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From Talking about to Talking with: Integrating Native Youth Voices into Teacher Education via a Repositioning Pedagogy Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 ROBERT PETRONE, NICHOLAS RINK, CHARLIE SPEICHER
In this article, Robert Petrone and Nicholas Rink propose a repositioning pedagogy framework for teacher education. They maintain that a repositioning pedagogy disrupts power dynamics by bringing s...
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A Call for Intersectionality in US Schooling: Testimonios of Chicana Students in High School Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 NANCY ACEVEDO, CITLALLI BEJARANO, NATALIE IBARRA COLLAZO
Guided by the concept of nepantleras and critical race nepantlera methodology, Nancy Acevedo presents the testimonios of Citlalli Bejarano and Natalie Ibarra Collazo, two Chicana students who atten...
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Amplifying Action: Theories, Questions, Doubts, and Hopes Related to the “Action” Phase of a Critical Participatory Action Research Process Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 SARAH ZELLER-BERKMAN, JESSICA BARRETO, ASHA SANDLER
In this essay, authors Sarah Zeller-Berkman, Jessica Barreto, and Asha Sandler, members of an intergenerational research team, explore findings from a critical participatory action research (CPAR) ...
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The EVAC Movement Story: Why Youth Storytelling Is Powerful . . . and Why It’s Dangerous Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 ALAN McCULLOUGH, FELTON MORRELL, BERNARD THOMAS, VINCENTE WAUGH, NICHOLAS SHUBERT, AMY DONOFRIO
In this reflective essay, Alan McCullough Jr., Felton Morrell Jr., Bernard Thomas III, Vincente Waugh, and Nicholas Shubert with their teacher, Amy Donofrio, share the youth self-authorship methods...
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Quantitative Medicine and Reflection on Summer Research in Mathematical Biology Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 MINGDA SUN, SHERLI KOSHY-CHENTHITTAYIL, NIKEETHA FARFAN D’SOUZA
In this essay, Mingda Sun, a high school student from Connecticut, recounts her summer research internship opportunity at the Center for Quantitative Medicine of UConn Health. She discusses her lea...
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“Our Stories Are Powerful”: The Use of Youth Storytelling in Policy Advocacy to Combat the School-to-Prison Pipeline Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 JEFFREY S. MOYER, MARK R. WARREN, ANDREW R. KING
The use of narratives and storytelling has become an increasingly common strategy in grassroots organizing and advocacy efforts to influence policy change. Drawing on qualitative interviews and obs...
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“I Hesitate but I Do Have Hope”: Youth Speculative Civic Literacies for Troubled Times Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 NICOLE MIRRA, ANTERO GARCIA
In this essay, Nicole Mirra and Antero Garcia explore how young people from six demographically distinct communities across the United States understand the social and political issues affecting th...
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State Takeover: Managing Emotions, Policy Implementation, and the Support/Sanction Duality in the Holyoke Public Schools Receivership Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 SIMONE A. FRIED
In this portrait, Simone A. Fried investigates the first six months of a state education department's takeover of a public school district. Using interviews, observations, and artifact analysis, th...
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Transitions: Researchers' Positionality and Malleability of Site and Self over Time Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 SARAH DRYDEN-PETERSON
In this research article, Sarah Dryden-Peterson explores the concept of researcher positionality, focusing on its malleability over time. The methodological analysis is situated in an empirical stu...
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After Words: Negotiating Participant and Portraitist Response in the Study “Aftermath” Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 PEI PEI LIU
In this essay, Pei Pei Liu identifies the act of unveiling a completed portrait to solicit participant response as central to the conceptualization of portraiture. While this explicit extension of ...
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Tools to Build Their Best Learning: Examining How Kindergarten Teachers Frame Student Mistakes Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 MALEKA DONALDSON
In this portrait, Maleka Donaldson vividly illustrates how two teachers in real-world, public school settings convey their expectations for kindergarten student performance and set the tone for lea...
