The Voices in Education blog features views and research from Harvard Education Press authors as well as Harvard Educational Review journal contributors.
January 3, 2025
By Django Paris The interrelated crises of climate catastrophe, emboldened white supremacy, resurging fascism, pandemics, and ongoing genocides have been increasingly unrelenting features of our lives and those of the… READ MORE
December 6, 2024
By Joel M. Phillips and Kelsey A. Dalrymple Social emotional learning (SEL) is under fire from both sides of the political spectrum. But clues for its future can be informed… READ MORE
November 13, 2024
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… READ MORE
October 18, 2024
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… READ MORE
October 4, 2024
By Danielle M. Greene-Bell and Francis A. Pearman, II A less appreciated aftershock of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, which recently celebrated its seventieth anniversary, was that its… READ MORE
September 23, 2024
By Margaret Beale Spencer and Nancy E. Dowd Brown v. Board of Education is often treated as an icon; as standing for the best of us. But we make too little… READ MORE
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