Journal of Educational Controversy Blog

One of the purposes of this blog is to promote serious discussion between educational professionals and the general public. In reading much ...

Our colleague David Marshak has just published this provocative piece for the August 3rd issue of Education Week and has permitted us to rep...

Having just posted (below) Nino's song honoring the death of Agustin Gudinon, the farmworker who died of a heat stroke in the fields, we...

Editor: Nandini Gunewardena, author of " Pathologizing Poverty: Structural Forces versus Personal Deficit Theories in the Feminization ...

The Journal of Educational Controversy is in the process of building a pool of reviewers to assist in evaluating future manuscripts. If you...

The U.S. Supreme Court decision on the student strip search case was announced today. The ACLU , who represented April Redding, the mother o...

Talk is one thing; action is another. We hope to engage in both. We believe that action without reflective talk is mindless and talk without...

We have four new YouTube shorts from our April 30, 2008 Educational Law and Social Justice Forum, "Schooling as if Democracy Matters....

Now that we're already over a week into the month of May we thought it would be nice time to remind everyone that the deadline for our m...

We have posted our second teaser interview from our "Talking With the Authors" series on YouTube. In it, ACLU staff attorney A...

In the interests of getting these educational issues to the largest audience possible, we have begun posting excerpts from our "Talking...

This morning, I came across what looks like an interesting and informative blog called: " American Indians in Children's Literature...

Bill Lyne, author of the controversial (naturally) article " Beautiful Losers " in our 2008 issue on "Schooling as if Democra...

(Cross-posted on the Social Issues blog ) The progressive language implicit in many of President Obama's programs was no where to be ...

With our winter 2009 issue on " The Hidden Dimensions of Poverty: Rethinking Poverty and Education " now being read and discussed ...

At the Journal, we have long been concerned with the effects of race and poverty on NCLB test scores. Our current issue addresses this them...

In our winter 2008 issue on Schooling as if Democracy Matters , we published an article on the curriculum developed at Teachers College, Co...

The Journal of Educational Controversy is proud to announce that our Winter 2009 issue, " The Hidden Dimensions of Poverty: Rethinking...

From the Bellingham Herald http://www.bellinghamherald.com/291/story/786150.html Print version - Sunday, February 8, 2009 Feb, 7, 2009 (Cros...

In our winter 2007 issue, the Journal of Educational Controversy had a special section on Washington state politics. Among other articles, ...

Editor: In our winter 2008 issue on "Schooling as if Democracy Matters," we published a review of Kenneth Saltman's book, Cap...

Editor: Authors Margaret Smith Crocco and Maureen Grolnick, whose article, Teaching the Levees: an Exercise in Democratic Dialogue , appears...

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