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Educational Expertise, Advocacy, and Media Influence
The efforts of many advocacy organizations to advance their preferred policies despite conflicting evidence of the effectiveness of these policies raise questions about factors that shape successful policy promotion. While ...
Characteristics of Tenure-Line Faculty in Leadership Preparation Programs: An Analysis of Academic Preparation and Administrative Experience
This study investigated the credentials of 755 tenure-line educational leadership faculty
members, using data collected through an online questionnaire. Findings disclosed that research institutions were significantly ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
State of the States: Illinois
An analysis of PK-12 education budgeting and funding for Fiscal Year 2014, including priorities and pressing issues.
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 ...