No Child Left Behind: Flowers don’t grow in the desert

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Democracy, Improvisation, and Schooling Reform

Experience from two decades of schooling reform work provide lessons in a least five critical areas: schooling structure, pedagogy, politics, ideology, and partnerships involving universities and schools. This paper explores and explicates these issues in the specific contexts of public school reform and restructuring. It raises the concept of interdependence as one key goal for reform efforts that employ collaborative and democratic practices among  schools, universities, and community partners

I Exist, Therefore I Should Vote: Political Human Rights, Voter Suppression and Undermining Democracy in the U.S.

The right to vote is clearly delineated among the rights identified in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the US has long held itself as the beacon of that democracy and enfranchisement. Yet, a long history persists of practices and policies of voter suppression and gerrymandering that targets the rights of Black, brown, and indigenous populations in the US, a history that has in recent years escalated. We use the framework of the Human Rights Enterprise to unpack this history and to explore why efforts of voter suppression are intensifying at this particular moment in history

Conversations, Dialog and Deliberation: Leaders Moving Towards the Democratization of School Refo

This work emerged over the course of the conference, Re/forming Education: Linking Schools, Universities and Communities for Democratic School Reform. During sessions held as part of the conference, participants were asked to engage in dialog about the issues presented. These dialog sessions, held most often in small groups, included note taking and group writing. As a result, this piece is the product of the multiple voices (Superintendent, Principal, Professor, Non-governmental Organizations) present during the conference. While the piece in no way reflects the complete thoughts of one individual, it does share some of the essence of the deliberation that  occurred