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Get ready for Black Friday & Cyber Monday

Our biggest sale of the year is just around the corner. In the meantime, read our holiday gift guide to see which books will make the best gifts for the educators in your lives.

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The Privateers

Truth, Controversy, and Book Publishing in the 21st Century

Learn about the making of our new book The Privateers by Josh Cowen. For University Press Week, HEP editor Shannon Davis shared the story of acquiring a controversial title.

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HEP webinar

What’s Working:
Where Schools Are Getting It Right

Video recording now available

Panelists: Michael Casserly, Peter W. Cookson, Jr., and Michael B. Matsuda
Moderated by Meredith I. Honig

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Spring 2025 Catalog

New books incoming! See what the Spring season has in store.

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Harvard Educational Review

Read the Fall 2024 issue.

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Voices in Education

HEP’s 2024 Holiday Gift Guide

The holiday season is officially here, so it’s time to find the perfect gifts for the educators on your list! To make your shopping as stress-free as possible, we’ve compiled…

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Stepping Up: “The Privateers,” Truth, Controversy, and Book Publishing in the 21st Century

By Shannon Davis In the Fall of 2022, I was a relatively new editor at Harvard Education Press. Coming from the glamorous world of legal textbooks, and before that, general…

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Political Polarization and the Classroom: Exposure Versus Indoctrination

By Ashley Rogers Berner It’s election time, and classrooms are not livin’ easy. America’s schools are both collateral damage of the culture-warring and polarization that characterize the public square and…

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