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Harvard Education Letter Awarded Top Honors in Publishing

Posted: June 26, 2007

The Harvard Education Letter was recently named Best Overall Newsletter in the adult learning category by the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP).  The award was presented at a special ceremony in Washington, D.C.

The Ed Letter — a finalist in multiple AEP award categories — bested 134 other entries for the Best Overall Newsletter title.

“This is a major award and big honor for us,” said Ed Letter Editor Caroline Chauncey. “We want to continue to do work worthy of recognition.”

Now in its 22nd year in print, the bimonthly newsletter features articles written by journalists, academics, and staff about current education issues. Recent issues have included stories on the qualities that make a good teacher, the parent-teacher conference, and No Child Left Behind.

“We try to step back and get the bigger picture, in terms of bringing to bear recent research that educators are facing,” Chauncey said.

A judge commented that the newsletter is “literate, interesting, well researched and argued. Clear and easy to follow. Strikes the right balance between intellectual rigor and accessible style.”

The AEP, founded in 1895, facilitates communication among key interest groups such as educators, policymakers, educational foundations and associations, businesses, and the education media.