ANNOUNCEMENT--UPDATE December 17, 2024
The open calls will now resume on January 15, 2025. Thank you for your continued patience.
The 2024-2025 Harvard Educational Review Editorial Board
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Due to the large number of manuscripts currently awaiting decisions, the Harvard Educational Review will be pausing the open call for Research Articles, Essays, Voices Essays, and Other Submissions, effective November 14, 2024, at 11:59 pm US Eastern time.
Any manuscripts already submitted through the open call and acknowledged by HER, as well as all invited manuscripts, R&R’d manuscripts, and manuscripts currently in production, are NOT affected in any way by the pause in open calls. You may continue to submit pieces to the open calls until November 14, 2024.
For additional information, please visit the Article Submission FAQ at the bottom of this webpage, https://hep.gse.harvard.edu/journals/about-harvard-educational-review/, or reach out by email to the Co-Chairs, Woohee Kim and Elizabeth Salinas, at HER_community@gse.harvard.edu.
The Editorial Board wishes to thank our authors for sharing their work with HER. We look forward to reviewing new manuscripts when we reopen our calls.
Thank you very much for your interest in Harvard Educational Review and for your patience with our process.
The 2024-2025 Harvard Educational Review Editorial Board
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The Harvard Educational Review is a journal of opinion and research in the field of education. Articles are selected, edited, and published by an editorial board of graduate students at Harvard University. The editorial policy does not reflect an official position of the faculty of Education or any other Harvard faculty. (print ISSN 0017-8055, online ISSN 1943-5045)
HER accepts contributions from researchers, scholars, policy makers, practitioners, teachers, students, and informed observers in education and related fields. In addition to original reports of research and theory, HER welcomes articles that reflect on teaching and practice in educational settings in the United States and abroad.
It is the policy of HER to review manuscripts that are not simultaneously being considered at another journal. HER will not consider manuscripts that are currently available online. To this end, the journal requires that authors remove manuscripts from publicly available websites before submission.
Thank you for your interest in the Harvard Educational Review. Please submit your manuscript under the appropriate submission category below. For more information about the types of submissions we consider as well as details about submission formatting and our review process, please see here
Thank you for your interest in becoming a member of the Harvard Educational Review (HER) Editorial Board.
Published by the Harvard Education Publishing Group, HER is a doctoral student-run, interdisciplinary journal that publishes research, essays, and reflections from educational researchers and practitioners. Editorial work at HER entails:
- Overseeing the content of the journal
- Reviewing submissions towards publishing four issues per year
- Discussing select manuscripts at weekly meetings
- Giving editorial feedback
- An opportunity to discuss issues of importance in education, develop collaborative relationships with scholars and colleagues, and gain editorial skills and scholarly publishing experience
- 2-year commitment (PhD) / 1-year (EdLD) with compensation
For more information about the work of the HER board, click here.
Criteria for Board Membership
The Board will review all aspects of an applicant’s candidacy. Criteria for selection to Board membership include:
1. Knowledge of a body of literature, field, and methodology
2. Critical thinking and analysis
- Ability to analyze articles, see strengths and areas for development
- Understanding and respecting authors through the academic writing process and product
3. Collaboration
- Ability to work on teams, work in pairs, and make decisions collaboratively in work situations
- Ability to work in groups of 10-14 people to decide matters of policy and manuscripts and contribute to that process
- Openness to new ideas and new ways of thinking
4. Contributing to the Board’s overall composition
- Adding to the board’s breadth of knowledge to achieve comprehensive expertise across a wide range of education areas
- Helping realize a well-rounded Board, with a variety of viewpoints and wide diversity of perspectives, background, and experience
5. Having respect for and commitment to scholarly publishing
- Taking seriously the work of the Board
- Respecting the Board, authors, and work we do together
6. Commitment to pushing for more just education systems
7. Commitment to the Board
- Two-year commitment (PhD) starting May 2025 and ending June 2027
- One-year commitment (EdLD) starting May 2025 and ending June 2026
To Apply
Click HERE to download a PDF file of the application as a guide for filling out the application on this site.
The application materials are due on or before Sunday, February 9, 2025, at 11:59 pm US Eastern time.
After submitting the application online, a current board member will contact you to schedule a one-hour interview. Interviews will be conducted in late February and cover questions about your interest in joining the Editorial Board, your research interests, your approach to evaluating scholarship, your approach to collaboration, and your time commitment to the Editorial Board. You will also be asked to reflect on your experience with the Screening Task and elaborate on the comments you provided. To schedule an interview, you will use an electronic sign-up process, which will be shared by a board member. The interview is a required part of the application process.
The same board member will send you editorial tasks that simulate essential board work. You will have approximately one week to return these assignments to HER. Please plan for some time in mid-February to complete these tasks. Completing these editorial tasks is a required part of the application process.
Please note:
- It is your responsibility to ensure that your application is complete. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
- Applicants currently on academic probation are not eligible for selection to the HER Board.
- The HGSE faculty must approve all candidates invited to join the 2025-2027 Editorial Board.
- We expect to inform you of our decision by mid-April 2025.
- You may email questions to HER_Vision@gse.harvard.edu or Woohee Kim, current Co-Chair at woohee_kim@g.harvard.edu.
Thank you for your interest.
This call is intended only for submission of manuscripts that have gone through the review process and been invited by the editorial board to be revised and resubmitted. Please do not use this category for manuscripts that have not been reviewed by the full editorial board. Please include a separate letter to the editors addressing the specific recommendations made in their letter to you. If you have any questions, please contact the invitations editor at HER_invites@gse.harvard.edu
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This call is intended only for submission of manuscripts that have been formally solicited by the editorial board. Please include the solicit proposal approved by the editorial board. If you have any questions about the process or want to request preliminary review of the manuscript, please contact the invitations editor at HER_invites@gse.harvard.edu
Thank you.
This call is intended only for submission of manuscripts invited by the editorial board. If you have any questions about the due date or preliminary review of the manuscript, please contact our invitations editor at HER_invites@gse.harvard.edu
Thank you.