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Malin, Joel: Recent submissions
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Should religious schools be publicly funded? Issues of religion, discrimination, and equity
This issue offers a critical opportunity to reflect on an enduring question in education: Should religious schools be state-funded? To facilitate this reflection, this issue offers six studies from Canada, Spain, and the ... -
Political battles in suburbia
Media reports have shown suburban school officials being threatened and school board meetings erupting into chaos. Rachel S. White, Michael P. Evans, and Joel R. Malin examine whether these politically contentious experiences ... -
Equity-centered knowledge brokering: Taking stock of challenges, strategies, and possibilities
The pursuit of equity is a cornerstone of progress across diverse fields. Emerging literature across several fields has begun to focus on how knowledge brokers can take an equity-centered approach. This narrative synthesis ... -
Demobilizing knowledge in American public schools: Censoring critical perspectives
Controversies have erupted in recent years over the teaching of critical perspectives in United States K-12 schools, particularly related to issues of diversity, race, gender, and sexuality. These tensions have resulted ... -
Teachers in control of their own professional learning!
Joel Malin explores a bottom-up, self-directed, evidence-informed approach to professional learning. -
The Role of Knowledge Brokering in Fostering Connections Between Educational Research, Policy, and Practice
This chapter introduces knowledge brokering as a concept and set of practices focusing on its applications, strengths, and challenges in education. The chapter is divided into five sections. First, we consider the sorts ... -
Superintendent Job-Seeking Behaviors: Types of Positions Sought and Reasons for Seeking
SUMMARY: The proportion of superintendents seeking out new positions is greater than the national average superintendent attrition rate. While the majority of job-seeking superintendents are looking for other superintendent ... -
Superintendents Experiencing Threats and Contention
SUMMARY: As school board meetings have become contentious and amid an increasing trend of superintendents being fired without cause, a substantial number of superintendents or school board members have been threatened, ... -
The Contestation of History in Schools in the United States
This short article seeks to understand and explain current efforts to restrict historical teaching in US schools, and describes their ongoing effects. It also includes consideration in the concluding section of what might ... -
How educational intermediaries connect research and practice
Knowledge brokers seek to transform education practice by sharing research, but are they effective at achieving this goal? -
The State Innovation Exchange and educational policy
Especially since 2010, conservative interests’ dominance at advancing their preferred policies across U.S. states has been clear, with large and escalating impacts in education. Although adversaries on the political left ... -
Information Pollution in an Age of Populist Politics
The increasing influence of private interests in public policy has been facilitated by a growth in sources of “alternative” information and expertise. In education, teachers and schools are often the targets of these ... -
"Wouldn't it be cool if we could...?"
This is a formative evaluation report, completed for Butler Tech (a public-school district in Southwest Ohio) in relation to their Fifth Day Experience (FDE) pilot during the 2019-20 school year. -
Evidence-Informed Practice in Massachusetts (USA): A Systems-Level Analysis
This chapter examines Massachusetts (USA) public primary and secondary educators’ use of evidence-informed practices. We pay special attention to the role of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education ... -
K-12 Choice-Favoring and Public-Favoring Stories
This article focuses on how language favoring educational choice shapes U.S. educational policy. We outline key features of some dominant narratives, providing several examples and showing how these stories contradict ... -
Educational brokerage and knowledge mobilization in the United States: Who, what, why, how?
Although the central role of educational intermediaries that can connect research and practice is increasingly appreciated, our present understanding of their motivations, products, and processes is inadequate. In response, ... -
Joining worlds: Knowledge mobilization and evidence-informed practice
In this volume’s opening chapter, Joining Worlds: Knowledge Mobilization and Evidence-Informed Practice, chapter authors and book editors Joel Malin and Chris Brown provide relevant background and describe the purpose of ... -
Cross-Sector Collaboration to Support College and Career Readiness in an Urban School District
Background: School reforms requiring collaborations spanning multiple sectors are increasing in prevalence, but extant research has primarily focused only upon cross-sector partnerships involving education and social ... -
Integrative Leadership and Cross-Sector Reforms: High School Career Academy Implementation in an Urban District
Purpose: This study analyzed leadership structures, processes, and practices that have enabled and constrained an ambitious career and college readiness reform within an urban school district. It was designed to discern ...