Journal of Educational Controversy Blog

For those of you in the Washington State area, we invite you to join us at a workshop called, "Civil Rights in Schools 101." It wi...

The Woodring College of Education at Western Washington University will sponsor the 13th Annual Educational Law and Social Justice Forum a...

We have posted several items on the problem of bullying and harassment below.   Recently, KIRO TV 7 in Washington showed an interesting prog...

One of the great things about living in Washington is that we have license to be incredibly snotty about all things California. Their earthq...

The Journal of Educational Controversy announces its call for papers for Volume 7 Number 1. THEME: The School-to-Prison Pipeline CONTR...

Along with whatever surprises the latest election may have brought, it did reaffirm the age-old verity that Money Talks. Various corporatio...

Editor: Because our journal and blog are published out of Washington state, we get a lot of inquiries about the politics of Washington state...

As many of our readers already know, the Educational Institute for Democratic Renewal at the Woodring College of Education at Western Washi...

Diane Ravitch, author of The Death and Life of the Great American School System ," appeared on the Jon Stewart show on March 3rd.   You...

Editor:   I once had a colleague who likened his life as a teacher to a person whom one meets at a fork in the road who provides guidance as...

The Forum for Education and Democracy  has set out to distinguish between the myths and the facts around the turmoil in Wisconsin as thousan...

Our journal's consulting editor, A.G. Rud, Dean of the College of Education at Washington State University, has produced a short YouTube...

Today marks our 100th post to this blog.  We have added the Google Translator to the blog today to assist our ever-growing global readership...

We have printed several posts on the direction of President Obama’s educational reform on this blog. ( See all ) Today we are reprinting wi...

We have posted several posts on the achievement gap in the past along with critiques on the simplistic solutions often offered  --- close do...

This blog has tried to follow some of the grassroots movements in this country as a balance to the official messages coming from Secretary D...

Our readers are probably familiar with the current controversy over removing certain offensive words from Mark Twain's classics, The Adv...

I received an e-mail recently from an Andrew Schwartz who thought our readers might be interested in a project that he and others have start...

Welcome back to our blog in 2011! I’d like to start off the new year with a personal thank you and a special farewell to Dean Stephanie Salz...

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...