Having worked with graduate and undergraduate students and organizing with educators and families I’ve found that we don’t have enough discussion around policy. To be real, reading policies and reading about policy issues can sometimes be tedious and challenging. Policies often use a lot of jargon that only a few people are familiar with, and…
“State of the Research”: School Closings Mid-Atlantic Regional Symposium Friday, June 19, 2015 8:30a – 6:00p University of Pennsylvania philadelphia, pa Registration is NOW CLOSED – There will be audio recordings of the sessions, and follow the conversation on Twitter: #SchoolClosures @CritEduPolicy $15 suggested donation collected at the door No one turned away for…
A TAGPhilly 6th Annual Education for Liberation Conference Event #BlackLivesMatter: Centering Racial Justice in Our Fight for Public Education Friday, April 24, 2015 #WhatsRace Book Conversation Wooden Shoe Books 704 South Street 630 pm Download PDF Our Conversation: Join chapter author, Amy Brown, and book co-editors Bree Picower & Edwin Mayorga, in a conversation about What’s…
From our friends at the Collaborative for Equity and Education (UI-Chicago): February 2015: Should Chicago Have an Elected Representative School Board? A New Review of the Evidence Authors: Pauline Lipman, Eric (Rico) Gutstein, Rhoda Rae Gutierrez, and Tirzah Blanche Chicago has never had an elected school board, unlike 98 percent of school districts across the…
This map was created by conference organizer and doctoral candidate, Ariel Bierbaum.
“In light of ALL that is happening in American society, it stretches credulity to think that there are still people who think that we are BEYOND race. This collection underscores the way that race is implicated in every aspect of schooling and the editors and contributors take bold, empirically grounded positions that assert once and…
Full Committee Hearing – Fixing No Child Left Behind: Testing and Accountability” Watch here: http://ow.ly/HHoxK #NCLB Twitter Feed Below #nclb Tweets
First, we post content related to education policy that we come across and find important to share through the site and our social media platforms. Second, we operate an online journal titled #CritEdPol, Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies at Swarthmore College (ISSN 2473-912X), which is an open access, online, peer-reviewed journal for undergraduates, education policy…