Harvard Education Press: 98 books
Learning to Improve
How America’s Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
As a field, education has largely failed to learn from experience. Time after time, promising education reforms fall short of their goals and are abandoned as other promising ideas take their place. In Learning to Improve, the authors argue for a new approach. Rather than “implementing fast and...
When Research Matters
How Scholarship Influences Education Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
When Research Matters considers the complex and crucially important relationship between education research and policy.
In examining how and under what conditions research affects education policy, the book focuses on a number of critical issues: the history of the federal role in education...
Learning from the Experts
Teacher Leaders on Solving America's Education Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Learning from the Experts offers an intimate look at the ways education policies collide with everyday classroom practices and illustrates how thoughtful, solutions-oriented and results-driven teachers are reframing debates in education today.
Early career teachers now make up a “new majority”...
Beyond the Skills Gap
Preparing College Students for Life and Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
How can educators ensure that young people who attain a postsecondary credential are adequately prepared for the future? Matthew T. Hora and his colleagues explain that the answer is not simply that students need more specialized technical training to meet narrowly defined employment opportunities....
Unlearned Lessons
Six Stumbling Blocks to Our Schools' Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
"“Why is it,” writes noted assessment expert W. James Popham, “that today’s educators seem almost compelled to replicate their predecessors’ blunders?” Looking back over a career of more than fifty years in education, Popham identifies six key “unlearned lessons” in education...
Teaching and Learning for the Twenty-First Century
Educational Goals, Policies, and Curricula from Six Nations
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
This book describes how different nations have defined the core competencies and skills that young people will need in order to thrive in the twenty-first-century, and how those nations have fashioned educational policies and curricula meant to promote those skills. The book examines six countries—Chile,...
Schooling in the Workplace
How Six of the World's Best Vocational Education Systems Prepare Young People for Jobs and Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Which non-American education systems best prepare young people for fulfilling jobs and successful adult lives? And what can the United States—where far too many young people currently enter adulthood without adequate preparation for the twenty-first-century job market—learn, adopt, and adapt from...
Why Knowledge Matters
Rescuing Our Children from Failed Educational Theories
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
In Why Knowledge Matters, influential scholar E. D. Hirsch, Jr., addresses critical issues in contemporary education reform and shows how cherished truisms about education and child development have led to unintended and negative consequences.
Hirsch, author of The Knowledge Deficit, draws on recent...
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
What It Means for Schools, Systems, and States
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
In this foundational book, Frederick M. Hess and Max Eden bring together a cross-section of respected academics and journalists to examine key aspects of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
This volume provides a thematic and in-depth analysis of the central provisions of this landmark legislation,...
Restoring Opportunity
The Crisis of Inequality and the Challenge for American Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In this landmark volume, Greg J. Duncan and Richard J. Murnane lay out a meticulously researched case showing how—in a time of spiraling inequality—strategically targeted interventions and supports can help schools significantly improve the life chances of low-income children.
The authors...
Collateral Damage
How High-Stakes Testing Corrupts America's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Drawing on their extensive research, Nichols and Berliner document and categorize the ways that high-stakes testing threatens the purposes and ideals of the American education system.
For more than a decade, the debate over high-stakes testing has dominated the field of education. This passionate...
The Charter School Experiment
Expectations, Evidence, and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
When charter schools first arrived on the American educational scene, few observers suspected that within two decades thousands of these schools would be established, serving almost a million and a half children across forty states. The widespread popularity of these schools, and of the charter movement...
Education and the Environment
Creating Standards-Based Programs in Schools and Districts
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
In this timely book, curriculum expert Gerald A. Lieberman provides an innovative guide to creating and implementing a new type of environmental education that combines standards-based lessons on English language arts, math, history, and science with community investigations and service learning projects.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Social Network Theory and Educational Change offers a provocative and fascinating exploration of how social networks in schools can impede or facilitate the work of education reform.
Drawing on the work of leading scholars, the book comprises a series of studies examining networks among teachers...