Harvard Educational Review

2009

  1. Spring

    Indigenous Knowledges and the Story of the Bean
    Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy and Emma Maughan

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  2. Summer 2009
    Youth Voices
    What Will Barack Obama’s Election Mean to My Education?
    Destinee Mentor-Richards
    Youth Voices
    Watch Out for the Future President, Messiah Jenkins!
    Messiah Jenkins
    It Wasn’t Easy to Get Here
    Kathleen Mayse
    Youth Voices
    Resurrecting Validity
    Keenan Ramsey
    Youth Voices
    Let’s Erase Racism with Obama!
    Vivian Maika O’Connor
    Equity and Empathy
    Toward Racial and Educational Achievement in the Obama Era
    Prudence L. Carter
    Second-Class Integration
    A Historical Perspective for a Contemporary Agenda
    Vanessa Siddle Walker
    Youth Voices
    Another Obstacle?
    Monica Wang
    Youth Voices
    In These Uncertain Times, Your Most Valuable Investment
    Grace Aviles
    Obama’s Dilemma
    Postpartisan Politics and the Crisis of American Education
    Henry A. Giroux
    Reclaiming Our Freedom to Teach
    Education Reform in the Obama Era
    Megan Behrent
    Youth Voices
    Education Brought to a New Level
    Isabelle Pickering
    Youth Voices
    A Child’s View on Education
    Shelby Schultz
    Youth Voices
    Barack Obama for My Education
    Audrey Delgado
    Promise and Peril
    Charter Schools, Urban School Reform, and the Obama Administration
    Charles Payne and Tim Knowles
    Youth Voices
    Is Racism Really Over in America?
    Sarah Prickett
    Youth Voices
    My Hero, Barack Obama
    Darion Lyon
    Youth Voices
    Obama Presidency: An Education Solution?
    Dayzia Terry
    Youth Voices
    My Education
    Emanuel Johnson
    President Obama and Education
    The Possibility for Dramatic Improvements in Teaching and Learning
    Linda Darling-Hammond
    A Dialogue
    Our Selves, Our Students, and Obama
    Jennifer McLaughlin and Kim Kelly
    Youth Voices
    Letter to Barack Obama
    Cassandra Silvas
    Youth Voices
    T-Shirts, Key Chains, and Civic Duty
    Charlie Smith
    Youth Voices
    The Wanted Hope
    Olutomi Subulade
    Youth Voices
    President Obama
    Vernon Johnson
    Youth Voices
    Inauguration—A Found Poem
    Noah Hawkins Rosen
    Note to Educators
    Hope Required When Growing Roses in Concrete
    Jeffrey M. R. Duncan-Andrade
    Editors’ Introduction
    Youth Voices
    Hope for Education Reform
    Kyle Glavey-Weiss
    Obama, Where Art Thou?
    Hoping for Change in U.S. Education Policy
    Wayne Au
    Praise Song for Teachers
    A Call to Action
    Ariane White
    Youth Voices
    We Trust in Barack Obama: A Story of Immigration
    Edely
    Youth Voices
    Chasing the Dream
    Ismael C. E.
    Educating Latino Immigrant Students in the Twenty-First Century
    Principles for the Obama Administration
    Carola Suárez-Orozco and Marcelo Suárez-Orozco
    Youth Voices
    Fly Bird, Fly!
    Joanne Lee
    Youth Voices
    What Will Barack Obama’s Presidency Mean for My Education?
    Sasha Ariel Alston
    Education for Everyday People
    Obstacles and Opportunities Facing the Obama Administration
    Gloria Ladson-Billings
    Youth Voices
    Dear Mr. President
    Ashley Arkhurst
    Youth Voices
    Our Future Is Bright—Let It Shine
    Kaeshawn Allen
    An Insurrectionary Generation
    Young People, Poverty, Education, and Obama
    Jay Gillen
    An Earned Insurgency
    Quality Education as a Constitutional Right
    Robert P. Moses
    Youth Voices
    A Moment That Inspired a Lifetime
    Merissa Magdael-Lauron
    Youth Voices
    The Times They Are A-Changin’
    Nick Judt
    Barack Obama and the Fight for Public Education
    William Ayers
    Coda: The Slow Fuse of Change
    Obama, the Schools, Imagination, and Convergence
    Maxine Greene
    Additional Youth Voices
    Exclusive Online Features

