Education Review is an open-access academic journal

Academic journal

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 publishing review

Review

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s of books in the field of education

Education

Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...

. It was established in 1998 by Gene V. Glass

Gene V. Glass

Gene V Glass is an American statistician and researcher working in educational psychology and the social sciences. He coined the term "meta-analysis" and illustrated its use in 1976 while a faculty member at the University of Colorado Boulder...

 and Nicholas Burbules

Nicholas Burbules

Nicholas C. Burbules is a Gutgsell Endowed Professor of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership and an affiliate of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretative Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...

 (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. The journal publishes peer-reviewed

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 essay

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 reviews and reviews of scholarly books. Reviews of books published in Spanish and Portuguese are also published. Reviews in English are edited by Glass and co-editor Melissa Cast-Brede (University of Nebraska at Omaha

University of Nebraska at Omaha

The University of Nebraska at Omaha is a four-year state university located in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Founded in 1908 as Omaha University, the institution became the public Municipal University of Omaha in 1931. It assumed its current name in 1968 following a merger into the University...

). Reviews in Spanish or Portuguese are edited by Gustavo Fischman (Arizona State University

Arizona State University

Arizona State University is a public research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the State of Arizona...

). Education Review publishes approximately 250 reviews each year. Starting in 2010, Education Review is published by the National Education Policy Center at the School of Education, University of Colorado at Boulder

University of Colorado at Boulder

The University of Colorado Boulder is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado...

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