Harvard Education Letter Awarded Best Newsletter
Jun 15, 2010
Harvard Education Letter won two Distinguished Achievement Awards from the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) at a ceremony in Washington D.C. on June 8, 2010. AEP is a nonprofit member organization serving the educational resource industry.The Harvard Education Letter was awarded AEP’s “Best Newsletter” in the category of Adult Learning for the third time since 2007. “Manga is My Life,” by Michael Bitz, also won “Best Editorial.” The editorial was featured in the July/August 2009 issue of the Harvard Education Letter.
“Our goal in publishing the Harvard Education Letter is to help bridge the gaps between research and practice. We’re really delighted with this recognition of our work and hope that the articles we publish offer educators information and ideas that help them make a difference in the lives of children,” said Caroline Chauncey, editor of the Harvard Education Letter.
For more than four decades the AEP Awards have honored outstanding resources for teaching and learning. One of the largest and longest-running awards programs for educational products. The AEP Awards aim to identify products that exemplify the highest standards of professional, quality educational content, give credit and recognition to the organizations who are leading the way in this field, and set benchmarks to which the rest of the industry can aspire.
Other Harvard Education Letter articles that were finalists for Distinguished Achievement Awards included “Money and Motivation: New initiatives rekindle debate over the link between rewards and student achievement” by David McKay Wilson for “Best Learned Article” and “‘Platooning’ Instruction: Districts weigh pros and cons of departmentalizing elementary schools” by Lucy Hood for “Best News Story.”