Review by Jesus Tirado, University of Georgia Book Details: Mission High: One School, How Experts Tried to Fail it, and the Students and Teachers who made it Triumph. by Kristina Rizga. New York: Nation Books. 2016. 295 pp., $26.99. Kristina Rizga’s (2015) Mission High presents a deep look at a school and the people who breathe vitality
Review by Bryan Mann, PhD Candidate, Educational Theory and Policy, Pennsylvania State University Book Details: The Prize—Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools? by Dale Russakoff. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. 246 pp., $27.00. The Prize, a well-crafted piece of journalism with particular relevance to educational policy scholars, chronicles an urban reform initiative in which
Review by Carrie S. Larson, doctoral student, Educational Leadership and Curriculum and Instruction, Portland State University Book Details: Race, Empire, and English Language Teaching: Creating Responsible and Ethical Anti-Racist Practice by Suhanthie Motha. New York: Teachers College Press, 2014. 113 pp., $39.95. Suhanthie Motha’s book Race, Empire, and English Language Teaching: Creating Responsible and Ethical Anti-Racist
This month, AJE released a special issue on the Practice of Data Use, guest edited by Cynthia Coburn and Andrea Bueschel. In the issue, senior advisor to the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research and the Chicago Public Schools, Paul Goren, contributed his thoughts in a piece entitled Data, Data, and More Data—What’s an
