The Harvard Educational Review (print ISSN 0017-8055, online ISSN 1943-5045) is a scholarly journal of opinion and research in education. It provides an interdisciplinary forum for discussion and debate about the field's most vital issues. Since its founding in 1930, HER has become one of the most prestigious education journals, with circulation to policymakers, researchers, administrators, and teachers.

From the Current Issue:

Fall 2008

Putting the “Development” in Professional Development:
Understanding and Overturning Educational Leaders’ Immunities to Change

Deborah Helsing, Annie Howell, Robert Kegan, Lisa Lahey, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Achievement as Resistance:
The Development of a Critical Race Achievement Ideology among Black Achievers

Dorinda J. Carter, Michigan State University

Unpacking the Placement of American Indian and Alaska Native Students in Special Education Programs and Services in the Early Grades:
School Readiness as a Predictive Variable

Jacob Hibel, Susan C. Faircloth, The Pennsylvania State University, and George Farkas, University of California, Irvine

Capturing Authenticity, Transforming Perception:
One Teacher’s Efforts to Improve Her Students’ Performance by Challenging Their Impressions of Self and Community

William H. Marinell, Harvard Graduate School of Education

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This volume sheds light on contemporary theoretical work and research, on a range of national and international polices, and on education reform in developing countries.

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