Month: August 2022

AJE Feature | Belonging and Not Belonging: The Case of Newcomers in Diverse U.S. Schools by S. Garnett Russell and Paula Mantilla-Blanco.

The full-length American Journal of Education article by Garnett Russell & Mantilla-Blanco can be accessed here. With the highest levels of forced migration on record, reaching 100 million people in May of 2022 according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), understanding how newcomers are incorporated into society and how they perceive this experience is
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AJE Feature | Strategic Giving and the Common Core – Uncovering the Common Purposes of Foundations Supporting the CCSS by Nikolaus J. Barkauskas.

The full-length American Journal of Education article by Nik Barkauskas can be accessed here. In the beginning, the Common Core State Standards just looked like a set of national educational standards designed to boost student achievement on a national level by helping to define common academic targets for assessment.  However, the calls to adopt mere standards quickly
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