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Meira Levinson is a political theorist/philosopher of education who is working to start a global field of educational ethics that is philosophically rigorous, disciplinarily and experientially inclusive, and both relevant to and informed by educational policy and practice. In doing so, she draws upon scholarship from multiple disciplines as well as her eight years of experience teaching middle school humanities, civics, history, and English in the Atlanta and Boston Public Schools. 

Meira has written or co-edited nine books, including  and  (both 2024, with Ellis Reid, Tatiana Geron, and Sara O’Brien),  (2023, co-authored with Jeremy Murphy),  (2019, with Jacob Fay), winner of the 2020 AERA Moral Development and Education SIG Outstanding Book Award, and  (2016, with Jacob Fay). Her book  (2012) won awards in political science, philosophy, social studies, and education and has been translated into  and . Meira shares educational ethics resources on , materials to support K-12 educators working in politically charged environments at Educational Values in Action, and resources for youth activists and teacher allies at . Each of these projects reflects Levinson's commitment to achieving productive cross-fertilization — without loss of rigor — among scholarship, policy, and practice.

Meira earned a B.A. in philosophy from Yale and a D.Phil. in politics from Nuffield College, Oxford University. Her work has been supported by fellowships from Guggenheim, the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and the National Academy of Education. Prior to joining the º£½ÇÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø faculty, Meira taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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