Harvard Club of Wisconsin

The Harvard Club of the Great Lakes welcomes 

Katherine K. Merseth

Senior Lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education and Instructor at Harvard College

Tuesday, May 25, 2021
1:00 PM ET (12:00 Central)

The Harvard Clubs of the Great Lakes are excited to welcome Senior Lecturer Katherine Merseth for a presentation about her successful undergraduate course, The Dilemma of Equity and Excellence in K12 American Education.

Merseth’s work has concentrated on charter schools, teacher education, mathematics education, and the case-method of instruction. Her books include Windows on Teaching Mathematics: Cases of Secondary Mathematics Classrooms, Cases in Educational Administration, and Inside Urban Charter Schools. At Harvard, she founded the Harvard Children’s Initiative, a university-wide program focusing on the needs of children as well as the School Leadership and the Teacher Education Programs at the School of Education. She also designed the new Harvard Teacher Fellows Program, offering Harvard College Seniors an innovative path to teach underserved students. Merseth’s course, Dilemmas of Excellence and Equity in K-12 American Schools, was ranked as one of the most popular courses in the College with over 400 students wishing to enroll in the course each term. In 2017 she was named as one of 15 outstanding Professors across Harvard University, and in the spring of 2018, she was awarded the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for teaching.

As many students and teachers return to school, issues in equity and excellence in education are at the forefront of public discourse, and we look forward to hearing Katherine Merseth’s expertise and sharing our questions. 

More information about Katherine Merseth can be found here:

https://www.gse.harvard.edu/faculty/katherine-merseth

We look forward to seeing you!