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March 05, 2019

Immigrant-Origin Students in Community College: How Do They Use Their Time on Campus?

Immigrant-origin students are the fastest growing new population in community colleges, yet little is known about how they make use of their campus spaces. Through a mixed-methods strategy, this study sought out to understand in what ways and to what degree immigrant-origin students in community college use their time on campus.


What Works: Learning Outcomes Due to Design Variations in Community College Student Success Courses

Moving beyond prevalent approaches to intervention impact research, this national study of 47 student success courses investigates not just whether they are effective, but also which features are associated with learning objectives of student success skills, college knowledge, and engagement.


March 01, 2019






Pathways to Working Alliances: Special Educators’ Emotional Labor and Relationships With Students With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

This study investigates how special education teachers’ emotional labor (i.e., their deliberate suppression or expression of emotions to achieve goals) explains variation in their working alliances with students. Participants were 61 teachers and 243 students. We tested a mediational, two-level path model including the two types of emotional display rules, two types of emotional acting, and three components of working alliance, and found partial support for this mediational relationship.


W. E. B. Du Bois’s Concept of Sympathetic Touch as a Mediator of Teachers’ Expectations in an Urban School District

Inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois’s (1935) concept of sympathetic touch, the purpose of this article is to introduce an asset-based instructional practice of sympathy as a method to confront the systemic problems of pity and deficit thinking that result in low teachers’ expectations of students.


How Do Effective Upper Elementary Teachers of English Language Learners Show Support?

The present study examines specifically how teachers in high-gains classrooms with many ELLs demonstrate support to their students, as compared to teachers in high-gains classrooms with no ELLs and teachers in low-gains classrooms with many ELLs.


February 28, 2019

Reconceptualizing Risk and High School Noncompletion: The Case of Latina/o Ninth-Grade Leavers in an Urban School

Drawing on interviews with 25 Latina/o ninth-grade leavers and school policy documents, this article examines how uncertainties about high school completion arise and are negotiated in the school context in ways that contribute to risks for school-leaving. The article employs a theoretical framework that considers both objective and socially constructed dimensions of risk.


February 26, 2019

Considering Core Assumptions About What it Means to Teach

This commentary distinguishes among a technical approach, an inquiry approach, and a relational approach to learning to teach.


Does Teacher Education Matter?

This commentary takes up the question, "Does teacher education matter?" and points to the necessity of centering sociocultural considerations when doing teacher education, equitably and in a just way.


Moving Beyond Asset, Equity and Justice Oriented Teacher Education

This commentary argues that teacher educators must go beyond talking about social justice and model the decolonial pedagogies that they advocate for teacher candidates.


Rupturing White Innocence in Teacher Education: Designing Teacher Education as a Proleptic Activity Through Social Design Experiments

This commentary on the special issue considers the urgency of countering prevailing ideologies and practices that sustain oppressive education.


Understanding Practice and Intersectionality in Teacher Education in the Age of Diversity and Inequality

The commentary highlights the main ideas of the special issue and outlines the potential contributions of intersectionality to the study of practices in teacher education.


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