Brown v. Board of Education’s True Meaning
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
Category: Harvard Education Press Authors
Authors of Harvard Education Press books share their views, opinions, and research in the Voices in Education blog.
Keeping Kids Safe at School Webinar Recording and Recap
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
Reculture Before You Restructure
August 1, 2024
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
It’s Time for Radical Equality
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
Growing and Sustaining Science Classroom Communities
May 15, 2023
By David Stroupe, Anna Kramer, and Lindsay Berk Teaching has always been crucial and underappreciated profession across the world. Almost everyone spends some time in a school, and in those… READ MORE
Broadening STEM Opportunities: Why So Slow?
May 1, 2023
By Margaret A. Eisenhart and Lois Weis On December 7, 2022, President Biden announced a new initiative “to provide all students with the opportunities they need to access and excel… READ MORE
Platform Studies in Education
September 12, 2022
by T. Philip Nichols and Antero Garcia One of the most significant changes to education in the last decade is the proliferation of platform technologies in teaching, learning, and administration…. READ MORE
How Schools Stay the Same: A Study of White Parent Opposition to Ethnic Studies
August 22, 2022
by Ethan Chang Ethnic Studies, an interdisciplinary curriculum and pedagogy that centers the insights of Black, Indigenous, and minoritized peoples, 1 has become one of several targets of predominantly white parent opposition…. READ MORE
Pedagogies for Spiritual Development? Canadian–Muslim Educators Share Insights
May 10, 2022
by Claire Alkouatli Most expressions of education in North America center normative conceptions of the human being who teaches and learns as a composite construction of embodied cognitions and emotions…. READ MORE
More Veteran Students Attended For-Profit Colleges Since the Post-9/11 GI Bill
April 26, 2022
by Liang Zhang For-profit colleges enroll a disproportionately large number of veteran students relative to public and private nonprofit colleges; the imbalance has been reinforced since the implementation of the… READ MORE