drupalsites.harvard.edu. University Holiday: Thanksgiving Recess
Holiday Calendar
University is closed.
Type of Event: Holiday. Registration Required: No.
Thursday, November 27, 2025 – Friday, November 28, 2025.
PIER Public Seminar: Activating Parental Managerial Capital in Education
Join us on December 2nd at 4:00 in Eliot Lyman in Longfellow Hall to hear Mahounan Yedomiffi discuss his research on Activating Parental Managerial Capital in Education. Yedomiffi is a Provost Faculty Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Dartmouth. His work investigates how parental managerial capital (the capacity to structure time, monitor effort and guide behavior) affects student outcomes through a randomized field experiment in Benin.
If you cannot join us in person, the event will also be livestreamed at:
https://cepr.harvard.edu/pier-seminar.
Type of Event: Discussion. Lecture. Presentation. Topic: Global and Comparative Education. Equity and Access. Learning. Who can attend? Alumni. Faculty. General Public. Harvard Community. Staff. Students. Building/Room: Eliot Lyman. Contact Name: Olivia O'Neill. Contact Email: olivia_oneill@gse.harvard.edu. Contact Phone: 3016551441. Registration Required: No. RSVP Required: No.
Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
Eliot Lyman Room, Longfellow Hall
13 Appian Way, HGSE & Livestream.
University Holiday: Christmas Eve Half Day
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University is closed for half day.
Type of Event: Holiday. Registration Required: No.
Wednesday, December 24, 2025.
University Holiday: Winter Recess
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Type of Event: Holiday. Registration Required: No.
Thursday, December 25, 2025 – Wednesday, December 31, 2025.
University Holiday: New Year's Day
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Type of Event: Holiday. Registration Required: No.
Thursday, January 1, 2026.
University Holiday: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday
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Type of Event: Holiday. Registration Required: No.
Monday, January 19, 2026.