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Bridging the Public and Private in the Study of Teaching: Revisiting the Research Argument Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 RACHEL E. SCHACHTER, DONALD FREEMAN
In this essay, Rachel Schachter and Donald Freeman present the familiar problem in studying and improving teaching: how to connect what teachers know and think with what they do as they teach. They...
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Racial Differences in Special Education Identification and Placement: Evidence Across Three States Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 TODD GRINDAL, LAURA A. SCHIFTER, GABRIEL SCHWARTZ, THOMAS HEHIR
In this article, Todd Grindal, Laura Schifter, Gabriel Schwartz, and Thomas Hehir examine race/ethnicity differences in students' special education identification and subsequent placement in segreg...
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Stratified Lives: Family, Illegality, and the Rise of a New Educational Elite Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 LEAH SCHMALZBAUER, ALELÍ ANDRÉS
In this research article, Leah Schmalzbauer and Aleli Andres examine the educational mobility of low-income US citizen and DACAmented youth who are members of mixedstatus families. Drawing from thi...
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Beyond “Active Learning”: How the ICAP Framework Permits More Acute Examination of the Popular Peer Instruction Pedagogy Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 J. BRYAN HENDERSON
Peer Instruction, a pedagogy utilizing handheld classroom response technology to promote student discussion, is one of the most popular research-based instructional practices in STEM education. Yet...
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The Emerging Promise of Restorative Practices to Reduce Discipline Disparities Affecting Youth with Disabilities and Youth of Color: Addressing Access and Equity Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 COLBY T. KERVICK, MIKA MOORE, TRACY ARÁMBULA BALLYSINGH, BERNICE RAVECHE GARNETT, LANCE C. SMITH
In this article, Kervick and colleagues posit that restorative practices (RP) implementation promises to mitigate educational inequities resulting from discipline disparities for youth with disabil...
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“Asians Are Good at Math” Is Not a Compliment: STEM Success as a Threat to Personhood Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 NIRAL SHAH
In this conceptual article, Niral Shah critically analyzes how the narrative that “Asians are good at math” positions Asian people as racial subjects. Despite being false, the “Asians are good at m...
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CS4Some? Differences in Technology Learning Readiness Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 CASSIDY PUCKETT
This article investigates the extent to which teens are ready to take advantage of the Computer Science for All (CS4All) initiative promoted in 2016 by the Obama administration. Using new survey da...
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“Con Mucho Sacrificio, We Give Them Everything We Can”: The Strategic Day-to-Day Sacrifices of Undocumented Latina/o Parents Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 STEPHANY CUEVAS
In this research article, Stephany Cuevas explores how undocumented Latina/o parents are engaged in their children's higher education goals and aspirations. Specifically, she investigates how the c...
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“A Positive, Safe Environment”: Urban Arts High Schools and the Safety Mystique Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 RUBÉN A. GAZTAMBIDE-FERNÁNDEZ, DOMINIQUE RIVIÈRE
In this research article, Ruben A. Gaztambide-Fernandez and Dominique Riviere examine the discursive frames that students and teachers in four specialized arts high schools in Toronto used in descr...
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Money over Merit? Socioeconomic Gaps in Receipt of Gifted Services Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 JASON A. GRISSOM, CHRISTOPHER REDDING, JOSHUA F. BLEIBERG
In this essay, Jason A. Grissom, Christopher Redding, and Joshua F. Bleiberg investigate the receipt of gifted services based on the socioeconomic status (SES) of elementary school students and the...
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Navigating Two Worlds: Exploring Home-School Dissonance in the College-Going Process of Immigrant Families Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 CHRYSTAL A. GEORGE MWANGI
This article examines how sub-Saharan African families in the United States engage with high schools and the college-going process. Using qualitative methods and the concept of home-school dissonan...
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Educators' Secondary Traumatic Stress, Children's Trauma, and the Need for Trauma Literacy Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 HAL A. LAWSON, JAMES C. CARINGI, RUTH GOTTFRIED, BRIAN E. BRIDE, STEPHEN P. HYDON
In this essay, authors Lawson, Caringi, Gottfried, Bride, and Hydon introduce the concept of trauma literacy, connecting it to students' trauma and educators' secondary traumatic stress (STS). Inte...
