2024 was a fantastic year at Harvard Education Press. This past year, we published a wide variety books that contribute to the knowledge and greater understanding of educational issues that are of central importance to our society. We can’t wait to share everything that we have planned for 2025! Here are highlights from the past year and some books we are looking forward to:
Deliberative Policymaking
Redesigning How We Make Education Policy
By Elizabeth Grant
2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
In Deliberative Policymaking, Elizabeth Grant advances a fresh framework for making collective decisions about US schools.
Democracy and Reform in Public Schools
The Case for Collaborative Partnerships
By Saul Rubinstein, Charles Heckscher, and John McCarthy
2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
In Democracy and Reform in Public Schools, Saul Rubinstein, Charles Heckscher, and John McCarthy apply their expertise in labor relations to public school reform.
Teach for Climate Justice
A Vision for Transforming Education
By Tom Roderick
2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
In Teach for Climate Justice, accomplished educator and social and emotional learning expert Tom Roderick proposes a visionary interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to PreK–12 climate education.
#BlackEducatorsMatter
The Experiences of Black Teachers in an Anti-Black World
Edited by Darrius A. Stanley
Winner of the 2024 American Educational Studies Association (AESA) Critics Choice Book Award
The personal accounts, educator portraits, and research findings assembled by Darrius A. Stanley in #BlackEducatorsMatter constitute an unstinting exploration of the experiences of Black K–12 teachers in the United States.
Growing and Sustaining Student-Centered Science Classrooms
By David Stroupe
Winner of the 2024 American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) Gloria J. Ladson-Billings Outstanding Book Award
In Growing and Sustaining Student-Centered Science Classrooms, David Stroupe promotes powerful conversation and action around knowledge-building practices in science education.
Not Paved for Us
Black Educators and Public School Reform in Philadelphia
By Camika Royal
Winner of the 2024 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Outstanding Book Award
Not Paved for Us chronicles a fifty-year period in Philadelphia education, and offers a critical look at how school reform efforts do and do not transform outcomes for Black students and educators.
From Tinkering to Transformation
How School District Central Offices Drive Equitable Teaching and Learning
By Meredith I. Honig and Lydia R. Rainey
Winner of the 2024 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division A’s Excellence in Research Award
In From Tinkering to Transformation, Meredith I. Honig and Lydia R. Rainey call on superintendents and other district leaders to rethink the very premises that underlie the long-standing ways of working in their central offices.
“Whatever It Is, I’m Against It”
Resistance to Change in Higher Education
By Brian Rosenberg
2024 PROSE Award Finalist
In “Whatever It Is, I’m Against It,” president emeritus of Macalester College Brian Rosenberg draws on decades of higher education experience to expose the entrenched structures, practices, and cultures that inhibit meaningful postsecondary reform.
The Privateers
How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers
By Josh Cowen
In The Privateers, Josh Cowen lays bare the surprising history of tax-funded school choice programs in the United States and warns of the dangers of education privatization.
How Schools Make Race
Teaching Latinx Racialization in America
By Laura C. Chávez-Moreno
In How Schools Make Race, Laura C. Chávez-Moreno uncovers the process through which schools implicitly and explicitly shape their students’ concept of race and the often unintentional consequences of this on educational equity.
Organizational Betrayal
How Schools Enable Sexual Misconduct and How to Stop It
By Charol Shakeshaft
In Organizational Betrayal, educational researcher Charol Shakeshaft advocates a system-wide approach for safeguarding K–12 students against educator sexual misconduct.
The Enduring Promise of America’s Great City Schools
By Michael Casserly
In The Enduring Promise of America’s Great City Schools, Michael Casserly presents a forthright assessment of the past performance and future potential of large urban PreK–12 school districts in the United States.
The Big Lie About Race in America’s Schools
Edited by Royel M. Johnson and Shaun R. Harper
The Big Lie About Race in America’s Schools delivers a collective response to the challenge of racially charged misinformation, disinformation, and censorship that increasingly permeates and weakens not only US education but also our democracy.
System Wise
Continuous Instructional Improvement at Scale
By Adam Parrott-Sheffer, Carmen Williams, David Rease Jr., and Kathryn Parker Boudett
In System Wise, Adam Parrott-Sheffer, Carmen Williams, David Rease, Jr., and Kathryn Parker Boudett provide a blueprint to scale up the Data Wise process for continuous improvement, extending it from classrooms and schools to broader educational contexts.
Educational Pluralism and Democracy
How to Handle Indoctrination, Promote Exposure, and Rebuild America’s Schools
By Ashley Rogers Berner
In Educational Pluralism and Democracy, education policy expert Ashley Rogers Berner envisions a K–12 education system that serves both the individual and the common good.
Delivering Promise
Equity-Driven Educational Change and Innovation in Community and Technical Colleges
By Xueli Wang
In Delivering Promise, award-winning scholar of higher education Xueli Wang tells a story of educational change and innovation that has and continues to occur at countless campuses of community and technical colleges.
Radical Brown
Keeping the Promise to America’s Children
By Margaret Beale Spencer and Nancy E. Dowd
In Radical Brown, renowned developmental scholar Margaret Beale Spencer and critical legal analyst Nancy E. Dowd offer a fresh perspective on the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
Transformative Science Teaching
A Catalyst for Justice and Sustainability
By Daniel Morales-Doyle
Transformative Science Teaching promotes science instruction as a venue to fuel students’ imaginations, complex thinking, and commitments to sustainability while also cultivating their sense of wonder about the world.
School Rethink 2.0
Putting Reinvention into Practice
Edited by Frederick M. Hess, Michael B. Horn and Juliet Squire
In School Rethink 2.0, editors Frederick M. Hess, Michael B. Horn, and Juliet Squire gather leaders immersed in the nuts-and-bolts work of educational reinvention to present ten promising education improvements and ways to implement them.
Who Needs College Anymore?
Imagining a Future Where Degrees Won’t Matter
By Kathleen deLaski
With keen insight, Kathleen deLaski reimagines what higher education might offer and whom it should serve in Who Needs College Anymore?
Rethinking Chronic Absenteeism
Why Schools Can’t Solve It Alone
By Sarah Winchell Lenhoff and Jeremy Singer
In Rethinking Chronic Absenteeism, Sarah Winchell Lenhoff and Jeremy Singer reframe chronic absenteeism as a symptom of a complex set of factors affecting the student, family, and community rather than simply an accountability metric for educators, schools, or districts.
How We See Us
Young People Imagining a Path to Their Futures
By Michaela M Leslie-Rule
In How We See Us, Michaela Leslie-Rule amplifies the voices of young people approaching adulthood as they consider their experiences, needs, and goals for their education, early careers, and lives.