Stanford Graduate School of Education
GSE tells the story of Paul Hanna and Hanna House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
Enterprising education professor bequeathed to Stanford a Frank Lloyd Wright showplace and a growing role in U.S. and global affairs
Enterprising education professor bequeathed to Stanford a Frank Lloyd Wright showplace and a growing role in U.S. and global affairs Stanford University Archives Nestled into a hill of faculty housing on Stanford’s Frenchman’s Lane, Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1937 Hanna House is a hexagonal hive of redwood and glass. It is internationally known — and on the National Register…
Read More Education Professor John Willinsky rocks free sharing in music and scholarship
Prof. John Willinsky rocks free sharing in music and scholarship When John Willinsky, the Khosla Family Professor of Education, came to Stanford a decade ago from Vancouver, Canada, he brought his leadership of the Public Knowledge Project, which promotes and studies the sharing of research and scholarship as a public good. He also brought his electric guitar. Today, Willinsky’s…
Read More Good books, like teachers, acknowledge children’s lives, says author Jacqueline Woodson
In Stanford visit, acclaimed writer of young-adult fiction advocates reading “slowly” in order to understand.
In her National Book Award-winning verse autobiography, Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson writes that she was a slow reader, an exasperating student who sometimes missed the point of a teacher’s lesson. Yet by age 7, Woodson knew that she wanted to be a writer. Those two facts seem contradictory but in fact anchor her writing…
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