Journal of Educational Controversy Blog

The focus of our Winter 2008 issue of the Journal of Educational Controversy was on the topic, “ Schooling as if Democracy Matters .” In tha...

We have added a new article to our rejoinder section of the Journal of Educational Controversy . In the first issue of our journal, we focus...

Historians speak out against proposed Texas textbook changes By Michael Birnbaum Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, March 18, 2010 Hist...

Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. New York Times Published: March 12, 2010 AUSTIN, Tex. — After three days ...

We announced below a lively debate taking place in our Rejoinder Section of the journal on the appropriateness of "crisis language...

The Washington State Legislature has passed two bills that will be of interest to readers concerned with the rights and protections of our s...

In our winter 2009 issue of the Journal of Educational Controversy , we published an article by C.A. Bowers entitled, Rethinking Social Just...

The Journal of Educational Controversy announces a new "Call for Papers" for Volume 6 Number 1, Summer 2011. THEME: THE EDUCATION ...

One of the purposes of our blog and our journal is to provide a forum for a rigorous debate that represents all voices. Here is a link that ...

Teri McMurtry-Chubb, a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Educational Controversy , has published an article in a recent law re...

Author David Hansen, whose article, A Response to a New Book about Maxine Greene’s Philosophy , appears in our current issue of journal, wri...

The Journal of Educational Controversy is pleased to announce that the winter 2010 issue on “Art, Social Imagination and Democratic Educatio...

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...