    Summer

    President Obama and Education
    The Possibility for Dramatic Improvements in Teaching and Learning
    Linda Darling-Hammond

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  3. Fall

    High School Research and Critical Literacy
    Social Studies With and Despite Wikipedia
    Houman Harouni

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  4. Winter 2009
    Foreword
    Sylvia Hurtado
    Editors’ Introduction
    Ángeles, Sacrificios, y Dios
    A Puerto Rican Woman’s Journey Through Higher Education
    Marisa Rivera
    Latina/o Undergraduate Students Mentoring Latina/o Elementary Students
    A Borderlands Analysis of Shifting Identities and First-Year Experiences
    Dolores Delgado Bernal, Enrique Alemán Jr., and Andrea Garavito
    Existentialism at Home, Determinism Abroad
    A Small-Town Mexican American Kid Goes Global
    Joe Robert González
    From the Bricks to the Hall
    Mellie Torres
    The Re-Education of a Pocha-Rican
    How Latina/o Studies Latinized Me
    Arelis Hernandez
    Sin Papeles y Rompiendo Barreras
    Latino Students and the Challenges of Persisting in College
    Frances Contreras
    Dimensions of the Transfer Choice Gap
    Experiences of Latina and Latino Students Who Navigated Transfer Pathways
    Estela Mara Bensimon and Alicia C. Dowd
    Critical Race Theory, Racial Microaggressions, and Campus Racial Climate for Latina/o Undergraduates
    Tara Yosso, William Smith, Miguel Ceja, and Daniel Solórzano
    M.E.
    Mexican American and Educated
    Marlen Vasquez
    Increasing Latino/a Representation in Math and Science
    An Insider’s Look
    Jarrad Aguirre
    Challenging Racist Nativist Framing
    Acknowledging the Community Cultural Wealth of Undocumented Chicana College Students to Reframe the Immigration Debate
    Lindsay Pérez Huber
    Results Not Typical
    One Latino Family’s Experiences in Higher Education
    Margarita Jimenez-Silva, Norma V. Jimenez Hernandez, Ruth Luevanos, Dulcemonica Jimenez, and Abel Jimenez Jr.
    Barriers to Success
    A Narrative of One Latina Student’s Struggles
    Jannell Robles
    The Xicana Sacred Space
    A Communal Circle of Compromiso for Educational Researchers
    Lourdes Diaz Soto, Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon, Elizabeth Villarreal, and Emmet E. Campos

    Winter

    Critical Race Theory, Racial Microaggressions, and Campus Racial Climate for Latina/o Undergraduates
    Tara Yosso, William Smith, Miguel Ceja, and Daniel Solórzano

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2008

  1. Spring 2008
    Introduction
    Why Adolescent Literacy Matters Now
    Jacy Ippolito, Jennifer L. Steele, and Jennifer F. Samson
    Adolescent Literacy
    Putting the Crisis in Context
    Vicki A. Jacobs
    Teaching Disciplinary Literacy to Adolescents
    Rethinking Content-Area Literacy
    Timothy Shanahan and Cynthia Shanahan
    Redefining Content-Area Literacy Teacher Education
    Finding My Voice through Collaboration
    Roni Jo Draper
    Cognitive Strategy Instruction for Adolescents
    What We Know about the Promise, What We Don’t Know about the Potential
    Mark W. Conley
    The Complex World of Adolescent Literacy
    Myths, Motivations, and Mysteries
    Elizabeth Birr Moje, Melanie Overby, Nicole Tysvaer, and Karen Morris
    Toward a More Anatomically Complete Model of Literacy Instruction
    A Focus on African American Male Adolescents and Texts
    Alfred W. Tatum
    Implementing a Structured Reading Program in an Afterschool Setting
    Problems and Potential Solutions
    Ardice Hartry, Robert Fitzgerald, and Kristie Porter
    State Literacy Plans
    Incorporating Adolescent Literacy
    Catherine Snow, Twakia Martin, and Ilene Berman
    Beyond Writing Next
    A Discussion of Writing Research and Instructional Uncertainty
    David Coker and William E. Lewis
    Editor's Review of Double the Work and The Language Demands of School
    Sabina Rak Neugebauer
    Editor's Review of Informed Choices for Struggling Adolescent Readers and Taking Action on Adolescent Literacy
    Jacy Ippolito

