Harvard Educational Publishing, publisher of journals for and about the education market, has announced a book imprint. The press had previously published some book collections of its journal articles, but had never commissioned original work.
Books will be aimed primarily at teachers and administrators, with a smattering of policy-related material thrown in. The inaugural list reflects this mission; among the planned titles are The 21st Century Principal, Teaching as a Profession and, in the policy arena, Racial Inequity in Special Education. All will be collections of articles written exclusively for these books.
"We had done well [with our previous type of books] but we want to aim at readerships we haven't reached as much," said HEP director Doug Clayton.
The press is a nonprofit unit of Harvard Education School. It plans on handling its own distribution and has not hired additional personnel for the new imprint.
