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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:

Summer 2009

Editors’ Introduction

Note to Educators:
Hope Required When Growing Roses in Concrete
Jeffrey M. R. Duncan-Andrade

A Dialogue:
Our Selves, Our Students, and Obama
Jennifer McLaughlin and Kim Kelly

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

Promise and Peril:
Charter Schools, Urban School Reform, and the Obama Administration
Charles Payne and Tim Knowles

Reclaiming Our Freedom to Teach:
Education Reform in the Obama Era
Megan Behrent

Obama’s Dilemma:
Postpartisan Politics and the Crisis of American Education
Henry A. Giroux

Second-Class Integration:
A Historical Perspective for a Contemporary Agenda
Vanessa Siddle Walker

Equity and Empathy:
Toward Racial and Educational Achievement in the Obama Era
Prudence L. Carter

It Wasn’t Easy to Get Here
Kathleen Mayse

Obama, Where Art Thou?:
Hoping for Change in U.S. Education Policy
Wayne Au

Praise Song for Teachers:
A Call to Action
Ariane White

Educating Latino Immigrant Students in the Twenty-First Century:
Principles for the Obama Administration
Carola Suárez-Orozco and Marcelo Suárez-Orozco

Education for Everyday People:
Obstacles and Opportunities Facing the Obama Administration
Gloria Ladson-Billings

An Insurrectionary Generation:
Young People, Poverty, Education, and Obama
Jay Gillen

An Earned Insurgency:
Quality Education as a Constitutional Right
Robert P. Moses

Barack Obama and the Fight for Public Education
William Ayers

Coda: The Slow Fuse of Change:
Obama, the Schools, Imagination, and Convergence
Maxine Greene

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