Language, Dignity, and Educational Rights
February 18, 2022
by Luis E. Poza, PhD For all our efforts to describe and measure language in educational research and policy, I always come back to the words of a pair of… READ MORE
Category: Voices in Education
The Voices in Education blog features views and research from Harvard Education Press authors as well as Harvard Educational Review journal contributors.
On the Intersectional Amplification of Barriers to College Internships Participation
January 13, 2022
by Matthew Wolfgram, Brian Vivona, and Tamanna Akram Marisol is a twenty-year-old first-generation Latina college student studying justice studies at an urban comprehensive university. She works thirty hours a week,… READ MORE
Is Complicity in Oppression a Privilege? Toward Social Justice Education as Mutual Aid
December 15, 2021
by Nicolas Tanchuk, Tomas Rocha, and Marc Kruse “As a White person,” Peggy McIntosh (2017) once remarked, “I realized I had been taught about racism as something which puts others… READ MORE
Partnerships with Immigrant Families in Politically Polarized Times
December 7, 2021
by Adriana Villavicencio Close to a quarter of all public school students in the United States come from immigrant households; yet, K–12 schools struggle to effectively serve this population. This… READ MORE
Testing What Isn’t Taught and the Potential Consequences on Identity Formation
November 29, 2021
By Kristin J. Davin Emergent bilingual learners are accustomed to involuntarily taking many high-stakes tests in English, but a new policy asks them to voluntarily take a proficiency test of… READ MORE
Investing in Black Academic Leaders
November 22, 2021
By Russell S. Thacker and Sydney Freeman Jr. In 2017, the Philadelphia Inquirer highlighted the fact that the city’s three most prominent universities each had an African American serving in… READ MORE
We Can’t Go Back to Normal: Restorative Classrooms During COVID-19
November 9, 2021
By Maisha T. Winn and Lawrence Torry Winn In March of 2020, the world quickly came to a standstill as the reality of COVID-19 started to sink in. Some of… READ MORE
Counting Joy in School-Based Racial Equity Work
October 26, 2021
By Decoteau J. Irby If there has ever been a time where I’ve witnessed the widespread erosion of joyfulness among children and school-aged youth, it has been throughout the past… READ MORE
Democracy, Intellectual Virtues, and Education
October 13, 2021
By Jason Baehr For a democracy to function well, its citizens must, at a minimum, have reliable access to credible information and be able to distinguish it from information that… READ MORE
Curriculum is the Answer to Questions about CRT
September 29, 2021
By Evan C. Gutierrez Some governing bodies are working vigorously to ensure that every student has space in their classrooms to discuss race. Several states are working towards ethnic studies… READ MORE