Tag: inequalities

Election Series | Narratives of Schooling in the United States During and After COVID-19 by Beth Howd, Logan Rutten, and Jeremy Singer

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

The Classroom: It’s Where the Action Is, by Elizabeth Covay Minor, Laura Desimone, Kristie J. R. Phillips, and Kailey Spencer

We are currently in an era of intense focus on teacher evaluation, teacher accountability, and teacher value-added as means to reduce racial and socioeconomic status achievement gaps. Although the outcome of teacher effectiveness is important, we should also be emphasizing what is occurring in the classroom that theoretically leads to measures of effectiveness–teaching. In other