Boston University School of Education
November 2002
Boston University's School of Education is reviving and remaking its 125-year-old education journal under the editorship of Richard Silberman. It seeks to play a role in education policy debates akin to the roles played by Foreign Policy, The Public Interest and The American Scholar in their respective fields - somewhere between an academic journal and a popular magazine. This debut issue is 117 pages long, not at all glamorous to look at, but has some pretty good stuff in it: a meditation on teaching by Thomas Cottle, a thoughtful commencement address by former education dean Edwin J. Delattre, a discussion of the tension between teacher creativity and accountability, an explanation of why Department of Defense schools do relatively well academically and what local systems might learn from them, a couple of perceptive book reviews, and more. There doesn't appear to be a website but you can request a subscription by writing Journal of Education, Boston University School of Education, 605 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215.
