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Davis Guggenheim sure knows how to draw a crowd. He did this first with the environmental awareness documentary “The Inconvenient Truth” an...

For an update on our post below, check out the September 21st article in Education Week , entitled, “ Tucson Students Aren't Deterred b...

Since Time Immemorial: Tribal Sovereignty in Washington State Denny Hurtado Director, Indian Education Office of the Superintendent of Publi...

We just learned about an interesting curriculum that we wanted to bring to the attention of our readers. It was developed by the Tanenbaum C...

Editors: Today we welcome a post by guest blogger, Kay Ann Taylor. Our readers will remember the article that we published in our winter 20...

In our post below , we drew our readers’ attention to a group called, Focus on the Family, who is challenging public school anti-bullying po...

I am often amazed at the great divide between people when ideological positions become reified to the point that we are blind to the life ex...

Check out George Will's column in today's Washington Post : For black children, daunting divides in achievement and family life by G...

A community organizing group based in Mississippi, the Southern Echo, has compiled a list of studies on the charter school movement on their...

According to an Education Week article today, Arizona's Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Horne is moving ahead in his threat to...

JEC Editorial board member, John Purdy, has launched a new journal called Native Literatures: Generation . The mission of this new journal i...

Several times, we have referred our readers to a very helpful website called, American Indians in Children’s Literature . Just in time for t...

Editor: Today we welcome a post by guest blogger, Joel Shatzky. Dr. Shatzky is a contributor to the Huffington Post where readers can read h...

Below is a transcript of the speech by Diane Ravitch that was delivered before the 2010 Representative Assembly of the National Education As...

Our readers will remember the article, “ Ways of Seeing (and of Being Seen): Visibility in Schools ,” that Sam Chaltain wrote for our specia...

In an extraordinary letter to President Obama and Members of Congress, the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, a communit...

The meaning of Arizona HB 2281 that we posted below is perhaps best understood by analyzing it within the political and social context that ...

According to an Associated Press article of May 26 th , Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor argues that one of the unintended ...

We are seeking original articles on John Dewey for our upcoming issue of the Journal of Educational Controversy on "The Education our ...

In a post below, we described a visit to the Westside Village Magnet School in Bend, Oregon, one of the schools in the League of Democratic...

While much of the nation’s attention has been on Arizona’s law on illegal immigration and its implications for racial profiling, another bil...