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Please see below for your Harvard Education Publishing Group e-newsletter for November 2, 2021.
VOICES IN EDUCATION
Counting Joy in School-Based Racial Equity Work
"Educators must concern themselves with cultivating a deep love for learning, self, and community amongst their students,” states HEP author Decoteau J. Irby in his Voices in Education blog post. He examines the negative impact that COVID-19 and remote learning has had on student enjoyment and engagement at school, and explores how educators can remedy this by incorporating joy into their teaching. 

HARVARD EDUCATION PRESS
Continuous Improvement in High Schools
Continuous Improvement in High Schools gives educators and policymakers an accessible, actionable framework to address one of the nation's most important educational priorities: improving high school graduation and postsecondary preparedness rates. Martha Abele Mac Iver and Robert Balfanz, national experts in dropout prevention, apply the Carnegie Foundation’s continuous improvement framework to the issue of student success in high school. A proven tool for organizational change, the framework provides a systematic structure for examining the root causes of problems and testing possible solutions.

AUTHOR INTERVIEW
Immigration Enforcement and Educational Equity
HEP authors Patricia Gándara and Jongyeon Ee recently sat down for an interview with the Trending in Education podcast. They spoke about the difficulties that immigrant families face in the US, how immigration enforcement worsens educational equity, and the ways in which school administrators and teachers can better support immigrant students.

AUTHOR COMMENTARY
The Problem with Ranking Schools
HEP author Ethan Hutt wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post that examines the controversy sparked by the U.S. News and World Report’s decision to release a list ranking the top elementary and middle schools in the country. Hutt explores the history of school rankings, as well as their problems. He writes that “numbers narrow attention and shift blame,” and argues that comparing schools without looking at historical contexts and inequities isn’t meaningful and won’t help improve education.

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