The History of Education Quarterly is celebrating its sixtieth year of publication in 2020. During that time, it has published over 1,500 articles and extended reviews. An examination of these articles reveals several enduring themes that have shaped the field and that will likely continue to do so as HEQ moves into its seventh decade. Given this, the editors have asked scholars to envision that future. Using select articles from the past as starting points, volume 60 features a series of forums in which historians of education consider future avenues of research related to designated themes.

Contributors to this final, sixtieth anniversary forum on Education, Ethnicity, and Race used three articles as springboards for examining potential new directions in the study of ethnicity/race and the history of education. They are: Victoria-María McDonald's “Hispanic, Latino, Chicano or ‘Other’?: Deconstructing the Relationship between Historians and Hispanic-American Educational History” (2001), Eileen H. Tamura's “Asian Americans in the History of Education: An Historiographical Essay” (2001), and K. Tsianina Lomawaima's “History without Silos, Ignorance versus Knowledge, Education beyond Schools” (2014). Scholars Rosina Lozano, Stephanie Hinnershitz, Derek Taira, Liping Bu, and Kim Cary Warren each take a different perspective on the subject, exploring the significance of different ways of conceptualizing ethnicity, race, and education as well as potential insights from comparative race studies.