Call for Submissions

Equity & Excellence in Education

Special Issue: Class and Education

Class Action is guest editing an issue of Equity & Excellence in Education. We are currently soliciting manuscripts for a special theme issue on Class and Education. For more about the Aims and Scope of Equity and Excellence in Education please see, http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10665684.asp

We welcome scholarly research, as well as, well-documented descriptive articles that examine topics such as the following:

• Working Class Studies

• Class and Standardized Testing

• Cross Class Relationships in Educational Settings

• Intersections of Class and Race in Education

• Student Financial Aid and Class in Higher Education

• Visions of an Anti-Classist Educational System

• Magnet Schools

• Special Education, Disability and Class

• Class, Military Recruitment, and Education

• Class and the School Privatization Movement

• Philanthropy and Education

• Private/Independent vs. Public Schools

• School Technology and School Funding

• Cross Class Educators

• Class Implications of No Child Left Behind

• The Charter School Phenomenon

• Tax Policy and School Funding

• Social Class and Adult Education

• Education about Class and Classism

• Changing Class: Education and Social Change

• Education as Access Channel to Class Mobility

• Education as Class Marker or as Class Liberator

• Issues Related to Class Inequality in Education (pre-K through adult ed)

• Differing Graduation, Retention, and Transfer Rates Among Students of Different Class Backgrounds

• Creative Pedagogies/Programs for Meeting First Generation College Students’ Needs

• Elite Education and the Reproduction of the Class System

• Class in the Classroom or What Have You Learned About Class in School Today

• Class Culture and Education: The Hidden Rules of Class

• The Impact of Students with Less Class Privilege Going Into a More Privileged Environment

• Economic and Racial Integration (and/or Tracking) (and/or Re-segregation) in Schools

• Intersections of Class and Gender and/or Sexuality in Education

• Teachers Experience in Cross Class School Environments

• The Content of Education: What’s Taught and For What Purpose

• Zero Tolerance Policies and Criminalization and the Schools

• Maintaining a Class of Working Poor: Denying higher ed. access to immigrant youth

• Moving Beyond Classsim in Service Learning: Service Learning Projects That Break Down Class Barriers

• How Your Zip Code Can Predict Your College Access/Success

• Pulling the Plug on Public Education: The Un-Support of Public Education

Submission Guidelines

Complete manuscripts are due November 15, 2006. Submit three “masked” paper (hard) copies plus a disk with separate cover title page including author contact information. Suggested article length: 25 double-spaced pages. Please indicate in your cover letter that the submission is for the special issue on Class and Education.

Mail to: Equity & Excellence in Education, Hills South 370, School of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003.

For author guidelines, please visit the journal website (http://www.eee-journal.com). All submissions are peer reviewed.

Contact Felice Yeskel, Co-Director Class Action, with any questions related to this special issue: fyeskel@classism.org

CALL FOR PAPERS

Annual Conference of the Working-Class Studies Association
June14-17, 2007

Class Matters:
Working-Class Culture and Counter-Culture

Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota
Dormitory housing available

This conference will explore working-class culture in all its forms –
activism, pop culture, the arts, storytelling, and more. Working-
class culture can be a source of unity as well as division, and it is
constructed in the workplace as well as in the realms of "leisure" and
popular culture. At this conference, we hope to explore the
relationships between "cultural workers" and their audiences, control
over the means of cultural production (publishers, music producers,
universities, etc.), and the commodification of working-class culture,
among other issues. We are eager to provide a venue in which scholars
of working-class culture using Humanities and Social Science frames
and lenses can come together with each other, and with creators of
working-class culture.

How has working-class culture changed over time? Is there is a
diasporic, transnational, and/or global working-class culture? How do
working-class people use representations, organizations, and everyday
life to resist the dominant culture? How does working-class culture
reflect divisions among working-class people?

We invite proposals for presentations, panels, posters, roundtables,
and performances. Submit 1-page abstracts with a brief biographical
statement January 15, 2007 to:

Peter Rachleff
History Department
Macalester College
1600 Grand Avenue
St. Paul, Minnesota 55105
Or by email to rachleff@macalester.edu.

For more information, contact Peter Rachleff, rachleff@macalester.edu,
or by phone at 651-696-6371.