    Spring

    Teaching Disciplinary Literacy to Adolescents
    Rethinking Content-Area Literacy
    Timothy Shanahan and Cynthia Shanahan

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  2. Summer 2008
    Hijacking Education Policy Decisions
    Ballot Initiatives and the Case of Affirmative Action
    Michele S. Moses and Lauren P. Saenz, University of Colorado at Boulder
    Different Worlds and Divergent Paths
    Academic Careers Defined by Race and Gender
    Juanita Johnson-Bailey and Ronald M. Cervero, The University of Georgia
    Language and the Performance of English-Language Learners in Math Word Problems
    Maria Martiniello, Educational Testing Service
    The New Outspoken Atheism and Education
    Nel Noddings, Stanford University, Emerita
    Beyond NCLB and AYP
    One Superintendent’s Experience of School District Reform
    Ron Sofo, Freedom Area School District, Pennsylvania
    Editor's Review of Small Schools and Urban Youth: Using the Power of School Culture to Engage Students
    by Gilberto Q. Conchas and Louie F. Rodriguez; Foreword by Hugh Mehan
    By James P. Huguley

    Summer

    Language and the Performance of English-Language Learners in Math Word Problems
    Maria Martiniello, Educational Testing Service

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  3. 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
    Editor's Review of The Aesthetics of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal, translated by Adrian Jackson and
    The Theatre of Urban: Youth and Schooling in Dangerous Times by Kathleen Gallagher
    Review by Radhika Rao

    Fall

    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

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  4. Winter 2008
    Interview with Geeta Rao Gupta, International Center for Research on Women
    Editors
    Free Marketeers, Policy Wonks, and Yankee Democracy
    School Vouchers in New Hampshire, 1973–1976
    Jim Carl, Cleveland State University
    Can Higher Education Meet the Needs of an Increasingly Diverse and Global Society?
    Campus Diversity and Cross-Cultural Workforce Competencies
    Uma M. Jayakumar, University of Michigan
    Modeling Compassion in Critical, Justice-Oriented Teacher Education
    Hilary Gehlbach Conklin, University of Georgia
    Testing the Waters
    Three Elements of Classroom Inquiry
    Pat Clifford and Susan J. Marinucci, Galileo Educational Network Association
    Editor's Review of Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Peoples’ Resistance to Globalization and A New Paradigm for Global School Systems: Education for a Long and Happy Life
    Malia Villegas

    Winter

    Can Higher Education Meet the Needs of an Increasingly Diverse and Global Society?
    Campus Diversity and Cross-Cultural Workforce Competencies
    Uma M. Jayakumar, University of Michigan

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2007

  1. Spring 2007
    Pathways to the Presidency
    Biographical Sketches of Women of Color Firsts
    Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner, Arizona State University
    Financial Aid
    A Broken Bridge to College Access?
    Bridget Terry Long, Harvard Graduate School of Education and Erin Riley, Consultant
    The Effect of Loans on Students’ Degree Attainment: Differences by Student and Institutional Characteristics
    Dongbin Kim, University of Kansas
    Editor's Review of African Education and Globalization: Critical Perspectives
    Edited by Ali A. Abdi, Korbla P. Puplampu, and George J. Sefa Dei
    Benjamin Piper

    Spring

    Financial Aid
    A Broken Bridge to College Access?
    Bridget Terry Long, Harvard Graduate School of Education and Erin Riley, Consultant

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  2. Summer

    Teaching How Language Reveals Character
    Margaret Metzger

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  3. Fall 2007
    Legal Literacy for Teachers
    A Neglected Responsibility
    David Schimmel and Matthew Militello
    “I Was Born Here, but My Home, It’s Not Here”
    Educating for Democratic Citizenship in an Era of Transnational Migration and Global Conflict
    Thea Renda Abu El-Haj
    Surveillance Cameras in Schools
    An Ethical Analysis
    Bryan R. Warnick
    Symposium
    Voices for Peace: Educators Respond to the Virginia Tech Shootings

