Special Issue from Harvard Educational Review on Education and the Obama Presidency
Jul 1, 2009
The Harvard Educational Review new special issue on Education and the Obama Presidency is now available. It features articles from scholars and practitioners, as well as students who responded to the question of how their education would be affected by the presidency of Barack Obama.
Here are a few highlights:
• From her unique perspective gained heading Obama’s education policy transition team, Linda Darling-Hammond from Stanford University considers how the field of education might look in 2016 should the Obama’s education agenda succeed.
• Charles Payne and Tim Knowles from the University of Chicago argue that, given President Obama’s support of charter schools, we should closely consider both their possibilities and limitations in the context of urban school reform.
• In a powerfully argued essay, Jeff Duncan-Andrade from San Francisco State University explores the concept of hope, which was central to the Obama campaign, as essential for nurturing urban youth.
• Carola Suárez-Orozco and Marcelo Suárez-Orozco of New York University address one of the most critical challenges facing President Obama’s administration: meeting the educational needs of Latino and other immigrant children in the U.S.
• Campaign lightning rod William Ayers of the University of Illinois at Chicago argues for true democratic schooling. Stories of the 2008 election punctuate his argument about the urgency of seizing this moment to disrupt the dominant framework defining public education reform.
In addition to these scholarly essays, there are a number of practitioner pieces including Megan Behrent on education reform in the Obama era, a poem from Ariane White called “Praise Song for Teachers,” Jay Gillen on “Young People, Poverty, Education and Obama,” and more.
Also featured in this special issue are Youth Voices including Shelby Shultz on “A Child’s View on Education,” an essay from Vivian Maika O’Connor titled “Let’s Erase Racism with Obama!” and others.
Here are additional exclusively online Youth Voices:
• Just an Object by Eloise Ackman
• The Other Side of Education by Amanda Capers
• Obama vs. Education by Diana Cox
• Barack Obama and My Education by Micah Fedenko
• Education Fears by Dominique Jamison
• The Hope for Education by Jordan Powell
• You helped me BELIEVE by Lasha Williams
• Obama’s Education Priorities by Louisa Winchell
Youth Radio, a Peabody Award winning youth-driven production company in Oakland, California, organized a roundtable discussion with some youth to consider the question that HER posed: What will the Obama Presidency mean for your educational prospects and struggles? Click here to listen to the Obama Education Roundtable.
Here are a few highlights:
• From her unique perspective gained heading Obama’s education policy transition team, Linda Darling-Hammond from Stanford University considers how the field of education might look in 2016 should the Obama’s education agenda succeed.
• Charles Payne and Tim Knowles from the University of Chicago argue that, given President Obama’s support of charter schools, we should closely consider both their possibilities and limitations in the context of urban school reform.
• In a powerfully argued essay, Jeff Duncan-Andrade from San Francisco State University explores the concept of hope, which was central to the Obama campaign, as essential for nurturing urban youth.
• Carola Suárez-Orozco and Marcelo Suárez-Orozco of New York University address one of the most critical challenges facing President Obama’s administration: meeting the educational needs of Latino and other immigrant children in the U.S.
• Campaign lightning rod William Ayers of the University of Illinois at Chicago argues for true democratic schooling. Stories of the 2008 election punctuate his argument about the urgency of seizing this moment to disrupt the dominant framework defining public education reform.
In addition to these scholarly essays, there are a number of practitioner pieces including Megan Behrent on education reform in the Obama era, a poem from Ariane White called “Praise Song for Teachers,” Jay Gillen on “Young People, Poverty, Education and Obama,” and more.
Also featured in this special issue are Youth Voices including Shelby Shultz on “A Child’s View on Education,” an essay from Vivian Maika O’Connor titled “Let’s Erase Racism with Obama!” and others.
Here are additional exclusively online Youth Voices:
• Just an Object by Eloise Ackman
• The Other Side of Education by Amanda Capers
• Obama vs. Education by Diana Cox
• Barack Obama and My Education by Micah Fedenko
• Education Fears by Dominique Jamison
• The Hope for Education by Jordan Powell
• You helped me BELIEVE by Lasha Williams
• Obama’s Education Priorities by Louisa Winchell
Youth Radio, a Peabody Award winning youth-driven production company in Oakland, California, organized a roundtable discussion with some youth to consider the question that HER posed: What will the Obama Presidency mean for your educational prospects and struggles? Click here to listen to the Obama Education Roundtable.