The Voices in Education blog features views and research from Harvard Education Press authors as well as Harvard Educational Review journal contributors.
August 16, 2024
At our back-to-school webinar, HEP authors Ed Brockenbrough, Dorothy L. Espelage, and Charol Shakeshaft discussed what teachers and parents can do to promote and protect the well-being of students. They… READ MORE
August 12, 2024
By Michael V. Singh What does it mean to call upon men of color (MOC) teachers to perform a “culturally relevant” manhood for boys of color? And how might (mis)framings… READ MORE
August 1, 2024
With racism, bias, and racially-charged misinformation increasingly in the news, HEP books offer tools for teachers, school leaders, and students to interrogate racist ideas and act toward just outcomes. In… READ MORE
By Peter W. Cookson, Jr. For the last several years I have immersed myself in the world of high poverty schools to better understand how we can create schools that… READ MORE
July 22, 2024
By María Cioè-Peña Over 6 million people living in the United States self-identify as Black Latines or Afro-Latinos. Their claim to their Blackness is in jeopardy. In multiple US states,… READ MORE
July 8, 2024
By Randy-Michael Testa With the words “finding my voice” firmly entrenched in pop culture as a stand-in for everything from speaking one’s truth to bailing out of a bad relationship,… READ MORE
June 3, 2024
By Jacob Pleasants, Daniel G. Krutka, and T. Philip Nichols New technologies are rapidly transforming our societies, our relationships, and our schools. Look no further than the intense — and… READ MORE
May 24, 2024
By Jessica Scott, Stephanie Gardiner-Walsh, and G. Sue Kasun Academia has a storied history of denying minoritized perspectives their rightful place in the ivory tower. This continues, despite the individuals… READ MORE
May 9, 2024
By Margaret Beale Spencer and Nancy E. Dowd Brown v. Board of Education famously stands for the principle of the equality of all. Yet on the seventieth anniversary of Brown, we… READ MORE
February 15, 2024
By Sharon Stein and Jan Hare Indigenous thinkers have long pointed to the central role of colonialism in creating the climate and nature emergency, but institutions of higher education have… READ MORE