School Data Scholar perspective By | Dara Marin Prais, PhD When you think of “data,” what comes to mind? For many people, if not most, initial thoughts lean toward quantitative or numerical values that can be statistically analyzed instead of qualitative or non-numerical data gathered from interviews, focus groups, observations, Read more…
Student Safety Scholar perspective By | Jon Wells Pragmatism, Community Inclusion, and School Safety Keeping schools safe only seems to get more complicated as our society evolves and changes its expectations of what schools provide for students. Safety and security scenarios require nuanced approaches, differing for large-scale threats like mass shootings Read more…
Housing and Education Scholar perspective By | Carrie Makarewicz, Marisa Westbrook, and Ryanne Ototivo Time is one of the most important resources we have. When families have nearby or accessible resources, they save time and money. Unfortunately, families in under-resourced neighborhoods experience the converse: long, expensive, tiresome, stressful, and even unsafe Read more…
Working Together To Make Change Scholar perspective By | Dane Stickney In reading the piece by Allan Tellis, DJEC’s Chier Writer, the following line stuck with me: “Students have a particularly good vantage point to assess what is going well within the educational system as well as what is not.” Read more…
Learning about “American” ideologies, values, and identities in public schools Scholar perspective By | Jarrod Hanson, PhD The connection between the educational system in the US and the idea of being or becoming an “American” is complex, and that is illustrated by Read more…
Setting new priorities for public education Scholar Perspective By | Danielle Walker Planting the Seeds of Liberation The global COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the very roots of the US educational system. US education at its roots is traditional, rigid, and quite frankly designed for White students. Therefore, this system has Read more…
Adjusting to new social and educational realitiesScholar PerspectiveBy | Willam Anderson The US experience with the COVID-19 pandemic (itself resulting in the loss of more than 210,000 lives) has come with a laundry list of other challenges: economic and employment catastrophe, social isolation, schools in disarray, and a restructuring of Read more…
Examining the politics of public education: ValuesScholar PerspectiveBy | Manuel Espinoza, PhD I have read closely the summary of community responses to the question: What values (interests) do you see reflected in public education in the area? I take no issue with the responses. I am content to let them Read more…
Community Vision for Education of ChildrenScholar PerspectiveBy | Amy Ferrell, PhD Education is the process of becoming ourselves. On this journey of becoming, individuals come into contact with the inner sacredness that affirms their supreme worth, doing so in community through the driving force of love (hooks, 2012; Vanier, 2008). Read more…
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