    Fall

    Surveillance Cameras in Schools
    An Ethical Analysis
    Bryan R. Warnick

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  4. Winter 2007
    Symposium
    Equity and Access in Higher Education
    The Editors
    Community Colleges as Gateways and Gatekeepers
    Moving beyond the Access “Saga” toward Outcome Equity
    Alicia C. Dowd
    College Admissions in Twenty-First-Century America
    The Role of Grades, Tests, and Games of Chance
    Rebecca Zwick
    Test-Optional Admission at a Liberal Arts College
    A Founding Mission Affirmed
    Brian J. Shanley
    Expanding Equal Opportunity
    The Princeton Experience with Financial Aid
    Shirley M. Tilghman
    Is Teaching for Social Justice Undemocratic?
    Eric B. Freedman
    From Visibility to Autonomy
    Latinos and Higher Education in the U.S., 1965–2005
    Victoria-María MacDonald, John M. Botti, and Lisa Hoffman Clark
    Editor's Review of Tough Choices or Tough Times: The Report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce by the National Center on Education and the Economy.
    Shannon T. Hodge
    Editor's Review of Adult English Language Instruction in the United States and Securing the Future
    Sarah Dryden-Peterson

    Winter

    College Admissions in Twenty-First-Century America
    The Role of Grades, Tests, and Games of Chance
    Rebecca Zwick

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2006

  1. Spring 2006
    Community Forces, Social Capital, and Educational Achievement
    The Case of Supplementary Education in the Chinese and Korean Immigrant Communities
    By Min Zhou and Susan S. Kim
    (In)Fidelity
    What the Resistance of New Teachers Reveals about Professional Principles and Prescriptive Educational Policies
    By Betty Achinstein and Rodney T. Ogawa
    An Interview with Khalil Mahshi
    No Longer Overlooked and Undervalued?
    The Evolving Dynamics of Endogenous Educational Research in Sub-Saharan Africa
    Richard Maclure
    Editor's Review - College Choices edited by Caroline M. Hoxby
    Baoyan Cheng

    Spring

    Community Forces, Social Capital, and Educational Achievement
    The Case of Supplementary Education in the Chinese and Korean Immigrant Communities
    By Min Zhou and Susan S. Kim

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  2. Summer 2006
    From the Editors: Mayoral Takeovers in Education
    A Recipe for Progress or Peril?
    The Editors
    Mayoral Leadership in Education
    Current Trends and Future Directions
    Michael D. Usdan, Michael W. Kirst, Fritz Edelstein, Kenneth K. Wong, Paul T. Hill, Warren Simmons, Ellen Foley, Marla Ucelli
    Social, Emotional, Ethical, and Academic Education
    Creating a Climate for Learning, Participation in Democracy, and Well-Being
    By Jonathan Cohen
    Educating Whole People
    A Response to Jonathan Cohen
    By Nel Noddings
    Paulo Freire in Chile, 1964–1969
    Pedagogy of the Oppressed in Its Sociopolitical Economic Context
    By John D. Holst
    Editor's Review - Building School-Community Partnerships by Mavis G. Sanders
    Soo Hong

    Summer

    Social, Emotional, Ethical, and Academic Education
    Creating a Climate for Learning, Participation in Democracy, and Well-Being
    By Jonathan Cohen

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  3. Fall 2006
    Sexuality Education and Desire
    Still Missing after All These Years
    Michelle Fine and Sara McClelland
    What Community Participation in Schooling Means
    Insights from Southern Ethiopia
    Jennifer Swift-Morgan
    The Aspira Consent Decree
    A Thirtieth-Anniversary Retrospective of Bilingual Education in New York City
    Luis O. Reyes
    Implementing Small Theme High Schools in New York City
    Great Intentions and Great Tensions
    Jacqueline Ancess and David Allen
    Editor's Review of See You When We Get There: Teaching for Change in Urban Schools by Gregory Michie
    Megin Charner-Laird

    Fall

    Sexuality Education and Desire
    Still Missing after All These Years
    Michelle Fine and Sara McClelland

