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What makes a school "good?"
The first full Edition of The Citation asks what parents can learn about a school beyond ratings and test scores.
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Have We Learned Anything?
Dr. Clara Vaz Bauler examines how remote-learning schedules and classroom norms extended familiar structures of surveillance and control into students’ homes.
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The Sound of Misbehaviour
Dr. Ian Cushing examines how school behavior policies can frame non-standard language as misbehavior and reinforce deficit thinking.
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Supporting Children’s Emotions and Relationships
Dr. Elizabeth K. King’s research examines how teachers’ emotion language may relate to children’s relationships and emotional development.
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Strangeness in the Looking Glass
Dr. Maria Rosa Brea-Spahn and colleagues offer a way to examine how children’s picture books may reinforce or challenge beliefs about language, identity, and belonging.
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The Classic: What Does a Certificate Tell Us About Teacher Effectiveness?
A 2008 study of New York City teachers asks whether certification status can reliably predict teacher effectiveness.
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What Is The Citation?
“The value of jargon is to facilitate communication within a field. However, in many instances use of jargon inhibits communication with outsiders.” That quote is from an article in, of all places, the official journal of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT), and I believe, in writing
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Skynet Isn’t Real.
Before you let apocalyptic headlines convince you that a chatbot is the Terminator, let's establish what "Artificial Intelligence" actually means. A look at why precise definitions matter more than clickbait.
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Sociolinguistic research projects as brands.
Scholars often dismiss branding as superficial, but it is an essential tool for public impact. How one linguistics team used intentional design and tone to build trust and gather vital data.
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GAI in English L2 writing.
The media frequently reduces AI in education to student plagiarism. Discover why Multilingual Learners are utilizing Generative AI not to cheat, but as a crucial bridge for cross-cultural communication.
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A rose by any other name.
Jargon is useful for experts, but disastrous for public understanding. A foundational look at why clear, accessible language is required to keep scientific knowledge from being locked away.