In this piece, Megan Lynch, Ph.D. candidate, and teacher educator at Penn State, examines the different narratives of educators during the pandemic and problematizes how these narratives can sustain educational and societal inequalities. In early March, as schools began closing all over the U.S., social media became flooded with posts and memes speculating concerns, potentials,
Two Stories of International Study in the COVID-19 Pandemic Here two AJE Forum Student Board Members recount their experiences as international students in the COVID-19 pandemic. Tanjin Ashraf, a first year PhD student in Education at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, explains her return home to Toronto, Canada and the impact on her studies. Whereas
The Problem: A Disconnect between Research and Practice Despite the growing interest in getting educational leaders to use research in their decision-making, educational research often does not inform practice. Policymakers argue that research can support educational leaders in making more informed and effective decisions. In fact, policies like the Every Student Succeeds Act urge educational
Aggregate-party litigation, particularly the class action device, is a powerful and pervasive tool of social change. The class action is an “ingenious procedural innovation that enables persons who have suffered a wrongful injury…to obtain relief as a group” (Eubank v. Pella Corp., 7th Cir. 2014). There are few examples in the history of aggregate-party litigation
