Recently added articles from The Educational Forum:
Education and the Crisis of Youth: Schooling and the Promise of Democracy
Jan 01, 2009; ... Abstract Public and higher education have fallen prey to forces of commercialization, privatization, and market considerations that undermine civic and critical learning while devaluing young people as a referent for a democratic and just future. This article criticizes this position and ...
Mapping Students' Lives: Children's Geographies, Teaching and Learning
Jan 01, 2009; ... Abstract The relatively new field of children's geographies builds on the theoretical foundations of human geography, critical geography, and spatial theories to examine the places and spaces children inhabit and create. This article reviews four major themes in children's geographies ...
Editorial Statement
Jan 01, 2009; ... Each of the authors in this inspiring issue of The Educational Forum calls for educators and young people to become critically engaged social agents in the endeavour for a fair and democratic future. Henry Giroux, an esteemed laureate of Kappa Delta Pi, writes on "Education and the Crisis of ...
The Quest for Instantaneous Perfection and the Demand for "Push-Button" Administration
Jan 01, 2009; ... Abstract Educational leaders in the United States are faced with a society seeking instantaneous perfection, immediate and perfect solutions. In education, this leads to a demand for push-button administration and an abandonment of trust in educators' judgment. As exemplified by the No ...
Political Economy and the NCLB Regime: Accountability, Standards, and High-Stakes Testing
Jan 01, 2009; ... Abstract Focus and institutional policy under the No Child Left Behind Act [NCLB] (U.S. Department of Education 2001) has prioritized the individualistic, market-driven agenda. The NCLB regime has gained hegemony over the political space of public education, and the value and ...
Shame Solutions: How Shame Impacts School-Aged Children and What Teachers Can Do to Help
Jan 01, 2009; ... Abstract Though many psychologists and researchers argue over the age at which humans first experience shame, all agree that by age two children have the capacity to be shamed (Lansky and Morrison 1997). School-aged children have invariably been exposed to shame at home and receive an ...
Understanding the Fourth-Grade Slump: Our Point of View
Jan 01, 2009; ... Abstract Educators know that an achievement gap exists between students of low-income and middle-income families, a gap that is especially evident in fourth grade and beyond. This essay explores issues related to this gap, including primary-level children being immersed in narrative text ...
Becoming a Reflective Practitioner in the Age of Accountability
Jan 01, 2009; ... Abstract Drawing on Zeichner's levels of reflection (Liston and Zeichner 1996), this study uses a fine-grain analysis of portfolio entries to describe the reflective practice of a cohort of preservice secondary education teachers as they student teach, participate in a student teaching ...
Successfully Implementing RTI
Jan 01, 2009; ... Successfully Implementing RTI Evidence-Based Reading Practices for Response to Intervention edited by Diane Haager, Janette Klingner, and Sharon Vaughn. Baltimore, MD: Brookes. © 2007. 336 pages. ISBN: 978-1-55766-828-8. Having collectively authored and edited dozens of books and ...
Voices From Atop the Ivory Tower
Jan 01, 2009; ... Voices From Atop the Ivory Tower Leaders in the Labyrinth: College Presidents and the Battleground of Creeds and Convictions by Stephen J. Nelson. Westport, CT: Praeger. 2007. 228 pages. ISBN: 978-0275997922. Stephen J. Nelson, an assistant professor of educational leadership at ...
Editorial Statement
Oct 01, 2008; ... Leadership can make a difference. As demographics change in towns and cities the world over, educational institutions face new challenges of linguistic, economic, cultural, and social diversity as well as the need to create local solutions for complex situations. Honoring diversity and upholding ...
Letter to the Editor
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract In the Summer 2007 issue of The Educational Forum, the Open Forum article "An Inconvenient Curriculum" by Marcus Ford and Peter Friederici magnificently focused on the nature of curriculum in higher education in an ever-changing environment in the present globalized world. By ...
Shared Leadership: Can It Work in Schools?
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract Over the past couple of decades, K-12 schools have courageously struggled with the concept of shared, or distributed, leadership; however, the basic landscape of K-12 school leadership remains heavily hierarchical. Nonetheless, teachers can share leadership. This article ...
Effective Internships: Building Bridges Between Theory and Practice
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract Growing criticism of existing educational leadership preparation programs seems to focus on a lack of contextual relevancy and instructional leadership. Universities and school districts need to develop more formal, collaborative, long-term relationships focused on the nature of ...
The Autistic Society and Its Classrooms
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract Autistic means a subject has limited affect or may be without affect altogether. Though traditionally individuals are described as autistic, the authors find it increasingly apparent that American society is becoming autistic as a whole, as citizens are desensitized to needs of ...
Leadership for Social Justice: An Agenda for 21st Century Schools
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract The shift in the demographic data highlights the growth in minority, second language learner, and economically disadvantaged student populations that traditionally have been underserved in public schools (Marshall and Oliva 2006). The purpose of this discussion is to explore the ...
Teacher Hiring Practices: Illinois Principals' Perspectives
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract A growing body of research has confirmed the link between excellent teachers and increased student achievement and school success. Consequently, selecting outstanding teachers is critical. This study examines Illinois principals' teacher hiring practices as well as their ...
Present at the Creation: Angelo Patri and Progressive Education
Oct 01, 2008; ... Present at the Creation: Angelo Patri and Progressive Education The Promise of Progressivism: Angelo Patri and Urban Education by James M. Wallace. New York: Peter Lang. © 2006. 264 pages. ISBN: 0-8204-7142-9. The legacy of good teaching is usually found in students, not in archives. For ...
Alternative Visions for Public Schools
Oct 01, 2008; ... Alternative Visions for Public Schools When School Reform Goes Wrong by Nel Noddings. New York, NY: Teachers College Press. © 2007. 112 pages. ISBN 978-0-8077-4810-7. In When School Reform Goes Wrong, Nel Noddings details what she feels are the most negative consequences of the No Child ...
Uncovering the Fragility of Academic Success
Oct 01, 2008; ... Uncovering the Fragility of Academic Success Is Literacy Enough? Pathways to Academic Success for Adolescents by Catherine Snow, Michelle V. Porche, Patron O. Tabors, and Stephanie Ross Harris. Baltimore, MD: Brookes. ©2007. 153 pages. ISBN: 978-1-55766-914-8. Sanford W. Reitman's 1992 ...