The Promise and Limitations of a College-Going Culture: Toward Cultures of Engaged Learning for Low-SES Latina/o Youth

This study extends the "college-going culture" literature by providing a bilevel examination of organizational dimensions of efforts at an urban public charter school to promote Latina/o students' college-going.

“Failure” Irrelevant: Virtual Schools and Accountability-Immunity

This paper examines how a large virtual school grows and prospers in spite of receiving consistently “failing” “grades” from the state. In answering, the article suggests that the school is not just a school and must be understood instead as part of a fundamental transformation in the nature of educational institutions.

Finding Possibility in Pitfalls: The Role of Permeable Methods Pedagogy in Preservice Teacher Learning

This comparative case study investigates the role of context in learning to teach writing in two university-based post-baccalaureate preparation programs. The author uses a cultural-historical theoretical lens to identify differences in teacher candidates' experiences within and across methods course and field placement activities, which were consequential for their learning.

Beyond Actions: Psychology of Action Research for Mindful Educational Improvement

Education and Empowered Citizenship in Mali

Happiness, Hope, and Despair: Rethinking the Role of Education

From the Faculty Perspective: Defining, Earning, and Maintaining Legitimacy Across Academia

The aim of this research project is to study how faculty members across different types of institutions understand and define legitimacy with regard to their academic careers.

The Fluency Factor: Authentic Instruction and Assessment for Reading Success in the Common Core Classroom

Race and the Origins of Progressive Education, 1880-1929

Inequality, Democracy, and the Environment

A Model of Continuous Improvement in High Schools: A Process for Research, Innovation Design, Implementation, and Scale

This article describes the continuous improvement model used by the National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools to boost performance among urban high schools.

Large-Scale High School Reform Through School Improvement Networks: Exploring Possibilities for “Developmental Evaluation”

This analysis examines developmental evaluation as an approach to analyzing school improvement networks as “learning systems” able to produce, use, and refine practical knowledge in large numbers of schools.

Scaling Up STEM Academies Statewide: Implementation, Network Supports, and Early Outcomes

This article highlights the early outcomes of the T STEM initiative in Texas, the largest investment in scaling up inclusive STEM-focused schools at the time. It describes the broad infrastructure undergirding T STEM academy development.

Taking Teacher Learning to Scale: Sharing Knowledge and Spreading Ideas Across Geographies

This study explores how three organizations—Big Picture Learning, EL Education, and Internationals Network—meet the challenges of growing effective teacher learning communities while also scaling their school designs across geographies.

Why So Fragile? How a University Lost an Opportunity to Denounce White Privilege

In this commentary, we take a look at the response to an Arizona State University (ASU) course titled, “U.S. Race Theory and the Problem of Whiteness,” which sparked protests and death threats for the course’s professor. We examine the media’s reaction, as well as ASU’s quiet response to the controversy. We argue that ASU failed to use the national spotlight as a platform to shed light on racism in higher education.

Emerging Web 3.0/Semantic Web Applications in Higher Education

Poor Implementation of Learner-Centered Practices: A Cautionary Tale

This article presents implementation findings from a randomized, controlled trial of the Cognitive Tutor Geometry curriculum that found a statistically significant negative effect of the curriculum.

Reconceptualizing Literacy in the New Age of Multiculturalism and Pluralism, Second Edition

Measuring Teacher Effectiveness Using Value-Added Models of High School Achievement

Authors use data from the Hillsborough County Public Schools in Florida to consider the consequences of particular characteristics of instruction and testing in high school for the modeling and estimation of value-added measures of school or teacher effectiveness.

Creating and Sustaining Secondary Schools’ Success: Sandfields, Cwmtawe, and the Neath-Port Talbot Local Authority’s High Reliability Schools Reform

Data from a 15-year, mixed-methods study of all 11 secondary schools in one British local authority demonstrate the value of adopting High Reliability Organization principles.

Mutual Adaptation in Action

This paper explores a distinctive aspect of International Baccalaureate’s effort to scale up in Title I schools. The effort reflects what we call mutual adaptation in action.

Assessing Critical Thinking in a Data-Driven Educational System

The current educational environment has left teachers trapped between the accountability mandates of high stakes testing and the desire to provide an authentic, skills-based curriculum that is rich in critical thinking activities. As the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is implemented nationwide, teachers and districts should seize the opportunity to develop alternative assessment tools that incorporate more authentic measurement of students’ critical thinking skills.

Implications for Scaling Up Advanced Course Offerings and Takings: Evidence from Florida

This article summarizes a set of research studies that focus on high school course offerings, takings, and effects. Courses, being the gateway to higher student performance and access to college, have been used as a policy lever to increase the rigor of students’ high school experiences.

The Evolution of the High School in America

This article describes the evolution of political, social, and economic environments that affect secondary education in the United States over four centuries. Historical analysis and an equilibrium model of organizational change are used to guide the discussion.

School Turnaround Through Scaffolded Craftsmanship

This article describes the turnaround process for improved high schools that were part of North Carolina’s Turnaround Schools program.