Harvard Education Press

Education and the Obama Presidency
A Special Issue of the Harvard Educational Review

This special issue of the Harvard Educational Review considers the challenges and opportunities facing President Barack Obama in his efforts to reform educational policy and practice in the United States. With contributions from leading education scholars, school practitioners, and K-12 students, the volume offers an uncommonly rich array of perspectives on Obama’s election and presidency—and on what the new administration might accomplish on behalf of schools and students in the United States. A volume that takes the full measure of the problems confronting today’s educators—but also of the sense of promise and excitement inspired by the new president and his administration—this issue of the Harvard Educational Review is an indispensable account of this dramatic and eventful moment in American education.

Contributors include Wayne Au, William Ayers, Prudence L. Carter, Linda Darling-Hammond, Jeffrey M. R. Duncan-Andrade, Henry A. Giroux, Maxine Greene, Tim Knowles, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Robert P. Moses, Charles Payne, Vanessa Siddle Walker, Carola Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, and others.

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