essay reviews

Essay reviews are special peer-reviewed articles that examine in depth one or more recent books of particular significance on a single topic. Essay reviews are generally between 5,000 and 10,000 words in length. For instructions on submitting essay reviews to be considered for publication, see the Guidelines for Contributing a Book Review page.

2009
• Noltemeyer, Amity & Mcloughlin, Caven S. (2009, November 19) Evaluating Educational Interventions within an RTI Framework: An Essay Review. Review of T. Chris Riley-Tillman & Matthew K. Burns (2009) Evaluating Educational Interventions: Single-Case Design for Measuring Response to Intervention. Vol. 12 No. 16

• Shipps, Dorothy. (2009, October 22). Sticky School Reform or a New Progressive Era? An Essay Review. Review of Payne, Charles M. (2008). So Much Reform, So Little Change: The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools, and Kerchner, Charles T. ; Menefee-Libey, David J.; Mulfinger, Laura S. & Clayton, Stephanie E. (2008). Learning from L.A.: Institutional Change in American Public Education. Vol. 12 No. 15

• Calfee, Robert & Stahovich, Thomas (2009, October 8). Galloway's 21st Century Engineer: An Essay Review. Review of Galloway, Patricia D. (2008) The 21st Century Engineer: A Proposal for Engineering Education Reform. Vol. 12 No. 14

• Malewski, Erik L. (2009, September 22). Gresson's Race and Education: An Essay Review. Review of Gresson III, Aaron David. (2009). Race & Education. NY: Pater Lang. Vol. 12 No. 13

• Taber, Keith S. (2009, September 14). Constructivism and the Crisis in U.S. Science Education: An Essay Review. Review of Berube, Clair T. (2008). The Unfinished Quest: The Plight of Progressive Science Education in the Age of Standards. Vol. 12 No. 12

• Mcloughlin, Caven S. & Noltemeyer, Amity. (2009, September 1). Appraising School Psychology's Past, Present and Future: An Essay Review. Review of Fagan, Thomas K. & Wise, Paula Sachs (2007) School Psychology: Past, Present and Future. Vol. 12 No. 11

• Kumar, Ashwani. (2009, August 18) Social Studies in the Postmodern World: An Essay Review. Review of Segall, Avner; Heilman, Elizabeth E. & Cherryholmes, Cleo H. (Eds.) (2006) Social Studies—The Next Generation: Re-searching in the Postmodern. Vol. 12 No. 10

• Morris, Scott. (2009, August 4). Literacy as resistance; Resistance as literacy: An essay review. Review of Wallowitz, Laraine, (2008). Critical Literacy as Resistance: Teaching Social Justice Across the Secondary Curriculum. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. Vol. 12 No. 9.

• Garsdal, Jesper & Ydesen, Christian. (2009, June 15). The debate on educational and psychological testing in the United States: An essay review and outsider perspective with some philosophical musings. Review of Madaus, George; Russell, Michael; and Higgins, Jennifer. (2009). The Paradoxes of High Stakes Testing and Phelps, Richard P. (Ed.) (2009) Correcting Fallacies about Educational and Psychological Testing. Vol. 12 No. 8.

• Ohanian, Susan. (2009, June 5) Accountability and the Slippery Language of Public Relations: An Essay Review. Review of Kowalski & Lasley. Handbook of Data-Based Decision Making in Education. Vol. 12 No. 7.

• Corbett, Michael. (2009, April 27). Opportunity in crisis: An essay review of Theobald's Education Now. Vol. 12 No. 6.

• Vinson, Kevin D.; Wilson, Melissa B; & Swenson, Crystal. (2009, April 17). Multiple levels, multiple messages: An essay review of Levstik & Barton's Researching History Education. Vol. 12 No. 5.

• Falk, Thomas M.; Rocha, Sam; & Warnick, Bryan R. (2009, March 24). Social science and its discontents: An essay review of Bent Flyvjerg's Making Social Science Matter Vol. 12 No.4.

• Horn, Jim. (2009, March 5). The KULT of KIPP: An essay review. Vol. 12 No. 3 Review of Mathews, Jay. (2008). Work Hard, Be Nice: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America.

• Fetler, Mark. (2009, January 31). Test anxiety: An essay review of Koretz's Measuring Up. Vol. 12 No. 2 Review of Koretz, D. (2008). Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us.

• Barrera, Douglas. (2009, January 19). Everyone pays the price for inadequate schools: An essay review. Vol. 12 No. 1 Review of Belfield Clive R. & Levin, Henry M. (2007). The Price We Pay: Economic and Social Consequences of Inadequate Education. Vol. 12 No. 1

2008
• Hudson, Kanna. (2008, December 6). Making community through educational transformation: An essay review. Vol. 11 No. 9

• Blumenfeld-Jones, Donald. S. (2008, October 16). Experience, body, and the spontaneous moment: A meditation upon virtuosity and its possibilities for all of us. Vol. 11 No. 8

• Rosa, Ricardo D. (2008, October 8). Savage Neoliberalsim and Subaltern Responses: An essay Review. Vol. 11 No. 7

• Apple, Michael W. (2008, September 17). Raymond Williams and the Roots of Critical Cultural Studies in Education: An Essay Review. Vol. 11 No. 6

• Liou, Daniel D. (2008, September 12). Beyond Politics of School Size: An Essay Review. Vol. 11 No. 5

• Levin, Benjamin. (2008, August 6). In Search of a Broader View of Education Policy: An Essay Review of Glass's Fertilizers, Pills, and Magnetic Strips. Vol. 11 No. 4

• Morris, Scott. (2008, May 16). Henry Giroux—Urgently necessary and necessarily urgent: An essay review. Vol. 11 No. 3

• Childress, Amy & Rud, A. G. (2008, March 19). The university at the end of the last century: An essay review. Vol. 11 No. 2

• Scott, Jerrie Cobb. (2008, January 10). War, what is it good for? An essay review. Vol. 11 No. 1

2007
• Margolis, Eric. (2007, November 29). Teaching John Dewey: An essay review of three books on John Dewey. Vol 10 No. 14.

