6 New Books from Harvard Education Press

#BlackEducators Matter
By Darrius Stanley
HEP, February 2024
This collection of personal accounts, educator portraits, and research findings assembled by Darrius Stanley, an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota, spotlights the critical work of Black K–12 educators in the United States. The collection lays out historical and contemporary issues faced by Black educators and the efforts they have made to fight oppression and racism as they continue to have a positive impact on students, schools, and society. The essays also offer strategies that education leaders can use to recruit, retain, and support Black educators in K–12 schools. 

Core Practices in Teacher Education
By Pam Grossman and Urban Fraefel
HEP, March 2024 
In this new book, Pam Grossman, a professor of education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, and Urban Fraefel, professor emeritus of education at the University of Northwestern Switzerland, look at the shift in teacher education programs in the United States and across the globe as they focus more centrally on practice and new ways to reorganize their preparation programs. With teachers facing many common challenges, this book offers an international perspective on the work related to practice-based teacher education and core ways of educating students. 

Transformative Science Teaching
By Daniel Morales-Doyle
HEP, April 2024
For more than a decade, author Daniel Morales-Doyle taught high school science in the Chicago Public Schools. Now an associate professor of science education at the University of Illinois Chicago, Morales-Doyle tackles in this new book what science education is and could be. Challenging middle and high school science teachers to think differently about instructional priorities, Morales-Doyle offers lesson plans and suggests more emphasis on topics relevant to students’ lives, such as racial and environmental justice, which could give all students, not just those focused on STEM careers, a closer connection to the sciences and their communities.

System Wise
By Adam Parrott-Sheffer, Ed.M.’09, Ed.L.D.’20; Carmen Williams, Ed.L.D.’22; David Rease Jr., Ed.L.D.’14; and Senior Lecturer Kathryn Parker Boudett
HEP, April 2024
Following up on Data Wise, the popular step-by-step guide published in 2005 that showed individual school leaders how to use information like test scores and classroom data to improve teaching and learning, System Wise extends the Data Wise process from classrooms and schools to broader educational contexts. Using real-world stories, planning checklists, and implementation templates, the authors show how district leaders and school systems can benefit from the improved use of data rooted in what they call the ACE habits of mind: action, collaboration, and evidence.

School Communities of Strength
By Peter Cookson Jr., C.A.S.’91
HEP, April 2024
In his latest book, Peter Cookson, the author of more than 15 books focused on inequality and education, and a senior research fellow at the Learning Policy Institute in California, provides strategies for educating the 5 million children who live with the extreme material hardship known as deep poverty. Geared toward K–12 schools, the strategies include whole-child teaching and learning, asset-based approaches, and creating a relationship-centered school culture. To help schools improve their “poverty responsiveness,” he says, will require adequate funding and meaningful collaboration among families, neighborhood partners, and educators. 

Lifting the Veil on Enrollment Management
By Stephen Burd
HEP, May 2024
Lifting the Veil explores some of the factors that contributed to the rise of the enrollment management industry, including a deep interest in college rankings. Enrollment management, or the strategies and tactics used by colleges and universities to attract and retain students while keeping control over their established goals, has evolved to shape college admissions in the United States ever since the term was coined in 1976. The essays in this book explore the rise of these strategies, as well as the inequities that have been caused, and include recommendations to reduce the industry’s influence, especially for low-income students.

Find these books on the Harvard Ed Press website