What Counts as Evidence in Educational Settings?

Judith L. Green is Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She holds a PhD from University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Green served as editor of the Handbook of Complementary Methods in Education Research (Green, Camilli, & Elmore, 2006) and of the Review of Research in Education (2006, 2008, and 2010). Her research examines how, through discourse, teachers and their students in linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms, socially construct disciplinary knowledge from preschool through higher education. She also writes on issues of epistemology related to collecting, archiving, searching, and analyzing video records within ethnographic archives. She is a fellow of the American Anthropology Association and the American Educational Research Association. She has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from Division G (Social Context of Education) of the American Educational Research Association and the John J. Gumperz Lifetime Achievement Award from the Language and Social Processes Special Interest Group (AERA).

• Introduction: What Counts as Evidence and Equity? - Allan Luke, Judith Green, and Gregory J. KellyThe Uses of Evidence for Educational Policymaking: Global Contexts and International Trends - Alexander W. WisemanNaming and Classifying: Theory, Evidence, and Equity in Education - Samuel R. Lucas and Lauren BeresfordEducation Rights and Classroom-Based Litigation: Shifting the Boundaries of Evidence - Kevin WelnerBeyond Academic Outcomes - James G. LadwigDefining Equity: Multiple Perspectives to Analyzing the Performance of Diverse Learners - Will J. JordanNew Technology and Digital Worlds: Analyzing Evidence of Equity in Access, Use, and Outcomes - Mark Warschauer and Tina MatuchniakEvidence of the Impact of School Reform on Systems Governance and Educational Bureaucracies in the United States - Gail L. SundermanWhat Counts as Evidence of Educational Achievement? The Role of Constructs in the Pursuit of Equity in Assessment - Dylan WiliamThe Teacher Workforce and Problems of Educational Equity - Judith Warren Little and Lora BartlettThe Changing Social Spaces of Learning: Mapping New Mobilities - Kevin M. Leander, Nathan C. Phillips, Katherine Headrick Taylor