Each day, Dunham middle and upper school students can be found seated around a table, engaged in deep discussions, sharing ideas supported by evidence in their academic materials, and listening to ...

MMI Preparatory School recently purchased two Harkness tables to transform two classrooms into collaborative learning labs to help prepare students for the discussion-based learning courses they will ...

The classroom is filled with chatter—questions, comments, and, mostly, opinions fly around the room—yet Sarah Wadleigh, the teacher, sits quietly at the lectern doodling. The unfolding events are all ...

Yale's ten "colleges" serve just about the same function as Harvard's Houses, but it was like pulling teeth before Yale would accept the Harkness millions that made the project possible. In fact, were ...

View Harkness Chapel on a map. Florence Harkness Memorial Chapel at Case Western Reserve University was built in 1902 to honor Florence Harkness Severance, daughter of Stephen V. Harkness and Anna M.