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How educational intermediaries connect research and practice
Knowledge brokers seek to transform education practice by sharing research, but are they effective at achieving this goal? -
Information Pollution in an Age of Populist Politics
The increasing influence of private interests in public policy has been facilitated by a growth in sources of “alternative” information and expertise. In education, teachers and schools are often the targets of these ... -
Inspiring and implementing bottom-up change: The omnivore’s advantage
In this commentary, first I join with numerous educators who have argued for or produced evidence supporting bottom-up, professionally-driven educational change. However, I then argue that to fully realize the potential ... -
Integrative Leadership and Cross-Sector Reforms: High School Career Academy Implementation in an Urban District
Purpose: This study analyzed leadership structures, processes, and practices that have enabled and constrained an ambitious career and college readiness reform within an urban school district. It was designed to discern ... -
Joining worlds: Knowledge mobilization and evidence-informed practice
In this volume’s opening chapter, Joining Worlds: Knowledge Mobilization and Evidence-Informed Practice, chapter authors and book editors Joel Malin and Chris Brown provide relevant background and describe the purpose of ... -
K-12 Choice-Favoring and Public-Favoring Stories
This article focuses on how language favoring educational choice shapes U.S. educational policy. We outline key features of some dominant narratives, providing several examples and showing how these stories contradict ... -
Knowledge Mobilization in Education: The Marshall Memo Case
The importance of intermediation between communities primarily engaged in research production and those primarily engaged in practice is increasingly acknowledged, yet our understanding of the nature and influence of ... -
“MOOCing” On Up? Experiences of an Elusive Course Completer
In this article, I apply autoethnography to recount and analyze my experiences as a recent enrollee and course completer of a massive open online course (MOOC). Research surrounding MOOCs heretofore has been predominantly ... -
Racial/Ethnic and Gender Equity Patterns in Illinois High School Career and Technical Education Coursework
This study analyzed high school Career and Technical Education (CTE) enrollments in Illinois, with comparisons to national data when possible, by career cluster and pathway and with respect to gender and racial/ethnic ... -
The Role of Knowledge Brokering in Fostering Connections Between Educational Research, Policy, and Practice
This chapter introduces knowledge brokering as a concept and set of practices focusing on its applications, strengths, and challenges in education. The chapter is divided into five sections. First, we consider the sorts ... -
Separate and Unequal at Hillsborough High: A Principal’s Challenges in Integrating “Academic” and Career and Technical Education Coursework
Dr. Edward White, Hillsborough High School principal, has decided to allocate faculty in-service time to address an unproductive chasm between academic and Career and Technical Education programming within the school, which ... -
The State Innovation Exchange and educational policy
Especially since 2010, conservative interests’ dominance at advancing their preferred policies across U.S. states has been clear, with large and escalating impacts in education. Although adversaries on the political left ... -
State of the States: Illinois
An analysis of PK-12 education budgeting and funding for Fiscal Year 2014, including priorities and pressing issues. -
Superintendent Job-Seeking Behaviors: Types of Positions Sought and Reasons for Seeking
SUMMARY: The proportion of superintendents seeking out new positions is greater than the national average superintendent attrition rate. While the majority of job-seeking superintendents are looking for other superintendent ... -
Superintendents Experiencing Threats and Contention
SUMMARY: As school board meetings have become contentious and amid an increasing trend of superintendents being fired without cause, a substantial number of superintendents or school board members have been threatened, ... -
Teachers in control of their own professional learning!
Joel Malin explores a bottom-up, self-directed, evidence-informed approach to professional learning. -
"Wouldn't it be cool if we could...?"
This is a formative evaluation report, completed for Butler Tech (a public-school district in Southwest Ohio) in relation to their Fifth Day Experience (FDE) pilot during the 2019-20 school year.