Why Teacher Turnover Matters? Thinking Beyond Test Scores When teacher turnover comes up in policy discussions, the focus almost always lands on test scores. Scholars and policymakers alike have shown that when teachers leave, student learning suffers. Yet schools are not simply sites of academic production. They are living communities where routines, trust, and relationships… Read More AJE Feature | When Teachers Leave, Discipline Rises: What Turnover Means for Students by Luis A. Rodriguez and Christopher Redding

A leading academic journal in education, Educational Researcher, recently published “How Free Market Logic Fails in Schooling–And What It Means for the Role of Government”, which questions the rapidly expanding set of market-based policies in education (Harris, 2024). The analysis is grounded in economic theory and empirical research, but readers of educational policy literature are… Read More Free Market Logic Fails in Schooling: A Response to Harris (2024) by David S. Knight & David E. DeMatthews

Access the full article published in the American Journal of Education here In times of crisis, schools and districts often become front-line responders to the needs of their communities. The COVID-19 pandemic made this clearer than ever, especially for immigrant-serving districts in the United States. In our article, “District Leadership Practices in Disrupted Contexts of… Read More AJE Feature | District Leadership Practices in Disrupted Contexts of Reception: Supporting Immigrant Communities in Times of Crisis by Rebecca Lowenhaupt, Paulette Andrade González, Jennifer (Jenna) Queenan, Edom Tesfa, and Dafney Blanca Dabach

The importance of examining barriers to higher education helps to increase enrollment as well as make education more accessible to anyone (NYU Steinhardt n.d.). In the United States,  the goal of a K-12 education is producing students who are prepared to maximize their human potential, build their passions and lead choice-filled lives, participate civically in… Read More Breaking Barriers: Higher Education in The United States by Jo Oliver-Yeager

Access the full article published in the American Journal of Education here It is imperative for educators to be culturally responsive. This is largely due to the widening gap between the increasingly diverse student population being taught by a stagnantly white educator workforce. One route to improve classroom instruction is through asset-based pedagogy (ABP), which… Read More AJE Feature | Asset-Based Strategies for Beginning Teachers by Andrew Kwok, Joseph Waddington, Jenna Davis, Sara Halabi, Debbee Huston, and Rita Hemsley