A Democratic laborer comments on the problem of abolitionism in the North as well as the South, claiming that the emancipation of enslaved people will result in the damaging of white labor rights and opportunities.
Build students’ media literacy by helping them contextualize stories about women candidates—and particularly Native women candidates—during election season and beyond.
On November 12, hearings begin for the Supreme Court cases that could decide the fate of DACA. It’s an opportunity for educators to start an important conversation.
Ernest Morrell is an associate professor in the Urban Schooling division of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (GSE&IS) and Associate Director for Youth Research at the Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access (IDEA) at the University of California at Los Angeles. For more than a decade he has worked with adolescents, drawing on their involvement with popular culture to promote academic literacy development. Morrell is also interested in the applications of critical pedagogy in urban education and working with teens as critical researchers. Morrell previously taught
James Joseph Scheurich is an associate professor in educational administration and the director of the Public School Executive Leadership Programs at Texas A & M. He is the author of Anti-Racist Scholarship and Research Methods in the Postmodern, and coauthor of The Knowledge Base in Educational Administration. He is the coeditor with Angela Valenzuela of the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. He is the author or coauthor of numerous articles in academic journals, including Educational Researcher, Journal of Education Policy, Urban Education, Educational Administration