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Imagining the Comprehensive Mattering of Black Boys and Young Men in Society and Schools: Toward a New Approach Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 RODERICK L. CAREY
In this essay, Roderick L. Carey draws from social-psychological perspectives on mattering to argue that Black boys and young men have yet to achieve comprehensive mattering in social and education...
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From Protest to Protection: Navigating Politics with Immigrant Students in Uncertain Times Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2019-06-01 REVA JAFFE-WALTER, CHANDLER PATTON MIRANDA, STACEY J. LEE
With the rise of nationalism and the current contentious debate on immigration in the US, school leaders and educators are faced with difficult questions about how to negotiate sensitive political ...
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Asian Americans, Affirmative Action, and the Political Economy of Racism: A Multidimensional Model of Raceclass Frames Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2019-06-01 OIYAN A. POON, MEGAN S. SEGOSHI, LILIANNE TANG, KRISTEN L. SURLA, CARESSA NGUYEN, DIAN D. SQUIRE
Utilizing a critical raceclass theory of education, OiYan A. Poon and colleagues analyze interviews with Asian Americans who have publicly advocated for or against affirmative action and acknowledg...
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A Politics of Redaction and Racial Justice in Digital Education Reform Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2019-06-01 ETHAN CHANG
In this comparative ethnographic case study, Ethan Chang examines the politics of digital education reform. Drawing on new institutional theory and boundary work, he investigates how two digital te...
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Endless Mourning: Racial Melancholia, Black Grief, and the Transformative Possibilities for Racial Justice in Education Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2019-06-01 JUSTIN GRINAGE
In this article, Justin Grinage investigates how black youth experience and contest racial trauma using racial melancholia, a psychoanalytic conception of grief, as a framework for understanding th...
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“Los Músicos”: Mexican Corridos, the Aural Border, and the Evocative Musical Renderings of Transnational Youth Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2019-06-01 CATI V. de los RÍOS
In this research article, Cati V. de los Rios examines US-Mexican transnational youths' engagement with the Mexican musical genre corridos, border folk ballads, and its subgenre, narcocorridos, fol...
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Reconsidering Organizational Habitus in Schools: One Neighborhood, Two Distinct Approaches to Advanced Placement Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 SUNEAL KOLLURI
Rigorous learning opportunities at high schools in low-income neighborhoods are limited and ineffective, and in these settings the Advanced Placement (AP) program has mostly eluded successful imple...
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In-State Resident Tuition Policies and the Self-Rated Health of High-School-Aged and College-Aged Mexican Noncitizen Immigrants, Their Families, and the Latina/o Community Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 STEPHANIE POTOCHNICK, SARAH F. MAY, LISA Y. FLORES
Research on state-level immigration policies and health in the United States is limited. In this article Stephanie Potochnick, Sarah May, and Lisa Flores address the gap in research on state-level immigration policies and health in the US by examining the health implications of in-state resident tuition (IRT) policies and their effects. As one of the largest inclusive state efforts, IRT policies reduce
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The Practice of Listening to Children: The Challenges of Hearing Children Out in an Adult-Regulated World Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 HAENY S. YOON, TRAN NGUYEN TEMPLETON
In this research article, Haeny Yoon and Tran Nguyen Templeton explore the challenges of listening to children in both classrooms and research that purports to center young children. Through two st...
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Navigating Campus Controversies: Seeking Truth, Respecting Speech, and Cultivating Intellectual Fairness in Higher Education Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 REBECCA M. TAYLOR, ASHLEY FLOYD KUNTZ
In this essay, Rebecca M. Taylor and Ashley Floyd Kuntz explore the higher education aims of advancing truth, respecting speech, and fostering inclusive learning environments in the context of cont...
