The ''Harvard Educational Review'' is an

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of opinion and research dealing with

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, associated with the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and published by the Harvard Education Publishing Group. The journal was established in 1930. Since 1945, editorial decisions have been carried out by an autonomous graduate student

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. This student board works together to bring to publication manuscripts on a wide range of topics and from a number of disciplines.

Alumni

Notable alumni of the ''Harvard Educational Review'' include: * Lisa Delpit, educationalist and

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, sociologist, author, poet, and visual artist *

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (born August 22, 1944) is an American sociologist who examines the culture of schools, the patterns and structures of classroom life, socialization within families and communities, and the relationships between culture an ...

, educational sociologist and

* Orval Hobart Mowrer, psychologist and former president of the

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Lauren Resnick Lauren B. Resnick is an educational psychologist who has made notable contributions to the cognitive science of learning and instruction. She is a professor of psychology at the University of Pittsburgh, and was previously director of the Univers ...

, educational psychologist * Theodore Sizer, educationalist and founder of the

Coalition of Essential Schools The Coalition of Essential Schools is a US organization created to further a type of whole-school reform originally envisioned by founder Ted Sizer in his book, ''Horace's Compromise.'' The group began in 1984 with twelve schools and grew to 600 m ...

Julian Stanley Julian Cecil Stanley (July 9, 1918 – August 12, 2005) was an American psychologist. He was an advocate of accelerated education for academically gifted children. He founded the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY), as wel ...

, psychologist and founder of the

Center for Talented Youth The Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY) is a gifted education program for school-age children founded in 1979 by psychologist Julian Stanley at Johns Hopkins University. It was established as a research study into how academically adv ...

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* {{Authority control Harvard University academic journals Education journals Publications established in 1930 English-language journals Quarterly journals Academic journals edited by students