Teenage researchers probe flaws in their schools
Blog by Debra Viadero/Education Week
When was the last time you heard a high school student spouting quotes from Paulo Freire and W.E.B. DuBois? That's what I heard over the weekend at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. This year, for the first time, the association invited high school researchers from around the country to come and share findings from their own "action research" projects. The researcher "mini-me's" came from inner-city high schools in Chicago; Los Angeles; Oakland, Calif.; Tucson; and other cities. (more...)