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Updated 12/21/11

ANNOUNCING:

NEW EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS
A Trans-ideological Journal of Criticism, Research & ReviewTM

In a top-down era of rubrics, standards, and bureaucracy, and in an unprecedented atmosphere of teacher-bashing, NEW EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS will offer independent and alternative voices. We invite outside-the-box critiques and nonstandard suggestions, ranging from opinion pieces to scholarly articles, for an online refereed journal of ideas and dialogue.

Because we expect to establish NEW EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS (NEF) within the framework of a nonprofit organization, we are relying on NewFoundations Press (newfoundations.com) for support only during our start-up phase.

In this journal we are looking for neither cheerleading nor venting — those are for blogs. We will neither favor nor reject any ideological bent, since as a group, we, the editors and reviewers of NEF ourselves, represent different, often conflicting commitments to fundamental beliefs.

Nor do we want to nurture either the culture of complaint or that of compliance — we have politicians who do that for a living. Rather, we are looking for the kind of ideas and research that just don't normally arise in committee meetings or handpicked commissions, selecting for quality of thought and presentation and editing principally for space and grammar.

This journal will be a forum for independent-minded teachers, professors, administrators, and researchers who prefer intelligent practice over merely implementing the will of others. We fear that "professionals" who just do what they are told may as easily serve a tyranny as a democracy, and if they're good enough at it, it becomes hard to tell the difference. There are alternatives to this scenario, and NEF will explore those alternatives.

Of course, we're also looking for readers. We hope to have an a complimentary first issue published for late summer or early fall 2012. This introductory issue will be available online via an address to be announced on this website. After that we hope to offer a yearly subscription of four issues for under $10. Because electronic publication eliminates the costs of printing, binding, and mailing, we hope to keep the price of subscription low.

So, if you want to become a contributor, send your monograph or letter of interest to info@newfoundations.com.

Cordially,

Roberts Ehrgott, Wade Carpenter, Gary Clabaugh, Richard Phelps, Edward Rozycki

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