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Peer-Reviewed

Torres, E. (2024). Teaching Controversial Issues under Conditions of Political Polarization: A Case for Epistemic Refocusing. Educational Theory, 74(5), 696-714.

Cottrell, S., Torres, E., Harris, P. L., & Ronfard, S. (2023). Older children verify adult claims because they are skeptical of those claims. Child Development, 94(1), 172-186.

Cuzzolino, M. P., Grotzer, T. A., Tutwiler, M. S., & Torres, E. W. (2019). An agentive focus may limit learning about complex causality and systems dynamics: a study of seventh graders’ explanations of ecosystems. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 56(8), 1083-1105.

Research Reports

Weissbourd, R., Batanova, M., Laski, M., McIntyre, J., Torres, E., & Balisciano, N. (2023). Caring for the Caregivers. The Critical Link Between Parent and Teen Mental Health. The Making Caring Common Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. https://mcc.gse.harvard.edu/reports/caring-for-the-caregivers

Weissbourd, R., Batanova, M., Lovison, V., & Torres, E. (2021). Loneliness in America. The Making Caring Common Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. https://mcc.gse.harvard.edu/reports/loneliness-in-america

Weissbourd, R., Batanova, M., McIntyre, J., & Torres, E. (2020). How the pandemic is strengthening fathers’ relationships with their children. The Making Caring Common Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. https://mcc.gse.harvard.edu/reports/how-the-pandemic-is-strengthening-fathers-relationships-with-their-children

Torres, E., & Weissbourd, R. (2020). Do parents really want school integration? The Making Caring Common Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. https://mcc.gse.harvard.edu/reports/do-parents-really-want-school-integration

Other Writing

Eren, C., & Torres, E. (2025). Is it Time for End-of-College ‘Board’ Exams?. Discourse. https://www.discoursemagazine.com/p/is-it-time-for-end-of-college-board?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Weissbourd, R., Manning, G., & Torres, E. (2023). Teaching Students to Talk across Political Difference. Educational Leadership. 80(7), 20-26.

Torres, E. (2022). Review of Challenges to Academic Freedom by J. C. Hermanowicz. The Harvard Educational Review. 92 (4): 576–578. https://doi.org/10.17763/1943-5045-92.4.576

Torres, E. (2022). Review of Minds Wide Shut: How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us by G. S. Morson and S. Shapiro. The Harvard Educational Review. 92 (2): 310–313. https://doi.org/10.17763/1943-5045-92.2.310

Torres, E. (2021). Review of The Education Trap by C. V. Groeger. The Harvard Educational Review.  91 (2): 279–281. https://doi.org/10.17763/1943-5045-91.2.279