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  4. Winter 2006
    Foreword (full text)
    Senator Edward M. Kennedy
    Introduction to Assessing NCLB (full text)
    The Editors
    No Child Left Behind
    The Ongoing Movement for Public Education Reform
    Rod Paige
    From New Deal to No Deal
    No Child Left Behind and the Devolution of Responsibility for Equal Opportunity
    Harvey Kantor and Robert Lowe
    Will NCLB Improve or Harm Public Education?
    John W. Borkowski and Maree Sneed
    Domesticating a Revolution
    No Child Left Behind Reforms and State Administrative Response
    Gail L. Sunderman and Gary Orfield
    Real Improvement for Real Students
    Test Smarter, Serve Better
    Betty J. Sternberg
    Why Connecticut Sued the Federal Government over No Child Left Behind
    Richard Blumenthal
    Getting Ruby a Quality Public Education
    Forty-Two Years of Building the Demand for Quality Public Schools through Parental and Public Involvement
    Arnold F. Fege
    Accountability without Angst?
    Public Opinion and No Child Left Behind
    Frederick M. Hess
    Forces of Accountability?
    The Power of Poor Parents in NCLB
    John Rogers
    No Child Left Behind and High School Reform
    Linda Darling-Hammond
    Troubling Images of Teaching in No Child Left Behind
    Marilyn Cochran-Smith and Susan Lytle
    High School Students’ Perspectives on the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act’s Definition of a Highly Qualified Teacher
    Veronica Garcia, with Wilhemina Agbemakplido, Hanan Abdella, Oscar Lopez Jr., and Rashida T. Registe

    Winter

    No Child Left Behind and High School Reform
    Linda Darling-Hammond

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2005

  1. Spring 2005
    Introduction
    Gary Orfield
    Does History Matter in Education Research?
    A Brief for the Humanities in an Age of Science
    Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
    Students’ Development in Theory and Practice
    The Doubtful Role of Research
    Kieran Egan
    Public Education in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
    High Hopes, Broken Promises, and an Uncertain Future
    Sonia Nieto
    What “Counts” as Educational Policy?
    Notes toward a New Paradigm
    Jean Anyon
    Comparative and International Education
    A Journey toward Equality and Equity
    Nelly P. Stromquist
    Afterword
    Kevin K. Kumashiro

    Spring

    Public Education in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
    High Hopes, Broken Promises, and an Uncertain Future
    Sonia Nieto

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  2. Summer 2005
    Communities and Schools
    A New View of Urban Education Reform
    Mark R. Warren
    Adjusting Inequality
    Education and Structural Adjustment Policies in Tanzania
    Frances Vavrus
    Learning from Self-Study
    Gaining Knowledge about How Fourth Graders Move from Relational Description to Algebraic Generalization
    Laura Grandau
    Editor's Review of Amilcar Shabazz's Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas
    Richard J. Reddick

    Summer

    Communities and Schools
    A New View of Urban Education Reform
    Mark R. Warren

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  3. Fall 2005
    Thinking Collaboratively about the Peer-Review Process for Journal-Article Publication
    Kevin K. Kumashiro, with additional contributions by William F. Pinar, Elizabeth Graue, Carl A. Grant, Maenette K. P. Benham, Ronald H. Heck, James Joseph Scheurich, Allan Luke, and Carmen Luke
    Dropping Out of High School among Mexican-Origin Youths
    Is Early Work Experience a Factor?
    Anane N. Olatunji
    Black Dean
    Race, Reconciliation, and the Emotions of Deanship
    Jonathan David Jansen
    Editor's Review of The Teaching Career, edited by John I. Goodlad and Timothy J. McMannon
    Morgaen L. Donaldson

    Fall

    Thinking Collaboratively about the Peer-Review Process for Journal-Article Publication
    Kevin K. Kumashiro, with additional contributions by William F. Pinar, Elizabeth Graue, Carl A. Grant, Maenette K. P. Benham, Ronald H. Heck, James Joseph Scheurich, Allan Luke, and Carmen Luke

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  4. Winter 2005
    Katrina and Rita
    What Can the United States Learn from International Experiences with Education in Displacement?
    From the Editors
    Interview: U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings (full text)
    Gender Differences in Factors Leading to College Enrollment
    A Longitudinal Analysis
    Maria Estela Zarate and Ronald Gallimore
    Youth Radio and the Pedagogy of Collegiality
    Elisabeth Soep and Vivian Chávez
    Similarity and Superunknowns
    An Essay on the Challenges of Educational Research
    Ralf St. Clair
    Editor's Review: We Are All the Same by Jim Wooten
    Priya G. Nalkur
    Editor's Review: Adolescent Boys edited by Niobe Way and Judy Y. Chu
    Lionel C. Howard

    Winter

    Gender Differences in Factors Leading to College Enrollment
    A Longitudinal Analysis
    Maria Estela Zarate and Ronald Gallimore

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