Whiteness, Pedagogy, and Youth in America by Samuel Jaye Tanner (2018) provides an in-depth account of a school-based participatory action research project with high school students surrounding the complexities of whiteness and white students’ identities. This book is a helpful resource for AJE Forum readers interested in youth participatory action research (YPAR), art education, critical scholarship,
Mentoring Student Teachers and Interns: Strategies for Engaging, Relating, Supporting, and Challenging Future Educators by Lyman, Foyle, Morehead, Schwerdtfeger, & Lyman (2017) provides a broad orientation to mentoring pre-service teachers. The book is appropriate for AJE Forum readers interested in practices and policies related to pre-service teacher education or teacher pipeline issues. In ten chapters the
Book details: Rothstein, R. (2017). The color of law: A forgotten history of how our government segregated America. New York: Liveright. Hardcover, 345 pages, $27.95. The version of Reconstruction Era history I recall learning in school in the northern United States went something like this: the states of the former Confederacy, sore over their
Book details: Teaching with Vitality: Pathways to Health & Wellness for Teachers & Schools by Peggy D. Bennett. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017, 232 pp., $19.95. Teaching with Vitality: Pathways to Health & Wellness for Teachers & Schools (2017) by Peggy D. Bennett, a Professor Emerita of Music Education at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, presents
Book details: Assigning Blame by Mark Hlavacik. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Education Press, 2016, 208 pp., $30.00. Policy experts David Tyack and Larry Cuban explained in their seminal work Tinkering toward Utopia (1995) that discussing and debating the institution of formal schooling is “one way Americans make sense of their lives” (p. 42). With this understanding, it is
Review by Kathryn M. Bateman, Ph.D. Candidate in Curriculum and Instruction, Science Education, The Pennsylvania State University Book Details: The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way by Amanda Ripley. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2013. 307 pp., $15.99. Many Americans frequently lament the products of our education system, accusing schools
A Democratic Constitution for Public Education by Paul T. Hill and Ashley E. Jochim. Chicago ; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. 143pp., $22.50. Katherine L. Arrington The University of Texas, Austin It is no secret that the American education system currently serves some students better than others. There are persistent patterns of low academic
Review by Jesus Tirado, University of Georgia Book Details: Mission High: One School, How Experts Tried to Fail it, and the Students and Teachers who made it Triumph. by Kristina Rizga. New York: Nation Books. 2016. 295 pp., $26.99. Kristina Rizga’s (2015) Mission High presents a deep look at a school and the people who breathe vitality
Review by Bryan Mann, PhD Candidate, Educational Theory and Policy, Pennsylvania State University Book Details: The Prize—Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools? by Dale Russakoff. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. 246 pp., $27.00. The Prize, a well-crafted piece of journalism with particular relevance to educational policy scholars, chronicles an urban reform initiative in which
Review by Carrie S. Larson, doctoral student, Educational Leadership and Curriculum and Instruction, Portland State University Book Details: Race, Empire, and English Language Teaching: Creating Responsible and Ethical Anti-Racist Practice by Suhanthie Motha. New York: Teachers College Press, 2014. 113 pp., $39.95. Suhanthie Motha’s book Race, Empire, and English Language Teaching: Creating Responsible and Ethical Anti-Racist
