Browsing Malin, Joel by Author "Malin, Joel R"
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Characteristics of Tenure-Line Faculty in Leadership Preparation Programs: An Analysis of Academic Preparation and Administrative Experience
Hackmann, Donald G; Malin, Joel R; McCarthy, Martha MThis study investigated the credentials of 755 tenure-line educational leadership faculty members, using data collected through an online questionnaire. Findings disclosed that research institutions were significantly ... -
College and Career Readiness and the Every Student Succeeds Act
Malin, Joel R; Bragg, Debra D; Hackmann, Donald GPurpose: This study addressed the current policy push to improve students’ college and career readiness (CCR) as manifested within the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and examined CCR policy in the state of Illinois as ... -
The Contestation of History in Schools in the United States
Malin, Joel R; Harnish, Jason AThis 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 ... -
Educational Expertise, Advocacy, and Media Influence
Malin, Joel R; Lubienski, ChristopherThe efforts of many advocacy organizations to advance their preferred policies despite conflicting evidence of the effectiveness of these policies raise questions about factors that shape successful policy promotion. While ... -
Evidence-Informed Practice in Massachusetts (USA): A Systems-Level Analysis
Malin, Joel R; Winner, KendraThis 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 ... -
How educational intermediaries connect research and practice
Malin, Joel RKnowledge brokers seek to transform education practice by sharing research, but are they effective at achieving this goal? -
Information Pollution in an Age of Populist Politics
Malin, Joel R; Lubienski, ChristopherThe 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 ... -
Inspiring and implementing bottom-up change: The omnivore’s advantage
Malin, Joel RIn this commentary, first I join with numerous educators who have argued for or produced evidence supporting bottom-up, professionally-driven educational change. However, I then argue that to fully realize the potential ... -
Joining worlds: Knowledge mobilization and evidence-informed practice
Malin, Joel R; Brown, C.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 ... -
K-12 Choice-Favoring and Public-Favoring Stories
Malin, Joel R; Potterton, Amanda U; Lubienski, ChristopherThis 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 ... -
Knowledge Mobilization in Education: The Marshall Memo Case
Malin, Joel R; Paralkar, Vijay KeshaoraoThe importance of intermediation between communities primarily engaged in research production and those primarily engaged in practice is increasingly acknowledged, yet our understanding of the nature and influence of ... -
“MOOCing” On Up? Experiences of an Elusive Course Completer
Malin, Joel RIn this article, I apply autoethnography to recount and analyze my experiences as a recent enrollee and course completer of a massive open online course (MOOC). Research surrounding MOOCs heretofore has been predominantly ... -
Qualitative Research Designs for Policy-Relevant Research
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Racial/Ethnic and Gender Equity Patterns in Illinois High School Career and Technical Education Coursework
Fuller Hamilton, Asia; Malin, Joel R; Hackmann, Donald GThis study analyzed high school Career and Technical Education (CTE) enrollments in Illinois, with comparisons to national data when possible, by career cluster and pathway and with respect to gender and racial/ethnic ... -
The Role of Knowledge Brokering in Fostering Connections Between Educational Research, Policy, and Practice
Malin, Joel R; Rycroft-Smith, Lucy; Ward, VickyThis 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 ... -
Separate and Unequal at Hillsborough High: A Principal’s Challenges in Integrating “Academic” and Career and Technical Education Coursework
Malin, Joel R; Hackmann, Donald GDr. Edward White, Hillsborough High School principal, has decided to allocate faculty in-service time to address an unproductive chasm between academic and Career and Technical Education programming within the school, which ... -
The State Innovation Exchange and educational policy
Malin, Joel R; Tan, JingEspecially 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 ... -
State of the States: Illinois
Malin, Joel R; Noppe, Rene JAn analysis of PK-12 education budgeting and funding for Fiscal Year 2014, including priorities and pressing issues. -
Superintendent Job-Seeking Behaviors: Types of Positions Sought and Reasons for Seeking
White, Rachel S; Evans, Michael P; Malin, Joel RSUMMARY: 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
White, Rachel S; Evans, Michael P; Malin, Joel RSUMMARY: 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, ...