Harvard University School of Education Harvard School of Education's Ed.L.D. admissions out of integrity Cambridge Massachusetts

Harvard University's School of Education admissions requirements in pursuit of its doctorate in Educational Leadership is out of integrity with its claims of providing doctoral level leaders to "innovate" the field of education.  Despite it's advertising slogan of "Learn to Change the World" and its referall to "transformational leadership", it nonetheless requires scores on one of two standard tests (GRE or GMA) for admission.  Yet alas, "forward-thinking" educators for some time have acknowledged that standard tests do NOT adequately measure a student's potential.  Indeed, one director of research of a company that produces such mainstream tests admitted himself that "we need to get rid of standardized testing."

Too, not only does the HGSE adamantly maintain this requirement, it actually refuses to discuss the issue from the level of admissions personal to the Dean himself.  Queries thru emails are ignored as are voicemail messages.  And when finally getting to the most senior level (i.e., the Dean), one gets diverted to a special assistant who himself is embarassingly uninformed of the history of innovative education or even present day renown, award-winning innovative educators (e.g., Summerhill, John Taylor Gatto, et al).

The combination of HGSE maintaining an admission policy that does NOT do justice to applicants and the fact that it is unwilling to even have an intelligent, responsible conversation w/re to the issue signals that this school of ed is out of integrity with its promotion of itself.  Certainly doesn't seem like a environment for true transformational leadership.