Posted on August 10, 2026
Explore the education, certifications, and hands-on experience needed to become an early childhood educator, from degree options to classroom-ready preparation.
Posted on July 29, 2026
The science of learning draws on cognitive and neuroscience research to improve teaching and leadership. Learn what it studies and why it matters.
Posted on June 18, 2026
A parent, educator, advocate, and scholar, Doctor Doreen Mazzye has taken the helm of Gordon’s new Ed.D. program.
Posted on March 18, 2026
Julia Brink D'Onofrio shares on how parents and teachers can prevent reading failure in America.
Posted on October 1, 2025
The Herschend School of Education has announced the institution’s first doctoral program—a Doctor of Education in the Science of Learning—to address the nation’s literacy crisis and equip the next generation of education leaders, teacher educators and advocates.
Posted on June 12, 2025
This year’s recipient of the Margaret C. Wright Memorial Alumni Award, Claire Hoag ’22 ’23M, teaches history and current events just 10 miles from Gordon, at the underserved community of Peabody Veterans Memorial High School.
Posted on March 9, 2025
Bill Laforme ’24M is now an English and history teacher at the Department of Youth Services (DYS) Northeast Regional Youth Service Center. He talks about what it's like working at a juvenile justice center that seeks to help detained and committed youth receive the education they need to get their life back on track.
Posted on November 4, 2024
This past summer the Herschend School of Education was a recipient of a Massachusetts Department of Elementary Secondary Education (DESE) grant that formed an Early Literacy Consortium to tutor children on the North Shore who were struggling with reading.
Posted on September 17, 2024
Ellen Ballock, Ph.D. and Priscilla Nelson ‘74, Ed.D. of the Herschend School of Education share their insights into the literacy crisis in America—and how Gordon is using the science of reading to combat it.
Posted on February 5, 2024
“For Gordon faculty, literacy is an issue of social responsibility and justice,” Ballock says. “This is why Gordon faculty are committed to the science of reading. We want all PK-12 students to develop into confident and skilled readers, and we know using evidence-based practices yields a benefit to all students.”
Posted on December 8, 2023
Gordon’s Graduate Public Health program has added certificates in Leadership and Health Management, Community Health and Epidemiology. The Graduate School of Education has added a certificate in the Science of Reading.
Posted on June 20, 2023
The program is among just 48 nationwide and is the only program in Massachusetts highlighted by NCTQ for going above and beyond the standards set by literacy experts for coverage of the most effective methods of reading instruction—often called the “science of reading.”