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June 06, 2019






June 03, 2019

Jackson v. McCurry: School Officials Remove a Father From a School Gym Where He had Been Watching His Daughter Play Volleyball

In Jackson v. McCurry, escalating tensions between a student’s father and school officials led to a federal lawsuit.


Tending to the "Deep Rules" of Teacher Collaboration

In this commentary, authors argue that the “deep rules” that exist around how teachers accrue status and use that status to wield power and influence, also exist in teacher collaborative groups and can greatly impact the extent to which those groups can be productive.


May 31, 2019

Finding Common Ground Through JPA

This commentary features an extraordinary example of a teacher team that overcame significant obstacles with complex group dynamics, diverse curriculum responsibilities, and a history of ineffective meetings.


May 30, 2019






May 24, 2019



Beyond Posters and Pennants: College-Going Messaging at Three Racially and Economically Diverse Public Schools

This three-year, multi-site case study examined the college-going messaging at three racially and economically diverse public high schools in different regions of Texas. Findings suggest the need to: reconsider what a strong college-going culture entails, re-envision college-going cultures as dynamic, multi-layered, and responsive, reframe postsecondary opportunities so they are more expansive and varied, and re-evaluate inequities in college-going messaging and academic rigor.




Lateral Reading and the Nature of Expertise: Reading Less and Learning More When Evaluating Digital Information

This study compares how professional fact checkers, historians, and first year college students evaluated online information and presents the strategies fact checkers used to efficiently and effectively find trustworthy information.



Mapping Curricular Assemblages

This article provides an analysis of the dominant narratives of educational history in which curriculum has been constructed as a reductionist, linear input-output closed system of knowledge production. Drawing on Deleuze and Guatarri’s concept of assemblage the authors engage the new materialism to revision curriculum as an ontological endeavor of being~becoming.


May 22, 2019

Peltier v. Charter Day School: A Charter School’s Regulation Requiring Female Students to Wear Skirts is Ruled Unconstitutional

A federal judge ruled that a charter school's regulation requiring female students to wear skirts violates the Equal Protection Clause.


Towards a Theory of Schooling as Infrastructure

This commentary proposes a theoretical framework that focuses on how people make sense of the objective conditions that mediate their subjective reality as they traverse through the uneven thicket of time and space.


May 17, 2019



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