Spotlight on Harvard in Chile

Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 14:50 in Psychology & Sociology

President Drew Faust is traveling this week to highlight Harvard’s engagement with Latin America. In Chile, she is meeting with government and academic leaders and getting a firsthand look at the tangible benefits of Harvard research. She is visiting an early childhood education program at a public school and participating in a symposium organized by Harvard faculty, government leaders, and the heads of nongovernmental organizations involved in Chile’s earthquake reconstruction efforts. Below, faculty members and others involved in the trip share their impressions about key stops along the way. Helping Chile’s early childhood teachers A teacher and student work together on a writing exercise. Chilean schools typically don't begin to teach reading until the first grade; Un Buen Comienzo gives teachers strategies for introducing the alphabet and building early literacy with 4- and 5-year-olds. Photo by Aldo Benincasa In 2006, Dean Kathleen McCartney of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Professor...

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