• Covaleskie, John F. (2007, October 25). The paradoxes of a liberal democratic education: An essay review. Vol. 10 No. 13.

• Fassbinder, Samuel Day. (2007, October 2) An expanded definition of "pedagogy": An essay review. Vol. 10 No. 12.

• Cibils, Lilian & Pruyn, Marc. (2007, October 2) Pedagogy for social justice: An essay review. Vol. 10 No. 11.

• Morris, Scott. (2007, September 27). The University and "Military Metaphysics": An Essay Review. Vol. 10 No. 10

• Fetler, Mark. (2007, July 10). NCLB blue: An essay review. Vol. 10 No. 9

• Scott, Catherine. (2007, July 3). Psychology's contribution to education: An essay review. Vol. 10 No. 8

• Coleman, Linda & Rud, A.G. (2007, June 7). The change process in a culture of learning: An essay review. Vol. 10 No. 7.

• Berhanu, Girma. (2007, June 4). Black intellectual genocide: An essay review of IQ and the Wealth of Nations. Vol. 10 No. 6.

• Wilson, Noel. (2007, April 26). A little less than valid: An essay review. Vol. 10 No. 5.

• Carifio, James & Perla, Rocco J. (2007, April 2). Rejoinder to Geelan: Dancing and playing around while science education and science education research goes up in romantic flames. Vol. 10 No. 4.

• Schutz, Aaron. (2007, March 14). Education scholars have much to learn about social action: An essay review. Vol. 10 No. 3. An essay review of Oakes, Jeannie & Rogers, John with Lipton, Martin. (2006). Learning Power: Organizing for Education and Justice.

• Geelan, David. (2007, February 23). Rumours of theory's death and resurrection greatly exaggerated: Response to Perla and Carifio. Vol. 10 No. 2

• Stake, Robert E. (2007, February 4). NAEP, report cards and education: A review eassay. Vol. 10 No. 1

2006
• Perla, Rocco J. & Carifio, James. (2006, December 19). Theory resurrected: An essay review. Vol. 9 No. 8

• Fetler, Mark. (2006, October 19). Food for thought: An essay review. Vol. 9 No. 7

• de Klerk, Gerda. (2006, October 7). HIV/AIDS and the Education of African Children: An essay review. Vol. 9 No. 6

• Mullen, Carol A. (2006, September 26). Deconstructing mentoring in academe: An essay review. Vol. 9 No. 5

• Duyar, Ibrahim. (2006, August 26). Analyzing educational productivity: An essay review. Vol. 9 No. 4

• Rothfork, John. (2006, March 27). Remaking the American University: Open for Business. Vol. 9 No. 3

• Mulchay, D. E. (2006, January 9). The Continuing Quest for Equal Schools: An Essay Review. Vol. 9 No. 2

• Vanhuysse, P. (2006, January 1). Bees and foxes, spiders and hedgehogs. Vol. 9 No. 1

2005
• Rothfork, John. (2005, November 30). Doom, gloom, and the misunderstanding of higher education: An essay review. Vol. 8 No. 2

• Anderson, Gary L. (2005, September 27). Academia and activism: An essay review of Jean Anyon's Radical Possibilities. Vol. 8 No. 1

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Education Review acknowledges the contribution of these ad hoc referees who have contributed their time to the journal by reviewing submitted essay reviews:

• Jessica Allen, California State University, Sacramento
• Bruce Baker, University of Kansas
• Audrey Amrein Beardsley, Arizona State University
• David C. Berliner, Arizona State University
• Jerry Bracey, Port Townsend, Washington
• Casey D. Cobb, University of Connecticut
• Aaron Cooley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• John F. Covaleskie, University of Oklahoma
• Arnold B. Danzig, Arizona State University
• Gustavo Fischman, Laboratorio de Políticas Públicas (UERJ)
• Ernest R. House, Melbourne, Australia
• Kenneth R. Howe, University of Colorado, Boulder
• Patricia H. Hinchey, Pennsylvania State University
• Aimee Howley, Ohio University
• Lyle V. Jones, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Pepi Leistyna , University of Massachusetts, Boston
• Eric Margolis, Arizona State University
• Martha McCarthy, Indiana University
• Alex Molnar, Arizona State University
• Michele S. Moses, University of Colorado, Boulder
• Ingram Olkin, Stanford University
• Jeanne M. Powers, Arizona State University
• A. G. Rud, Purdue University
• Lawrence M. Rudner, Graduate Management Admission Council
• Robert E. Stake, University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign
• Barbara Slater Stern, George Mason University
• Karen Tonso, Wayne State University
• John Willinsky, University of British Columbia
• Glen Y. Wilson, Northern Arizona University

 

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