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Leadership Education And Development For What?: Civic Imagination For A More Just And Democratic Society, Brandon W. Kliewer, Jeff Zacharakis Oct 2015

Leadership Education And Development For What?: Civic Imagination For A More Just And Democratic Society, Brandon W. Kliewer, Jeff Zacharakis

Educational Considerations

When institutions assign meaning to individual rights and distribute resources in ways that shape the life chances of people, if appropriately designed they strengthen social justice aims. Yet the natural outcome of how individuals relate to institutions does not automatically align with justice.


Table Of Contents And Introductory Materials For Vol. 43, No. 1, Fall 2015, Brandon W. Kliewer, Jeff Zacharakis Oct 2015

Table Of Contents And Introductory Materials For Vol. 43, No. 1, Fall 2015, Brandon W. Kliewer, Jeff Zacharakis

Educational Considerations

This content includes the table of contents, an In Memoriam for Chad Litz, editorial information and more for this special issue "Approaches to Social Justice and Civic Leadership Education."


Addressing Dilemmas Of Social Justice Mathematics Through Collaboration Of Students, Educators, And Researchers, Kari Kokka Oct 2015

Addressing Dilemmas Of Social Justice Mathematics Through Collaboration Of Students, Educators, And Researchers, Kari Kokka

Educational Considerations

In this paper, I provide a definition of Social Justice Mathematics. I explore three dilemmas that arise with SJM instruction and suggest ways in which collaboration among students, educators, and researchers may address these dilemmas.


Leadership Education And Development For Justice Using The Canonical Framework Of John Rawls's A Theory Of Justice, Brandon W. Kliewer, Jeff Zacharakis Oct 2015

Leadership Education And Development For Justice Using The Canonical Framework Of John Rawls's A Theory Of Justice, Brandon W. Kliewer, Jeff Zacharakis

Educational Considerations

Higher education that presupposes a specific conception of justice do well in preparing students to make claims of justice from specific perspectives or positions. However, civic leadership students with a strong background in specific conceptions of justice are often not equipped with necessary skills, dispositions, and habits to exercise leadership in ways that can manage political contestation associated with competing claims of justice.


Educational Considerations - Issues - 1973-2015, David C. Thompson Oct 2015

Educational Considerations - Issues - 1973-2015, David C. Thompson

Educational Considerations

An index to issues of the journal published from 1973-2015.


Community Connections: Integrating Community-Based Field Experiences To Support Teacher Education For Diversity, Christine Beaudry Oct 2015

Community Connections: Integrating Community-Based Field Experiences To Support Teacher Education For Diversity, Christine Beaudry

Educational Considerations

In the United States, preservice teachers often graduate and go on to work with students whose backgrounds are different from their own and in communities in which they have limited lived experience. This holds significant implications for teacher education programs given the importance of life and educational experiences in informing teaching and learning knowledge and practices and the subsequent impact of these practices in shaping the experiences and trajectories of students’ lives.


Educational Considerations, Vol. 43 (1) Fall 2015 Full Issue, Brandon W. Kliewer, Jeff Zacharakis Oct 2015

Educational Considerations, Vol. 43 (1) Fall 2015 Full Issue, Brandon W. Kliewer, Jeff Zacharakis

Educational Considerations

Educational Considerations, vol. 43 (1) Fall 2015-Full Issue


Teaching The Truth: Difficulties With Social Justice And Social Class In Graduate School, Leona English, Carole Roy Oct 2015

Teaching The Truth: Difficulties With Social Justice And Social Class In Graduate School, Leona English, Carole Roy

Educational Considerations

Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage to write the truth when truth is everywhere opposed; the keenness to recognize it, although it is everywhere concealed; the skill to manipulate it as a weapon; the judgment to select those in whose hands it will be effective; and the cunning to spread the truth among such persons.


Implementing A Dominican Model Of Leadership, Suzanne Otte Oct 2015

Implementing A Dominican Model Of Leadership, Suzanne Otte

Educational Considerations

Effective and ethical leadership, as practiced by scientists, statisticians, businesspeople, doctors, and politicians, is necessary to solving today’s vexing and knotty crises.


Teacher Quality And Sorting Across Traditional Public And Charter Schools In The Detroit Metropolitan Region, Michael F. Addonizio, C. Philip Kearney, Marytza A. Gawlik Apr 2015

Teacher Quality And Sorting Across Traditional Public And Charter Schools In The Detroit Metropolitan Region, Michael F. Addonizio, C. Philip Kearney, Marytza A. Gawlik

Educational Considerations

In the quest to raise student achievement in low-performing urban schools, researchers often point to the central importance of recruitment and retention of a high quality teacher workforce.


Perspectives On Student Loan Debt Levels: Student Loan Debt Levels And Their Implications For Borrowers, Society, And The Economy, Luke M. Cornelius, Sharon A. Frank Apr 2015

Perspectives On Student Loan Debt Levels: Student Loan Debt Levels And Their Implications For Borrowers, Society, And The Economy, Luke M. Cornelius, Sharon A. Frank

Educational Considerations

Upward mobility is a prized aspect of the American dream based upon the belief that those from humble origins can climb the socioeconomic ladder through education and hard work. Increasingly, postsecondary education is an essential component of that dream.


Educational Considerations, Vol. 42(2) Full Issue, David C. Thompson Apr 2015

Educational Considerations, Vol. 42(2) Full Issue, David C. Thompson

Educational Considerations

Educational Considerations, vol. 42(2)-Spring 2015-Full issue


Table Of Contents And Introductory Materials For Vol. 42, No. 2, Spring 2015, David C. Thompson Apr 2015

Table Of Contents And Introductory Materials For Vol. 42, No. 2, Spring 2015, David C. Thompson

Educational Considerations

Table of contents, editorial information and publication information for volume 42, no. 2 (spring 2015) of Educational Considerations.


Leading The Newly Merged High School: Exciting Opportunity Or Overwhelming Challenge?, Lance E. Thurman, Donald G. Hackmann Apr 2015

Leading The Newly Merged High School: Exciting Opportunity Or Overwhelming Challenge?, Lance E. Thurman, Donald G. Hackmann

Educational Considerations

In the current economic times, school personnel are regularly challenged to reduce the costs of operating the nation’s school systems. School district consolidations often are proposed as a mechanism to realize fiscal savings for local communities; indeed, the number of U.S. school districts has declined dramatically over the past 70 years, decreasing from 117,108 in 1939-40 to 13,809 in 2008-2009.


Education Funding And Student Outcomes: A Conceptual Framework For Measurement Of The Alignment Of State Education Finance And Academic Accountability Policies, Robert C. Knoeppel, Matthew R. Della Sala Apr 2015

Education Funding And Student Outcomes: A Conceptual Framework For Measurement Of The Alignment Of State Education Finance And Academic Accountability Policies, Robert C. Knoeppel, Matthew R. Della Sala

Educational Considerations

The conceptualization and measurement of education finance equity and adequacy has engaged researchers for more than three decades. At the same time, calls for increased academic accountability and higher student achievement in K-12 public education have reached new levels at both the national and state levels.


Perspectives On Online Education: A Snapshot Of State Regulatory Framework Development In Elementary And Secondary Online Education, Luke J. Stedrak, Amanda L. Rose Apr 2015

Perspectives On Online Education: A Snapshot Of State Regulatory Framework Development In Elementary And Secondary Online Education, Luke J. Stedrak, Amanda L. Rose

Educational Considerations

With the advent and growth of elementary and secondary online education in the United States, teaching and learning has undergone radical change with heretofore unimagined alternatives to traditional brick-and-mortar classrooms.