Meira Levinson

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.