Fall 2006 Highlights:

• Browse the contents of HER's Fall 2006 issue. Click here for the abstracts and to read the full-text of the book notes. To view the contents of recent issues of the HER, please click here.

• Click here to read "Mayoral Takeovers in Education: A Recipe for Progress or Peril?," from the Summer 2006 issue. This board editorial will open in pdf.

• Also in this issue, "Social, Emotional, Ethical, and Academic Education: Creating a Climate for Learning, Participation in Democracy, and Well-Being" by Jonathan Cohen, with a response from Nel Noddings. Click here to read an excerpt from Jonathan Cohen's article.

• Many thanks to the former board members who attented the evening event in celebration of our 75th anniversary on March 23, 2006 at the Askwith Forum. The forum was thought-provoking and the gathering at dinner very enjoyable.

• Mark R. Warren's Communities and Schools: A New View of Urban Education Reform from the Summer 2005 issue of the Harvard Educational Review was a finalist for the Distinguished Achievement Award for Best Learned Article from the Association of Educational Publishers. Click here to read an excerpt of the article.

• Just released--
  The Case for District-Based Reform: Leading, Building, and Sustaining School Improvement
  By Jonathan A. Supovitz

• Educational Entrepreneurship: Realities, Challenges, Possibilities
  Edited by Frederick M. Hess

• Online Professional Development for Teachers: Emerging Models and Methods
  Edited by Chris Dede

• International Education for the Millennium: Toward Access, Equity, and Quality
  Edited by Benjamin Piper, Sarah Dryden-Peterson, and Young-Suk Kim

• Collective Bargaining in Education: Negotiating Change in Today's Schools
  Edited by Jane Hannaway and Andrew J. Rotherham

• Moderating the Debate: Rationality and the Promise of American Education
  By Michael J. Feuer

• Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning
  Edited by Kathryn Parker Boudett, Elizabeth City, and Richard Murnane