Sage Education

Dr. Steve Morrison is joined by Dr. Rebecca Mcleod, Dr. Jessica Napoles, and Dr. Mark Montemayor to discuss their articles that each researched the relationships between teacher evaluation, teacher delivery, and student achievement.

http://jrm.sagepub.com/content/61/3/249.abstract

http://jrm.sagepub.com/content/62/1/33.abstract

In November of 2014, JCEL put a spotlight on Dr. Melissa Martinez and her case, "College Information, Support, and Opportunities for All?" Dr. Martinez's case critically examines how a group of Latino/a high school seniors and one high school counselor perceives the distribution of college information and opportunities in their school.

JCEL put a spotlight on Dr. Brett Geier's case from the March 2014 issue entitled "The Wall Between Church and State Begins to Crumble: One Small Community's Struggle With Sectarian Influence in the Public School. His case examines First Amendment practices in a public school, and you can read it here.

Editor Steve Morrison interviews Dr. Kate Fitzpatrick about her article, written in collaboration with Dr. Jacqueline Henniger and Dr. Don Taylor, concerning the diversity of music education programs in higher education institutions.

http://jrm.sagepub.com/content/62/2/105.abstract

JCEL put a spotlight on the case authored by Dr. Terah Venzant Chambers and Ms. Lolita Tabron in the December 2013 issue, titled "Academic Success for Students of Color...At What Cost? The Importance of School Context at Birch High School." Dr. Chambers provides insight on the development of the case and how it can be utilized as a teaching tool for current and future leaders in the field of education.

Twenty years on from the implementation of the Education Reform Act 1988, Michael Strain and Tim Simkins guest edited a special issue of Educational Management Administration & Leadership entitled "The Legacy of the Education Reform Act 1988" (volume 36, issue 2 - http://ema.sagepub.com/content/36/2.toc). To mark the special issue, more than 50 education policy researchers met to review the impact of the act on teachers, administrators, parents and politicians. The one-day forum, hosted by SAGE and BELMAS, was chaired by Professor Ron Glatter and Professor Peter Gronn and featured other key academics from the field as well as Barry Sheerman MP. Posted April 2008.

Dr. Peggy King-Sears discusses the universal design for learning (UDL) framework and its application to students with and without learning disabilities.

Dr. Stephanie Al Otaiba speaks to the promise and the ongoing challenges related to Response to Intervention (RTI) as a means of both prevention and identification of reading disabilities.

Special Issue Guest Editors Annie Cheng and Ross Notman discuss the thinking behind the July 2014 special issue of Management in Education, ‘Exploring High Need and Social Justice Leadership in Schools around the Globe’. They were joined, as issue editors, by Miles Bryant of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Posted July 2014.

MIE Best Paper Prize winners Malini Mistry and Krishan Sood discuss the research process behind their award winning paper, ‘Under-representation of males in the early years: The challenges leaders face’