CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Harvard University has received a $35 million donation to help study early childhood education. The donation is the largest ever to Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. It comes from the Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation. Harvard says the donation will be used to conduct one of the largest studies on early education since the 1970s. The five-year study will follow a group of 3-year-old children to answer questions about the long-term effects of early education, how much to invest in preschool education and which models work best. It will also help train teachers and offer fellowships to students studying early education. Saul Zaentz was a film producer for three movies that won Best Picture Academy Awards, including “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” He died in 2014. Copyright © 2020 The Washington Times, LLC.
The Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation has made the largest-ever charitable donation to Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, with a $35m cash injection to train teachers and support the largest study of childhood education undertaken since the 1970s. “Harvard is one of America’s great universities, but we are also an institution that cares deeply about our students and their success,” said David L. Cohen, president of the foundation.