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Normalizing Black Girls' Humanity in Mathematics Classrooms Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 NICOLE M. JOSEPH, MESERET F. HAILU, JAMAAL SHARIF MATTHEWS
In this article, Nicole Joseph, Meseret Hailu, and Jamaal Matthews argue that Black girls' oppression in the United States is largely related to the dehumanization of their personhood, which extend...
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Students as Economic Actors, Past and Present Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 JENNIFER S. LIGHT
In this essay, Jennifer Light examines the ideal versus the reality of the “unproductive student,” the young person who puts off work in favor of schooling to develop their human capital for later workforce participation. The economic status of student activities has been the source of recent controversy with college athletes and graduate teaching assistants seeking greater recognition for the value
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Critical Canon Pedagogy: Applying Disciplinary Inquiry to Cultivate Canonical Critical Consciousness Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2018-12-01 JEANNE DYCHES
In this article, Jeanne Dyches investigates the ways in which inquiry models of instruction have failed to provide students with a space in which to grapple with discipline-specific histories and hegemonies. Accordingly, this study offers critical canon pedagogy (CCP) to help students problematize and disrupt the practices specific to a discipline. Drawing from critical curriculum theory and critical
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Beyond Magic Carrots: Garden Pedagogies and the Rhetoric of Effects Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2018-12-01 KATE CAIRNS
In this essay, Kate Cairns considers the implications of assessing garden pedagogies, arguing that a rhetoric of effects assumes an essentialist conception of the child-as-educational-output and bolsters a neoliberal vision of social change rooted in personal transformation. Drawing from ethnographic research with youth gardens in Toronto, Ontario, and Camden, New Jersey, she highlights contextualized
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The Quandary of Youth Participatory Action Research in School Settings: A Framework for Reflecting on the Factors That Influence Purpose and Process Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2018-12-01 GRETCHEN BRION-MEISELS, ZANNY ALTER
Youth participatory action research (YPAR) is a form of critical participatory action research that provides young people with opportunities to identify injustices in their current social realities...
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Reconsidering College Student Employability: A Cultural Analysis of Educator and Employer Conceptions of Workplace Skills Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2018-12-01 ROSS J. BENBOW, MATTHEW T. HORA
In this research article, Ross J. Benbow and Matthew T. Hora explore the employability narrative, a view that focuses on whether colleges and universities provide students with the skills they need to be productively employed after graduation. Using sociocultural theory to problematize this narrative and qualitative methods to fore-ground the experiences of postsecondary educators and employers, the
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Racial (Mis)Match in Middle School Mathematics Classrooms: Relational Interactions as a Racialized Mechanism Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2018-12-01 DAN BATTEY, LUIS A. LEYVA, IMMANUEL WILLIAMS, VICTORIA A. BELIZARIO, RACHEL GRECO, ROSHNI SHAH
While research has consistently shown the positive effects of having a teacher of the same race on various student outcomes, the literature has not examined how racial match affects the everyday in...
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Between the Global and the Local: Human Rights Discourse and Engagement in Two New York City High Schools Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2018-12-01 S. GARNETT RUSSELL
While there has been a rise in human rights education at the global level, little attention has been paid to how it is integrated into schools in the United States. Drawing on qualitative and quant...
