Full-length article “Salir Adelante: Collaboratively Developing Culturally Grounded Curriculum with Marginalized Communities” by Levitan and Johnson published by the American Journal of Education available here. The Need for Culturally-Grounded Curriculum Asset-based, identity- and culturally-reflective education practices, such as curricula that build from students’ identities and cultural backgrounds, increases students’ engagement (Ladson-Billings 1992), improves their success (Howard and
Full length article “The Organizational Landscape of Schools: School Employees’ Conceptualizations of Organizations in Their Environment” by Prado Tuma published by the American Journal of Education available here. Education policy and funding increasingly attempt to foster the creation of school–community partnerships as a way to provide enrichment programs for students, offer services for families, and
Four hundred years ago last August, the first ship bringing enslaved African people landed on the shores of the colony of Virginia. It was a critical juncture in the historical timeline of the land that was to become the United States of America (Hannah-Jones, 2019). For four centuries, slavery has been part of the dark
Educational policymakers, teachers, administrators, and, often times, parents overlook the educational significance of the lunch hour. For policymakers and administrators, the lunch hour is a necessary break for students to refuel their brains vis a vis putting food into their bodies. For some parents, the lunch hour is the source of countless hours spent putting
With the rise in availability of online school rankings, parents and guardians have access to a wealth of school performance information that they can use to learn about their local schools and to make informed decisions on enrollment. Two such ranking systems are the U.S. News and World Report and Niche. These ranking systems offer
This manuscript builds on the arguments presented in the May and June 2019 Declining Enrollments in Teacher Education Programs series (Rutten, Cunningham, & Woo, 2019) published in the AJE Forum. While Logan Rutten, Azaria Cunningham, and Hansol Woo have each contributed important remarks on reasons for and solutions to the declining enrollments, we, as the
