The three goals of the annual conference are to promote dialogue across Harvard’s campuses about education innovation, to provide examples of experimental approaches and research studies that generalize across academic fields, and to expand the network of Harvard constituents who are improving educational practice.
Former U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey and Stephen M. Kosslyn were featured in the morning panel to discuss their involvement with San Francisco’s Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate Institute, which aims to replace traditional classroom education with a cognitive learning approach geared to critical thinking and reasoning.
Read the full story in the Gazette: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/09/kerrey-lets-re-emphasize-critical-thinking/