The Stanford Graduate School of Education (also known as Stanford GSE, or GSE) is one of the seven schools of

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, and is one of the top education schools in the

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. It was founded in 1891 and offers master's and doctoral programs in more than 25 areas of specialization, along with joint degrees with other programs at

including

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, and public policy.

History

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The Graduate School of Education was founded in 1891 as the Department of the History and Art of Education, one of the original twenty-one departments at Stanford University. It awarded its first Ph.D. in 1916, and in 1917 was renamed the Stanford University School of Education (SUSE). The Graduate School of Education building and Cubberley Library were built in 1938, and the Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP) was established in 1959. In 2001, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation donated $5 million to establish the School Redesign Network. The GSE established a

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, the East Palo Alto Academy, which has been managed by its New Schools initiative since then. In 2008, the faculty decided unanimously to make scholarly articles available as

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, the first such move by a school of education. In 2009, The GSE established an education minor program for Stanford undergraduates. The program prepares students for careers in teaching, crafting educational policy, and managing schools. In 2013, the school name was changed to the Stanford Graduate School of Education to better reflect its advanced research and its graduate-level preparation of educators, scholars, policy makers and entrepreneurs.

Academics

Stanford GSE offers ten M.A. programs and four Ph.D. programs. The school's degree programs are academic rather than professional and grant M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. It also has undergraduate honors and minors programs. As a graduate school of education, the undergraduate programs are not degree programs but instead offer education-related training for students majoring in other areas as well as co-terminal master's degrees. The largest program is the Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP), which is the only program at the university which offers a

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for K-12 teachers. The school also offers numerous professional development programs and resources for practicing elementary and secondary school teachers. These include the Center for the Support of Excellence in Teaching, the National Board Resource Center, the Problem-Solving Cycle, and Stanford English Learner Education Services.

Rankings

Since '' U.S. News & World Report'' began ranking schools of education, Stanford has ranked among the top five overall in the United States and has received the top peer assessment score of any school each year.

Notable people

Deans

* 1891–1898 Earl Barnes * 1898–1933

Ellwood Patterson Cubberley Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (June 6, 1868 – September 14, 1941) was an American educator and a pioneer in the field of educational administration. He spent most of his career as a professor and later dean in the Stanford Graduate School of Educat ...

* 1933–1945 Grayson N. Kefauver * 1945–1954 A. John Bartky * 1954–1966 I. James Quillen * 1966–1972 H. Thomas James * 1972–1980 Arthur Coladarci * 1980–1986 Myron Atkin * 1986–1993 Marshall S. Smith * 1995–2000

Richard Shavelson Richard J. Shavelson is an educational psychology, educational psychologist who has published over 100 research articles and books in the fields of educational assessment, psychology, and science education. He is an emeritus professor in the Stanfor ...

* 2000–2011

Deborah Stipek Deborah Stipek is the Judy Koch Professor of Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) and a professor by courtesy of psychology. She also serves as the Peter E. Haas Faculty Director of the Haas Center for Public Service at St ...

* 2011–2014

Claude Steele Claude Mason Steele (born January 1, 1946) is a social psychologist and emeritus professor at Stanford University, where he is the I. James Quillen Endowed Dean, Emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, and Lucie Stern Professor i ...

* 2014–2015

* 2015–present Daniel Schwartz

Professors

* Ralph Richard Banks, Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law at Stanford Law School * Stephen R. Barley, Richard W. Weiland Professor of Engineering *

William Damon William Damon (born 1944 in Brockton, Massachusetts) is a psychologist who is a professor at Stanford University and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is one of the world's leading scholars of human development. Dam ...

, professor of education and Senior Fellow at

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Linda Darling-Hammond Linda Darling-Hammond (December 21, 1951) is an American academic who is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. She was also the President and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute. Sh ...

, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education *

Thomas Ehrlich Thomas Ehrlich (born March 4, 1934) is a consulting professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. He has been married to Ellen R. Ehrlich since 1957. They have three children David, Elizabeth, and Paul, and nine grandchildren. They live ...

, former president of

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, Lee Jacks Professor of Education, Emeritus, recipient of the

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, Margaret Jacks Professor of Education, Emeritus *

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, Jack Steele Parker Professor, Emeritus *

Clifford Nass Clifford Ivar Nass (April 3, 1958 – November 2, 2013) was a professor of communication at Stanford University, co-creator of ''The Media Equation'' theory, and a renowned authority on human-computer interaction (HCI). He was also known for his ...

, Thomas M. Storke Professor of Communications *

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, Lee L. Jacks Professor of Child Education, Emeritus * Roy Pea, David Jacks Professor of Education and the Learning Sciences * John R. Rickford, J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities * Lee Shulman, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, Emeritus *

Lewis Terman Lewis Madison Terman (January 15, 1877 – December 21, 1956) was an American psychologist and author. He was noted as a pioneer in educational psychology in the early 20th century at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. He is best known ...

, creator of the

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John Willinsky John Willinsky (born 1950) is a Canadian educator, activist, and author. Willinsky is currently on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Education where he is the Khosla Family Professor. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada a ...

, Khosla Family Professor of Education

Alumni

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References

External links

Official website
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