Schools across the country are grappling with vocal resistance to educational equity efforts, while disparities, including racial disproportionality in school discipline, persist. In this research-practice-partnership project, Adai A. Tefera, Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, Ashlee Sjogren, and David Naff learned of the ways educators and leaders across…

Recently, makerspaces have captured the imaginations of educators as resources for transforming school-based learning. Aligning informal making practices with the formal aims of the school curriculum, however, can present challenges. In this article, Philip Nichols and Kurt Salisbury show how educators in two very different contexts -- a suburban…

The author, a former school board member and currently head of nationwide parent organization, assesses the competition between charter and traditional public schools, concluding that the competition and acrimony among them does not help them deliver a better education. Policies should be focused on helping both types of schools improve education,…

No Child Left Behind has profoundly limited the teaching of history over the past 10 years. Now, the Common Core State Standards offers an opportunity to reverse this decline by giving history a more prominent place in the school curriculum alongside literacy goals. Learning history and argumentative writing is key to developing analytical ways of…

If our schools were a research project, we'd say that while some aspects of our schools are highly valid, our overall academic systems aren't reliable. If educators are to meet the challenge of leaving no child behind, schools will have to improve with much greater reliability. In the mid-1990s, a group of British secondary schools decided to work…

Interscholastic sports programs in the U.S. face increasing pressures from the pervasiveness of sport in American life. A combination of commercialism and professionalism has become a powerful force undermining the wholesome nature of amateur athletic programs in the local secondary schools of America. But the seductions of commercialism and…

A white teacher reports his teaching experience in an inner city school. (JF)

Examines sex discrimination in the curriculum, its administration, and in the rationale of certain courses and procedures, especially with regard to athletics and vocational preparation courses. (Author/DN)

In one year Malta High, in Northern Illinois, a school of approximately 125 students, expanded its course offerings from 51 to 153 -- and remained solvent. (Author)

The author of this article contends that current efforts at school reform--ostensibly designed to increase equality of outcomes--may actually be undermining democracy by undervaluing the wide range of talents required in 21st-century America. Many policy makers today argue that all students should have a standard curriculum that will prepare them…

A fictional account of a power-crazed computer that tries to fire the principal and other staff and take over a school. (JF)

A minute-by-minute account of one Friday in the work day of a principal who is a 40-year veteran of the Battle of Detroit. (EA)

Argues that if conformity is what culture demands, then schools that emphasize dull, fixed, ritualistic, and conformist behavior are functional. (Author)

Reporting a demonstration environmental education program in Corvallis, Oregon, schools. (Author)

Much career education material is now coming on the market. This is an early evaluation. Provides Title key words, grade levels, publishers, and descriptions. Ratings of teachers who would use the materials in classrooms. (Editor)