The full-length American Journal of Education article can be accessed here. While I wait for my coffee to re-heat, I click the little blue icon on my phone. A mom asks for advice on local schools. More than 200 responses roll in, panting a portrait of a subpar public-school system that “just doesn’t care” and… Read More Is Facebook Making Us Hate Our Schools? by Ashley Carey
Introduction America’s education system has been facing a crisis, evidenced by increasing homeschooling rates (Ray 2022) and the declining global rankings by PISA (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development 2016; Schleicher & Stewart 2008). America’s children – and by extension America itself – is rapidly falling behind its global contemporaries with various factors being cited… Read More STREAM: A Perspective to Evolve Education Towards the 22nd Century by Julie Muhlenfeld-Johnson, Sarah Mason, and Heather White
As teacher shortages are predicted to continue, it is important to evaluate teacher recruitment strategies and pipeline issues (Carver-Thomas et al. 2020). It is known that the demographics of students in K-12 schools have gotten increasingly diverse, as white students only make up 48% of the enrolled student population in elementary and secondary settings (NCES… Read More The Need to Recruit Teachers of Color – Considering a Local Perspective by Lillie Ko Wong
During 2024, there were 330 incidents of shootings on United States K-12 school campuses or with bullets hitting K-12 buildings (Gaultieri et al. 2024; Riedman 2024), including the shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia. Every mass school shooting has significant effects both immediate and rippling. After each one, the debate about guns and… Read More What Does it Mean for a School to be Safe? by Jennifer Classen
Introduction As academic scholars, researchers are constantly scrutinized by top-tier scholastic journals to maintain rigor in educational research in the face of the idiom ‘publish or perish’ in a tenure-track position. The intentional lines (re)drawn by colonialism within academia have built an infrastructure that insulates various epistemological foundations as ‘non-academic’ if they fall outside the… Read More Academia: An Image of Imperialism by Robert Lynn
Higher education institutions by and large have failed to protect students in cases of sexual harassment (Lasson 2020). Despite several regulations and policies that have historically guided the institutional representatives, protection from sexual misconduct and/or sexual assault is still complicated by several factors (Lasson 2020, Wies 2015). While siloed organizations, bureaucratic rules, and hegemonic… Read More Policy Inadequacy, Institutional Betrayal & Reluctant Acquiescence: International Students’ Silence Around Sexual Harassment Experiences by Semonti Dey
Managing Editors Semonti Dey is a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in Higher Education, currently working on her dissertation about Asian international students’ perceptions of sexual harassment. As the Managing Editor of the American Journal of Education, she supervised the student board for the last three years and currently oversees the journal’s daily operations along with mentoring… Read More Meet the AJE Student Board for 2024-2025 AY
The full-length American Journal of Education article can be accessed here. Months into the 2020-2021 school year, I asked Kendra what it was like meeting new rosters of students virtually. Like nearly all teachers I interviewed, she took issue with the question, claiming she had “not met” most of her students. Teaching remotely meant talking to muted… Read More AJE Feature | “Losing My Craft”: Teachers’ Relational Work with Students During a Pandemic by Jeremy Murphy
Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash The education system faces a critical shortage of leaders, and this extends beyond teachers; there are not enough K-12 school administrators. This crisis isn’t solely due to a lack of people entering the field, it is also caused by those who exit. Data from the National Center for Education Statistics’ 2023 National… Read More Unclear Roles, Unfulfilled Expectations: Hidden Reasons Behind the K-12 Leadership Shortage by Heather Lyon
Scholars in recent years have called for an emphasis on listening to children’s ideas and connecting with children through creative approaches to interviews (Clark 2017; Holmes 2019). To engage children in research, researchers have proposed effective, child-friendly interview methods, such as storytelling (Davis 2007; Eisner et al. 1990), art-based methods (Leavy 2020; Blaisdell et al.… Read More Training Teachers-as-Researchers’ Ethnographic Eyes to Interview Children by Jue Wang