Journal of Educational Controversy Blog

As the year comes to an end, we at the Journal of Educational Controversy are busy getting ready for our exciting and important issue on ...

Although the DREAM Act was not passed by the current Congress, it will undoubtedly come up again for consideration. At its recent convention...

The problems of bullying, harassment, and the "school to prison pipeline" are some of the tragic incidents that plague our young p...

Many of our readers will be interested in a new curriculum produced at Teachers College, Columbia University called, “Let Freedom Swing: Con...

In our winter 2010 issue of the journal dedicated to the life and work of Maxine Greene, we announced that a new book was about to be publ...

Readers will remember the article by author Sam Chaltain in our winter 2008 issue of the journal, entitled, " Ways of Seeing (and of Be...

The Journal of Educational Controversy is pleased to announce that the Summer 2010 issue titled, “ The Professions and Scholarly Communities...

To see the latest from Arizona go to: Teachers Set To Sue Over Arizona's Ethnic Studies Ban

Norm's Notes: A teacher pushed to the edge See also: Teacher’s Death Exposes Tensions in Los Angeles N.Y.Times , November 9, 2010

Readers will find the interview with Bill Ayers from Truthout.org an interesting departure from the mainsteam media's superficial cover...

Since we posted an outline of Washington State’s new Tribal Sovereignty Curriculum on this blog, we have received many e-mails for more inf...

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...