There are myriad strategies for selling a book. What first comes to mind are the obvious conventions of book signings, conferences, interviews, TV, radio, blogs, Amazon reviews, and email blasts. These basics have all been fruitful in promoting my recent publication Fearing the Stigmata (Loyola Press 2012).

Yet...

I'm quite certain both teams were included in the intentions of countless rosaries during morning Mass. Prayers not specifically for a win, but as a diplomatic priest would say from the pulpit, "Blessings for our boys to play their best."

(But please Lord, make sure our team's best is...

When Taye Diggs walked into the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Longfellow Hall, he was likely expecting a fairly typical interview. Promoting his new children's book, Chocolate Me!, with illustrator and friend Shane Evans, Diggs (nor myself) could really have anticipated what happened next on the...

Over the past few months, my heart has gone out to the U.S. nuns. Since the recent review from the Vatican, I have wanted to express to them how meaningful their work is and just how profoundly grateful I am for their history of impact on my life...

As Harvard University students prepare for this week's commencement exercises, Harvard Graduate School of Education student Sammy Lemoonga, Ed.M. '12, shares a farewell prayer for his graduating class. Sammy is a member of the Samburu tribe in northern Kenya and (along with his wife), recreated an...

General Colin Powell is arguably one of our nation's most respected public servants. He is a diplomat, a general, yet also a lifelong educator and proponent of schools and student successes through America's Promise Alliance. He is a man whose first name punctuates the following 'POW' that he...

"We got Oprah!" exclaimed Lady Gaga, as thunderous applause erupted from the throngs of eager ticket holders in Harvard's historic Sanders Theater.

So did we.

As fans and supporters filed out of the star-studded Askwith Forum launch of Lady Gaga's Born This Way...

The interview began with a playful introduction:

"And today our guest is a former standout of Australia's National Basketball League, but to our non-Tasmanian listeners, you may know him better as the United States Secretary of Education."

Fresh off meetings with college presidents and government officials at...

They are both history teachers, but not in the way you might think.

Rather than chalkboard and textbook, their tools of trade are hip hop and song...and these two twenty-somethings are beginning to make social studies more sociable. Known to the world as Scott Free and Shoeless Jeff, their...

Teaching kids about HIV and AIDS presents its challenges.

The pedagogy is a complex issue, from countries that don't like to discuss this subject to teachers who don't know how. World AIDS Day looks to address the myriad hurdles of informing the public since the first AIDS patient was...

It was a different kind of college tour for actor and comedian Rainn Wilson (Dwight Schrute from The Office).

Rooms were packed, students excited, but comedy was not the topic. Arriving at the Harvard Graduate School of Education after visiting Tufts and MIT, Wilson came to discuss educational...

He is arguably the most famous math tutor in the world.

Both founder and faculty, Sal Khan is the visionary and voice behind one of the most innovative and successful online platforms in education called Khan Adacemy. If you are of the 87 million who have watched one of his...