social issues

I recently read a New York Times magazine article called “Building a Better Teacher” by Elizabeth Green. It was informative in its way, but...

(cross-posted from the Journal of Educational Controversy blog ) The focus of our Winter 2008 issue of the Journal of Educational Controvers...

A few days ago, a friend of mine sent me a link to a educational web based "computer game" called Urgent: Evoke . The game is prod...

In the Chicago Public Schools, since 1988, school principals have been hired (for five year contracts) and fired by the Local School Counci...

My kindergarten daughter recently brought home her mid-year report card. Parts were easy to read – e.g. that she’s only “partially develope...

The Journal of Educational Controversy is pleased to announce that the winter 2010 issue on “Arts, Social Imagination and Democratic Educati...

The Open Aceess Education movement is growing. Curricki , the open access curriculum wiki, now has over 80,000 curriculum units. (Hint to De...

[Cross-posted from Education Policy Blog .] In December of 2008, President-Elect Barack Obama nominated Arne Duncan, the Chief Executive Off...

Cross-posted from "Smart and Good" : I have long thought that the very best gifts are not those that are most expensive or exclusi...

Peter Levine, a philosopher and researcher on civic engagement (he directs CIRCLE at Tufts), put up an interesting post today discussing th...