Announcements

We are currently accepting submissions for the Summer 2025 issue of TxEd, including manuscripts for our upcoming special issue, Democracy Dismantled: Takeover and the Lived Experience of State-Directed Urban School Reform.

For more information, please visit our Upcoming Issues page.

 

Current Issue

Winter 2025: Volume 13, Issue 1

Open Call Articles

Utilizing Complexity Theory to Examine the Texas Science of Teaching Reading Standards
CATHERINE LAMMERT, Texas Tech University
VICKIE C. GODFREY, Jamestown Public Schools

From Theory to Practice: Logic Models for Evaluating Portfolio School Districts
SARA SANDS FRANCIS, University of Houston
FIZA MAIRAJ, University of Houston

The Impact of New Abortion Restrictions on Medical Students: A Qualitative Study of Responses to Texas Senate Bill 8
EMILY BROADDUS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MARA BUCHBINDER, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
ANNE LYERLY, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Courts Won’t Save Us: Community Organizing, Political Advocacy, and Movement Lawyering in Houston ISD
REBEKAH SKELTON, The University of Texas at Austin

Transparency Under Takeover: Financial Ramifications of the TEA Takeover of Houston ISD
BROOKE FOUSEK, The University of Texas at Austin
ALYSSA M. CHESSARI, The University of Texas at Austin
JARRETT LIPMAN, The University of Texas at Austin

Special Issue: Unveiling the Landscape of School Discipline in the United States: Opportunities, Innovative Strategies, and Prospects
Guest edited by John A. Williams III & Kathryn E. Wiley

A New School Discipline Fulcrum: Identifying and Rectifying
JOHN A. WILLIAMS III, Texas A&M University
KATHRYN E. WILEY, Howard University

Broken Windows Schooling: A Qualitative Case Study of the Disciplinary Experiences of Black Males in a Predominantly White Christian School
EVAN WILLIS, Northeast Seventh-Day Adventist Church
ERIN T. MILLER, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Restorative [In] Justice: Why Schools Struggle to Implement Restorative Justice for Black Girls
ALAINA NEAL-JACKSON, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Examining Trends and Patterns in K-12 Security Expenditures in Texas
CHRISTOPHER M. SALDAÑA, The University of Wisconsin, Madison
XINYU GUAN, The University of Wisconsin, Madison

Restoring the Land: Pro-Blackness as a Healing Force Against Anti-Black Classroom Management
JARVAIS J. JACKSON, Georgia Southern University
ASHLEY CARTER, Georgia Southern University

Extending Culturally Responsive Classroom Management to Enhance Contemporary Classrooms: A Conceptual Framework
MEGAN SVAJDA-HARDY, Texas A&M University
ANDREW KWOK, Texas A&M University

From Slow Reform to Meaningful Abolition: Exclusionary School Discipline and the Need for a New Paradigm
KATHRYN E. WILEY, Howard University
JOHN A. WILLIAMS III, Texas A&M University
SHAVONNE SIMMONS, Howard University

Current Issue

We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 13, Issue 1 of the Texas Education Review. In this issue, we present five open call pieces centered around educational issues in Texas, and seven additions to our special issue titled Unveiling the Landscape of School Discipline in the United States: Opportunities, Innovative Strategies, and Prospects.