Month: September 2019
Race, Response to Intervention, and Reading Research
Journal of Literacy Research, Ahead of Print. In this critique, race is centralized to draw attention to the role it plays in the complex evolution of response to intervention, past and present. I use a critical race theory analytical lens…
The Education Exchange: Raising Student Achievement with Local Money – by Education Next
Is the Internet Changing Kids’ Brains? – by Daniel T. Willingham
How Progressive is School Funding in the United States? – by Matthew M. Chingos
In the News: California Teacher Tenure Laws Upheld – by Education Next
From Affinity and Beyond: A Study of Online Literacy Conversations and Communities
Digital technologies make possible new avenues for sharing and accessing literacy research and practices worldwide. Among the myriad of options available, web seminars have become popular online learning venues. The current investigation is part of Global Conversations in Literacy Research…
The Concept of Academic Mobility: Normative and Methodological Considerations
American Educational Research Journal, Ahead of Print. Most of the literature on the development of educational inequality has operated under the achievement gaps paradigm, often assuming that the underlying normative and methodological foundations related to equality and justice in education…
Adolescents Dialogic Composing With Mobile Phones
This 14-month study examined the phone-based composing practice of three adolescents. Given the centrality of mobile phones to youth culture, the researcher sought to create a description of the participants’ composing practices with these devices. Focal participants were users of…
Dynamics of Reflective Assessment and Knowledge Building for Academically Low-Achieving Students
American Educational Research Journal, Ahead of Print. This study investigates designs for developing knowledge building (KB) and higher order competencies among academically low-achieving students. Thirty-seven low-achieving students from a ninth-grade visual arts course in Hong Kong participated. The design involved…