Journal of Educational Controversy Blog

Editor: Both C.A. Bowers and Bill Ayers have written articles for the Journal of Educational Controversy in the past. Among other things, th...

Welcome back to our blog for 2010. We thought we would start out the new year by introducing our readers to educational controversies from o...

One of our authors in our current issue on " The Hidden Dimensions of Poverty: Rethinking Poverty and Education " has announced hi...

Diane Ravitch, who was once the great advocate for test-based accountability and other reforms so favored by our current Secretary of Educat...

Our readers may want to check out a new website called, Teaching a Peoples History -- the Zinn Education Project . It is a collaborative eff...

I have been following a very informative blog that would be helpful for teachers who are trying to understand the rich cultural lives of an ...

Here is a link to some follow-up information from the media to our new You Tube posting below on the “School to Prison Pipeline.” http://www...

In the excerpt below, ACLU staff attorney Rose Spidell discusses "The School to Prison Pipeline." This term describes a disturbing...

Education Policy Blog: Creating a Democratic Learning Community Check out the link above from the Education Policy Blog for more on Sam Chal...

Many of our readers will remember Sam Chaltain’s article, “ Ways of Seeing (and of Being Seen): Visibility in Schools ,” that we published i...

In our first issue of the journal, Nadine Strossen, the former president of the American Civil Liberties Union shared the following concern ...

In an effort to keep readers of the Journal of Educational Controversy informed on the widening conversation about education across the nat...

The current issue of Paideusis . an International Journal in Philosophy of Education, published by the Canadian Philosophy of Education Soc...

Author Alfie Kohn will speak on the topic, "Schools Our Children Deserve," on Friday, October 9th at 7pm at the Syre Auditorium, W...

Editor: The next issue of our journal will be on the theme of "Art, Social Imagination and Democratic Education" and will appea...

For our readers who would like to continue their understanding of issues on poverty and education that was the focus of our Winter 2009 issu...

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...