Harvard conference discusses the machinery to drive ed reform
Paul Reville knows that education reform must reach beyond the classroom to achieve its goals. For the Education Redesign Lab’s inaugural By All Means symposium, to be held at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE) Monday through Wednesday, the former Massachusetts Secretary of Education is bringing together mayors and school superintendents from six communities to discuss how to leverage government to battle key issues, such as income disparity, that can hold back students. In advance of the conference, Reville, the Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration at GSE, discussed the educational needs involved. Q&A Paul Reville GAZETTE: How did this initiative begin? reville: I founded the Education Redesign Lab in 2014, shortly after I’d returned from a stint in state government. I had been really involved at that time, for about 25 or 30 years, in crafting systemic education reform for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. And while I was very proud...