Rethinking Online Education: Media, Ideologies, and Identities

Engaging Students in Disciplinary Literacy, K-6: Reading, Writing, and Teaching Tools for the Classroom

Forgotten Teachers, Forgotten Students: Witnessing the Common Core State Standards in a Self-Contained Special Education Classroom

This commentary discusses the implementation of the Common Core State Standards in a self-contained special education classroom.

History Education in the Formation of Social Identity: Toward a Culture of Peace

Promising Practices for Engaging Families in Literacy

Resilience Begins with Beliefs: Building on Student Strengths for Success in School

Building the Federal Schoolhouse: Localism and the American Education State

50 Myths & Lies that Threaten America’s Public Schools: The Real Crisis in Education

Student Loans: What’s the Big Deal?

This commentary surveys the principal issues with student loan policy in the US.

Digital Youth in Brick and Mortar Schools: Examining the Complex Interplay of Students, Technology, Education, and Change

This study explores how the confluence of promising instructional technology innovations and digitally driven youth culture affected the experiences of students in two southeastern United States high schools.

Differences in Intellectual Challenge of Writing Tasks Among Higher and Lower Value-Added English Language Arts Teachers

This study investigated the intellectual challenge of typical writing tasks and the intellectual quality of student work in classrooms of higher and lower value-added middle school English language arts teachers to understand what value-added modeling might capture in terms of writing instruction.

Cultural Identity and Allegiance Among Vietnamese Students and Their Organizations at the University of California, Irvine: 1980–1990

This is a historical study of the formation and role of the Vietnamese student organizations at the University of California, Irvine from 1980 to 1990.

What Charter Schools Can Teach Us About Teacher Voice

Charter schools were originally proposed as vehicles to give teachers more leadership opportunities; however, the sector has evolved to focus on empowering management over teachers, and today just 7% of charter schools are unionized. This commentary piece explores what lessons can be drawn from the experiences of charter schools, both positive and negative, and how to run schools and structure the teaching profession to build and retain strong teachers. A subset of charter schools are pioneering new avenues for empowering teachers that could be adopted in other public school settings.

Everyday Artists: Inquiry and Creativity in the Early Childhood Classroom

TechnoTeaching: Taking Practice to the Next Level in a Digital World

African American Women Educators: A Critical Examination of Their Pedagogies, Educational Ideas, and Activism from the Nineteenth to the Mid-twentieth Century

Design, Make, Play: Growing the Next Generation of STEM Innovators

Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Care and Education: Critical Questions, New Imaginaries and Social Activism: A Reader

Examining the Parent Trigger as a Strategy for School Reform and Parental Engagement

This article tracks the emergence of parent trigger policies, considers the political and financial forces that have supported the parent trigger movement, and examines evidence concerning the potential of this approach for improving schools, empowering parents, and enhancing democracy.

Irrational Exuberance for Market-based Reform: How Federal Turnaround Policies Thwart Democratic Schooling

This article evaluates the tensions with democratic education inherent in the federal School Improvement Grant program’s market-based school reforms. The paper culminates in a set of recommendations that are intended to re-center the purposes of public education for low-income students, students of color, and local communities in developing more equitable, democratic school turnarounds.

Participatory Democracy and Struggling Schools: Making Space for Youth in School Turnarounds

We synthesize scholarship about participatory democracy, youth–adult partnerships, and thirdspace in order to develop guiding principles for an inclusive and democratic approach to improving schools.

NCLB and Its Wake: Bad News for Democracy

This article examines the NCLB Act and its underlying reform agenda of increased “accountability” and “choice” in light of its consequences for education policymaking and democratic education.

As Free and as Just as Possible: The Theory of Marxian Liberalism

Albert Schweitzer's Legacy for Education: Reverence for Life

Social Efficiency and Instrumentalism in Education: Critical Essays in Ontology, Phenomenology, and Philosophical Hermeneutics