Institutionalizing In Loco Parentis after Gott v. Berea College (1913)

This article argues that the doctrine of in loco parentis served as the justification for the sweeping reconstruction of undergraduate life in the 1920s, when administrators and faculty instituted a host of academic, social, and psychological programs and services to help keep students in college.

Expulsion Litigation and the Limits of In Loco Parentis, 1860-1960

This article argues that the power to discipline students in loco parentis was limited by countervailing emphases on college access and due process well before the legal revolutions of the 1960s and 1970s.

“It’s Her Fault”: An Illinois School Board Fires a Guidance Counselor For Self-Publishing a Sexually Explicit Advice Book on Adult Relations

An Illinois school board fired a tenured guidance counselor because he self-published a sexually explicit advice book on adult relationships. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the school board's decision on the grounds that the board reasonably believed that the book could undermine the integrity of the school counseling program.

Teaching Marx: The Socialist Challenge

Restoring Opportunity: The Crisis of Inequality and the Challenge for American Education

The Handbook on Innovations in Learning

I Can Learn from You: Boys as Relational Learners

Big-City School Reforms: Lessons from New York, Toronto, and London

Don’t “LEGO” of Public Schools: The Movie as Yet Another LEGO Instruction Manual

This essay provides a metaphorical reading of The LEGO Movie, suggesting that the movie itself can serve as an instruction manual, the kind for which LEGO is well known. In this reading, the movie offers step-by-step instructions about how Americans can win the fight against privatizing, corporatizing forces that are attacking our public education system. The author shares these instructions and urges readers to follow them – even though they are, ironically, from a kind of instruction manual – as a way to commit ourselves anew to building and continually re-creating schools that help American youth change the world, not serve corporations’ self-interest.

Learning for Leadership: Developmental Strategies for Building Capacity in Our Schools

The Redesign of Urban School Systems: Case Studies in District Governance

Migrants and Refugees: Equitable Education for Displaced Populations

Research on the Influences of Educational Policy on Teaching and Learning

Struggling Readers Can Succeed: Targeted Solutions Based on Complex Views of Real Kids in Classrooms and Communities

Common Core and Teacher Professionalism: The Case of Cursive Instruction

Recent debates about the demise of cursive instruction demonstrate the disconnect between the educational policy and the profession of teaching.

Thinking With Theory in Qualitative Research: Viewing Data Across Multiple Perspectives

Face2Face: Using Facebook, Twitter, and Other Social Media Tools to Create Great Customer Connections

The New Inclusion: Differentiated Strategies to Engage ALL Students

Stopping the Brain Drain of Skilled Veteran Teachers: Retaining and Valuing their Hard-Won Experience

Multicultural Education for Learners with Special Needs in the Twenty-First Century

When Did Uncle Sam Become Ebenezer Scrooge? The U.S. Department of Education Opposed Bankruptcy Relief for a Quadriplegic Student-Loan Debtor

Recently, there have been signs that the bankruptcy courts are becoming more compassionate toward people who enter the bankruptcy process burdened by student loans. Perhaps the most dramatic of these recent cases is Myhre v. U.S. Department of Education, involving a quadriplegic man who filed for bankruptcy seeking to discharge $14,000 in student loans.

Common Core Standards in Diverse Classrooms: Essential Practices for Developing Academic Language and Disciplinary Literacy

The Student Loan Mess: How Good Intentions Created a Trillion-Dollar Problem

The Principal's Handbook for Leading Inclusive Schools

Studio Thinking 2: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education