Meira Levinson is professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, following eight years as a middle school teacher in the Atlanta and Boston public schools. Her most recent books include Making Civics Count, which she coedited with David Campbell and Frederick Hess, and No Citizen Left Behind, which won awards in political science, philosophy, social studies, and education. A Chinese translation is forthcoming. Meira's recent work on educational ethics has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the Spencer Foundation. She earned a BA in philosophy from Yale University and a DPhil in political theory from Nuffield College, Oxford. Meira lives in Boston with her husband and two school-age daughters.
Jacob Fay is a doctoral student and member of the Early Career Scholar Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His research focuses on the ethics of education policy and practice, as well as contemporary theories of injustice. He has served as the cochair of the board of the Harvard Educational Review and was a member of the Spencer Foundation's Philosophy of Education Institute. Prior to his doctoral studies, he taught eighth-grade history at the Dwight-Englewood School in New Jersey. He holds an AB in history from Princeton University, an MA in American history from Brandeis University, an EdM from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and is a proud graduate of the Shady Hill Teacher Training Course. Jacob lives in Cambridge with his wonderful wife, Sarah.