This is the second contribution in the AJE Forum Election Issues series. Together, these pieces will introduce and analyze relevant issues in education policy and politics that will shape the 2020 Presidential election including the politics of school choice, Black Lives Matter and social justice, reopening schools during a pandemic, prioritizing funding for students with
Full-length article “Institutional Logics in Los Angeles Schools: Do Multiple Models Disrupt the Grammar of Schooling?” by Marsh, Allbright, Bulkley, Kennedy, and Dhaliwal published by the American Journal of Education available here. In 1994, David Tyack and William Tobin observed how difficult it is to disrupt the “grammar” of schooling. Yet the structure of U.S. public education is changing.
Full-length article “Overlapping Opportunities for Social-Emotional and Literacy Learning in Elementary-Grade Project-Based Instruction” by Fitzgerald published by the American Journal of Education available here. On a bright April afternoon, a third-grade teacher and her students walked to an open area on their school campus to play a “bird migration” game, in which the students, taking on the role
Full-length article “Rethinking the Grammar of Student-Teacher Relationships” by Greene Nolan published by the American Journal of Education available here. When many of us think back on our educational experiences, what stands out so many years later is often the memory of a special relationship we had with “that one teacher.” It might have been a teacher who
This is the first contribution in the AJE Forum Election Issues series. Together, these pieces will introduce and analyze relevant issues in education policy and politics that will shape the 2020 Presidential election including the politics of school choice, Black Lives Matter and social justice, reopening schools during a pandemic, prioritizing funding for students with
