NCES have released updates to their bullying statistics
The NCES released an update to their statistics on bullying in American schools last week. To those interested, you can find the data below. NCES 2015 Update More to come …
View ArticleAERA 2015: Day 1
With AERA’s 2015 meeting here at last, I’ve sorted through the program and pulled out the sessions I’ll be attending, provided timing and locations make attendance possible. Come on by and chat at this...
View ArticleDiscriminatory law will rarely discriminate explicitly: The case of Indiana’s...
I rarely foray out of the realm of educational policy. That said, Garrett Epps’ quick legal breakdown of Indiana’s “religious freedom law” (from over at The Atlantic) is well worth reading. Epps...
View ArticleUntil Americans let go of the notion that homosexuality is “sinful,” queer...
– Karen L. Graves Graves, K.L. (2009). And they were wonderful teachers: Florida’s purge of gay and lesbian teachers. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. p. 148
View ArticleMichel Foucault on a Culture of the Self
I stumbled onto a right-cool recording of Foucault’s lecture at UC Berkeley on “The Culture of the Self” from back in April of 1983. Our current “politics of self” are grounded in the idea that there...
View ArticleFour bills on bullying that Congress is just sitting on
The US Congress presently has four bills that include bullying and schools awaiting action. As of this writing, every one is languishing awaiting committee review — which is a prerequisite for getting...
View ArticleA growing database of worthwhile queer young adult fiction
One of the challenges in teaching about gender and sexual identities is that students are afraid to discuss them outside of heteronormative binaries — straight men or women. This is especially true for...
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Academic workflow: My tagging scheme
Articles, book chapters, reports, and news articles have a way of accumulating “like whoa” in academia. With so many files to manage, a functional and flexible tagging system makes all the difference...
View ArticleOregon has sworn in America’s first bisexual governor … so here’s some...
The first openly bisexual politician, Kate Brown, was sworn in as Oregon’s governor this week (here; here). While Brown is not the only out bisexual in American politics, she is currently the highest...
View ArticleOn the time limitations faced by Kentucky educators addressing bullying
This is 2 of 2 in a short series of posts on WKYT’s reporting of Kentucky schools working to address bullying. The prior post provided a little context to the difficulties inconsistent definitions of...
View ArticleInconsistent definitions of bullying pose challenges in Kentucky schools
This is 1 of 2 in a short series of posts on WKYT’s reporting of Kentucky schools working to address bullying. Addressing bullying in schools is no easy task for educators. Inconsistent definitions of...
View ArticleMontana hears support and opposition on possible anti-bullying law
Post 2 of 2 – an update on Montana’s debate on a new anti-bullying bill. See my previous post on the bill itself. Montana’s Education Committee hearing on a possible anti-bullying law (H.B. 284) went...
View ArticleAnti-bullying provision introduced to 114th Congress
Yet again, a Senate bill has been filed proposing an amendment to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) “to take action to prevent bullying and harassment of students” (p. 1; S. 311). It...
View ArticleMontana is the only state without an anti-bullying law … and that might...
UPDATE: Post 1 of 2. I share the hearing itself in a follow-up post. 49 of America’s 50 states have laws on their books requiring school districts, and sometimes individual schools themselves, to...
View ArticleBy insisting that queerness does have a place in schools, queer politics...
– Claudia W. Ruitenberg Ruitenberg, C.W. (2010). Queer politics in schools: A Ranciérean reading. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 42(5-6), 618-634.
View ArticleJ. Jack Halberstam on Queer Theory
https://ia802502.us.archive.org/27/items/HalberstamQueerTheory-AnkaraTurkey/Halberstam-QueerTheory-Turkiye.mp3 (audio here) Halberstam spoke on Queer Theory (QT) — and the importance of...
View ArticleTrans lives matter – inside and outside of schools
Sabrina Rubin Erdely over at Rolling Stone has just published another investigative article into the lived experiences of queer persons in Minnesota. Her new piece (here) recounts CeCe McDonald’s...
View ArticleThe ability of anyone in the culture to support and honor gay kids may depend...
– Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Sedgwick, E.K. (1990). Epistemology of the closet. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. p. 42
View ArticleUS Department of Education clarifies that Title IX is inclusive of gender...
The US Department of Education released a guidance document clarifying how it will be interpreting some of Title IX’s protections as they relate to trans* persons in schools. They’re speaking...
View ArticleOne need only learn how to be equal men in an unequal society. This is what...
– Jacques Ranciere Ranciere, J. (1991). The ignorant schoolmaster: Five lessons in intellectual emancipation. (K. Ross, Trans.). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. p. 133.
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