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Video Interviews with Authors

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INTERVIEW WITH THELMA JACKSON

May 17, 2013

Also see "Educational Malpractice in Our Schools: Shortchanging African American and Other Disenfranchised Students" in the Volume 2 Number 1 issue.

 

INTERVIEW WITH JUSTICE BOBBE BRIDGE

July 23, 2012

Former Washington State Supreme Court Justice Bobbe J. Bridge, founder of the Center for Children and Youth Justice, was interviewed recently for our "Talking with the Authors" series in connection with her article for The Journal of Educational Controversy's issue on the School-to-Prison Pipeline.

 

DISCUSSION WITH ROSE SPIDELL

April 29, 2009

In this excerpt, ACLU staff attorney Rose Spidell discusses "The School to Prison Pipeline." This term describes a disturbing national trend in which students are increasingly removed from the public schools and channeled into the juvenile justice system. To learn more about "The School to Prison Pipeline," visit the ACLU's website.

 

INTERVIEW WITH DAVID ENGLE

June 11, 2008

In the fall of 2000, David Engle became the principal of Ballard High School in Seattle. At the time, the Seattle School was implementing an integration plan that allowed families to choose which high school they would like to attend. In the event of high enrollment at a particular school, the district had made provisions for a "racial tiebreaker" to be used, giving minority groups priority over the substantial population of white students in the area. When, after the protests of many of the white neighborhoods in the Seattle area, the 9th Circuit Court ruled against use of the "racial tiebreaker," Engle resigned his position in protest.

 

INTERVIEW WITH AARON CAPLAN

April 30, 2008

ACLU staff attorney Aaron Caplan discusses the Morse v Frederick case, in which a student in Alaska held up a banner titled "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" during the 2002 Olympic Torch Relay, and was subsequently suspended for 10 days. Frederick, who argued that his right to free speech had been violated, took his case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled against him in 2007.

 

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE 10th ANNUAL EDUCATIONAL LAW AND SOCIAL JUSTICE FORUM, "SCHOOLING AS IF DEMOCRACY MATTERS"

April 30, 2008
Clip 1 - ACLU staff attorney Aaron Caplan
 
Clip 2 - Whatcom Day Academy instructor Vale Hartley
 
Clip 3 - Western Washington University professor Bill Lyne
 
Clip 4 - Q & A session with the panelists
 

Full Interviews

Interview with Jioanna Carjezaa, Apr. 8, 2014

 

Interview with Curtis Acosta, Oct. 17, 2013

 

Interview with Thelma Jackson, African American Think Tank and President, Foresight Consultants, Olympia, Washington, May 17, 2013

 
 

Interview with author Justice Bobbe Bridge, former Justice of the Washington State Supreme Court, Founder of the Center for Child and Youth Justice, July 23, 2012

Volume 7, Number 1, Fall 2012 / Winter 2013: The School-to-Prison Pipeline

Volume 3, Number 1, Winter 2008: Schooling as if Democracy Matters

APRIL 30, 2008
INTERVIEW WITH AARON CAPLAN


Staff Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union, Washington, Loyola Law School, California

 

ARTICLE: Visions of Public Education in Morse v. Frederick

Lorraine Kasprisin, Editor, Journal of Educational Controversy

CO-INTERVIEWERS:

  • Daniel Larner, Fairhaven College, Western Washington University
  • John Richardson, Sociology Department, WWU
  • Bruce Larson, Secondary Education Department, WWU
  • Mary Lynne Derrington, Educational Administration Program, WWU
  • Jessica Sheinbaum, MIT graduate student, WWU
  • Hillary Hall, MIT graduate student, WWU

MAY 8, 2009
INTERVIEW WITH WILLIAM LYNE


Professor of English and African American Literature Western Washington University

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ARTICLE: Beautiful Losers

Lorraine Kasprisin, Editor, Journal of Educational Controversy

CO-INTERVIEWERS:

  • Vernon (Damani) Johnson, Political Science Department, WWU
  • John Richardson, Sociology Department, WWU
  • Spencer Ellsworth, Graduate Student, WWU English Department, JEC Editorial Staff
  • Chas Hoppe, Graduate Student, WWU English Department, JEC Editorial Staff

Volume 2, Number 1, Winter 2007: Jonathan Kozol's Nation of Shame Forty Years Later

JUNE 11, 2008
INTERVIEW WITH DAVID ENGLE


Former principal of Ballard High School, Seattle, Washington
 

ARTICLE: As Our Students Watched

Lorraine Kasprisin, Editor, Journal of Educational Controversy

CO-INTERVIEWERS:

  • Johann Neem, History Department, Western Washington University
  • Brett Rubio, University of Washington
  • Molly Lawrence, Secondary Education Department, WWU
  • Kristina Anderson, Teacher, Ballard High School, Seattle, M.Ed. graduate student, WWU