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
November 4, 2020
by Erika M. Kitzmiller In 1997, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania passed legislature that paved the way for the charter school movement. The supporters of charter schools include current Secretary of… READ MORE
October 12, 2016
by Gary Thomas on October 12, 2016 William Bennett, US education secretary in the 1980s, came up with the term “the Blob” to describe education’s bureaucracy. Recently, in the United… READ MORE
June 23, 2016
by Mark Hlavacik on June 23, 2016 Who is to blame for the failures of the public education system in the United States? Teachers? Parents? Politicians? Administrators? Students? Maybe it’s… READ MORE
April 13, 2016
by Connie K. Chung and Fernando M. Reimers on April 13, 2016 In the book-turned-movie The Martian, Matt Damon plays Mark Watney, an astronaut who gets stranded on Mars and then… READ MORE
March 1, 2016
by Huriya Jabbar on March 1, 2016 Advocates of school choice argue that when parents can “vote with their feet,” they will choose better schools for their children, which in… READ MORE
January 25, 2016
by Jane S. Hirschi on January 25, 2016 With President Obama’s signing of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in 2015, the landscape for children’s education shifts once again. Advocates… READ MORE
December 14, 2015
by Michelle J. Bellino on December 14, 2015 Many societies transitioning from periods of authoritarianism and mass conflict opt to silence the past in classrooms, avoiding the political and pedagogical… READ MORE
February 26, 2014
Heather Zavadsky on February 26, 2014 Part of why classrooms look the same as they did more than fifty years ago is the tendency to cling to traditional instructional delivery… READ MORE