Summer 2010

Humanizing Education
Critical Alternatives to Reform

Edited by Gretchen Brion-Meisels, Kristy S. Cooper, Sherry L. Deckman, Christina L. Dobbs, Chantal Francois, Thomas Nikundiwe, Carla Shalaby

Humanizing Education: Critical Alternatives to Reform is a collection of essays from the Harvard Educational Review that offer historic examples of hopeful and humanizing educational spaces, practices, and movements that embody a spirit of hope and change.

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Education and War

Edited by Elizabeth E. Blair, Rebecca B. Miller, and Mara Casey Tieken

This timely book examines the complex and varied relations between educational institutions and societies at war. Drawn from the pages of the Harvard Educational Review, the essays provide multiple perspectives on how educational institutions support and oppose wartime efforts.

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Indigenous Knowledge and Education
Sites of Struggle, Strength, and Survivance

Edited by Malia Villegas, Sabina Rak Neugebauer, and Kerry R. Venegas

This book brings together essays that explore Indigenous ways of knowing and that consider how such knowledge can inform educational practices and institutions.

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The Opportunity Gap
Achievement and Inequality in Education

Edited by Carol DeShano da Silva, James Philip Huguley, Zenub Kakli, and Radhika Rao

The Opportunity Gap aims to shift attention from the current overwhelming emphasis on schools in discussions of the achievement gap to more fundamental questions about social and educational opportunity.

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International Education for the Millennium
Toward Access, Equity, and Quality

Edited by Benjamin Piper, Sarah-Dryden-Peterson, and Young-Suk Kim

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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Special Education for a New Century

Edited by Lauren I. Katzman, Allison Gruner Gandhi, Wendy S. Harbour, and J.D. LaRock

Special Education for a New Century pays particularly close attention to how inclusive education practices can best be promoted in the era of standards-based accountability.

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