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New Teacher Socialization and the Testing Apparatus Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2018-09-01 SARAH BYRNE BAUSELL, JOCELYN A. GLAZIER
Given the well-documented pervasiveness of high-stakes assessment in preK–12 schools, many researchers have investigated how testing affects students. In this article, Sarah Byrne Bausell and Jocelyn A. Glazier explore the ways that high-stakes testing influences beginning teacher socialization and the ways that teacher colleagues shape one another's responses to these policies. The authors use discourse
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On Getting Stuck: Negotiating Stuck Places in and Beyond Gender and Sexual Diversity-Focused Educational Research Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2018-09-01 SARA STALEY
In this article, Sara Staley presents a conceptualization of “stuck” places in the field of gender and sexual diversity educational research. She argues that in the process of pursuing complex questions about preparing educators to disrupt the cis-heteronormative context of schools, the field has created a master narrative in which the same dilemmas seem to arise. She draws on patterns of repetition
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Safe Routes to School? Black Caribbean Youth Negotiating Police Surveillance in London and New York City Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DERRON WALLACE
In this article, Derron Wallace examines how Black Caribbean youth perceive and experience stop-and-frisk and stop-and-search practices in New York City and London, respectively, while on their way to and from public schools. Despite a growing body of scholarship on the relationship between policing and schooling in the United States and United Kingdom, comparative research on how students experience
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“Afghanistan is a silent bird. But I am an eagle”: An Arts-Based Investigation of Nation and Identity in Afghan Youth Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2018-09-01 HEDDY LAHMANN
Western development organizations frequently target youth in conflict settings to participate in peaceful, cooperative activities to promote nation-building and deter violence. In this article, Heddy Lahmann examines the narratives of fifteen youth who participated in a US-funded nonformal arts education program in Afghanistan, which operated with the key objective of promoting national identity in
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Becoming an Insider and an Outsider in Post-Disaster Fukushima Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2018-09-01 KAORU MIYAZAWA
In this essay, Karou Miyazawa reflects on how she was both insider and outsider during her fieldwork in Fukushima, Japan, between 2013 and 2016, after the 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear power plant explosion devastated the region. During her time in Fukushima, Miyazawa experienced the emotions of community members as well as her own, which were rooted in specific individual and collective memories
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The Hidden Curriculum of College Athletic Recruitment Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2018-09-01 KIRSTEN HEXTRUM
In this article, Kirsten Hextrum considers institutional avenues that limit upward mobility opportunities by revealing a hidden curriculum of athletic recruiting that favors students from privileged backgrounds. The study's data center on forty-seven life history interviews with National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I athletes from an athletically and academically prestigious university
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Friday Night Lights Out: The End of Football in Schools Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2018-06-01 RANDALL CURREN, J. C. BLOKHUIS
In this essay, ethicists grounded in philosophy (Curren) and law (Blokhuis) argue that the US public schools' sponsorship of tackle football is ethically indefensible and inconsistent with their educational aims. Their argument relies on three ethical principles and a growing body of evidence that many students who play football suffer traumatic brain injury and cognitive impairment that undermine
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“I Must Be Emerald and Keep My Color”: Ancient Roman Stoicism in the Middle School Classroom Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2018-06-01 LEAH GUENTHER
In this essay, Leah Guenther, a middle school teacher on Chicago's South Side, discusses her practice of the ancient philosophy of Stoicism in her classroom, arguing that this misunderstood philosophy with roots in Ancient Greece and Rome has application in today's complicated educational terrain. She explains how she used Stoicism first to improve her own sense of tranquility and then how she used
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Psychological Approaches for Overturning an Immunity to Change Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DEBORAH HELSING
In this article, Deborah Helsing shows how practitioners in the helping professions—whether they be coaches, facilitators, educators, or counselors—can increase their own capacity to be effective b...
