Theoretically framed by AsianCrit, the current study used a longitudinal qualitative study to explore how larger socio-historical contexts such as the pandemic shape Asian American and migrant elementary teachers' daily lives and teaching practices. The study's findings demonstrate that, following the COVID-19 pandemic and an upsurge in anti-Asian…

Background: New York City is one of the most segregated school districts in the country, but between 2012 and 2021, school integration moved from a marginal to a central education policy. Existing narratives have emphasized the efforts of parents and school and political leaders, with less attention given to the significance of citywide coalitions…

Teaching gerrymandering in our high school geometry classrooms provides students with a unique opportunity to use mathematics to describe, analyze and make sense of the world around them. Our purpose is to provide our students the opportunity to apply learned definitions and formulas of area and perimeter to a sociopolitical context. We present a…

Contributing to the literature on the institutional experiences of undocumented youth, this article by Holly E. Reed, Sofya Aptekar, and Amy Hsin explores undocumented and "DACAmented" students' experiences managing their illegality on campus and how college staff and faculty manage that illegality while organizing programs and support.…

This article critically assesses the works of Paul Monroe, Isaac L. Kandel, and the International Institute at the Teachers College, Columbia University, in the early twentieth century. Drawing on Edward Said's notion of contrapuntal reading, it presents a different account of their legacies that foregrounds the colonial and imperial realities of…

The immigrant political incorporation scholarship tends to stress the positive role that schools play in integrating undocumented Latinx youth. Yet, the racialization in school literature indicates that school is often a disempowering place for students of color. This study helps to explain this divergence. It draws from a case study of a…

The current political climate has created urgency around civic education. The authors argue that educators can best seize the moment by infusing authentic activities and experiences in content studies. They provide an example of one such hybrid instructional model from Democracy Prep Public Schools.

The ECE workforce experiences high levels of stress, partly because they have low incomes and limited access to professional and personal supports for their own well-being. In addition, the ECE workforce experiences sociopolitical stressors (i.e., stressors that arise from political legislation or from political leaders' threatening rhetoric).…

This article presents a set of spatial tools for classroom learning about spatial justice. As part of a larger team, we designed a curriculum that engaged 10 learners with 3 spatial tools: (a) an oversized floor map, (b) interactive geographic information systems (GIS) maps, and (c) participatory mapping. We analyze how these tools supported…

This article interrogates the politics of representation, expectation, and responsibility at the new National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) in Washington, DC. The authors explore the interpretive contests (between and among Natives and non-Natives) provoked by the museum's representational strategies. They think that NMAI has positioned…

The data for the years 1969-1972 clearly support the ethnic succession-decentralization hypothesis. The new ethnic groups in New York City, the blacks, and Hispanics are achieving greater success in penetrating the school bureaucracy in the decentralized than in the centralized districts. (Author)

Concludes that those who plan to emigrate from Colombia need orientation and some manner of regularizing their status by work contracts or other legal arrangements. This will assure them just wages and relieve many of the necessity to migrate without proper documents. (Author/AM)

Notes that the objective of this urban education community involvement program is not met, but the objective of hiring minority members as paraprofessionals and professionals is met. The question is raised as to whether this is a means of heading off community involvement, district control, and/or local control. (Author/AM)