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Toward a New Model of College “Choice” for a Twenty-First-Century Context Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2018-06-01 CONSTANCE ILOH
The past two decades have seen massive changes in the higher education landscape, including the heightened participation of post-traditional students, high reentry and mobility of students within and across sectors, and the increased visibility of open admissions institutions, such as community colleges and for-profit colleges. Despite these radical shifts, the most commonly used college choice frameworks
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Intimate Possibilities: The Beyond Bullying Project and Stories of LGBTQ Sexuality and Gender in US Schools Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2018-06-01 JEN GILBERT, JESSICA FIELDS, LAURA MAMO, NANCY LESKO
In this article, Jen Gilbert, Jessica Fields, Laura Mamo, and Nancy Lesko explore the Beyond Bullying Project, a multimedia, storytelling project that invited students, teachers, and community members in three US high schools to enter a private booth and share stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) sexuality and gender. While recent policy making and educational research have focused
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Teaching in the Restorative Window: Authenticity, Conviction, and Critical-Restorative Pedagogy in the Work of One Teacher-Leader Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2018-03-01 SARAH M. FINE
In this article, Sarah M. Fine uses portraiture to explore the undertheorized question of what it means to teach in ways that align with the values of the restorative justice framework. The piece centers around the work of Nora, a veteran teacher-leader who explored this question in the context of her own classroom and, as a result, shifted her practice in significant ways, making it more deliberate
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Ethics, Identity, and Political Vision: Toward a Justice-Centered Approach to Equity in Computer Science Education Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2018-03-01 SEPEHR VAKIL
In this essay, Sepehr Vakil argues that a more serious engagement with critical traditions in education research is necessary to achieve a justice-centered approach to equity in computer science (CS) education. With CS rapidly emerging as a distinct feature of K–12 public education in the United States, calls to expand CS education are often linked to equity and diversity concerns around expanding
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Risky Business: An Integrated Institutional Theory for Understanding High-Risk Decision Making in Higher Education Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2018-03-01 LAUREN A. TURNER, A. J. ANGULO
Lauren A. Turner and A. J. Angulo explore how institutional theory can be applied to explain variance in higher education organizational strategies. Given strong regulatory, normative, and cultural-cognitive pressures to conform, they ask, why do some colleges engage in high-risk decision making? To answer this, they bring together classic and contemporary approaches to institutional theory and propose
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Knowledge Citizens? Intellectual Disability and the Production of Social Meanings Within Educational Research Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2018-03-01 ASHLEY TAYLOR
Intellectual disability may appear to many as a barrier to participation in or the production of educational research. Indeed, a common perception of individuals seen as having cognitive impairments, and especially those with minimal or no verbal communication, is that they are incapable of the reasoning or lack the deliberative capacities necessary to participate in research or policy-influencing
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Unscripting Curriculum: Toward a Critical Trans Pedagogy Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2017-12-01 HARPER BENJAMIN KEENAN
In this essay, Harper B. Keenan draws on his own experience as a white queer and trans educator to consider the meaning of a critical trans pedagogy. Amid dissonant narratives of equal rights and subjection, he explores how his classroom teaching is shaped by his own experience of gender conditioning as well as by the contemporary political climate surrounding trans identity. Keenan argues that a critical
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The Self in Social Justice: A Developmental Lens on Race, Identity, and Transformation Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2017-12-01 ELEANOR DRAGO-SEVERSON, JESSICA BLUM-DeSTEFANO
In this essay, Eleanor Drago-Severson and Jessica Blum-DeStefano add a new dimension to the literature on social justice in education and constructive-developmental theory by exploring how adult developmental theory can shed new light on the challenges and opportunities of teaching and leading for social justice. Drawing from their decades of research and teaching about leadership that supports educators'
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“We Are All for Diversity, but . . .”: How Faculty Hiring Committees Reproduce Whiteness and Practical Suggestions for How They Can Change Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2017-12-01 ÖZLEM SENSOY, ROBIN DiANGELO
Despite stated commitments to diversity, predominantly White academic institutions still have not increased racial diversity among their faculty. In this article Robin DiAngelo and Ozlem Sensoy focus on one entry point for doing so—the faculty hiring process. They analyze a typical faculty hiring scenario and identify the most common practices that block the hiring of diverse faculty and protect Whiteness
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What Meaning-Making Means Among Us: The Intercomprehending of Emergent Bilinguals in Small-Group Text Discussions Harvard Educational Review (IF 1.818) Pub Date : 2017-12-01 MAREN AUKERMAN, LORIEN CHAMBERS SCHULDT, LIAM AIELLO, PAOLO C. MARTIN
In this study, the authors examine how emergent bilingual second graders collaboratively constructed textual understandings, a phenomenon they call intercomprehending, by building on each other's contributions and positioning their ideas in relation to peer ideas. The study traces the interrelationships of the utterances of emergent bilingual students discussing text in English for the first time in
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