Editorial: Welcome to Issue 21.1
Dear readers, authors, and contributors to Current Issues in Education,
The Winter of 2019 and Spring of 2020 arrived with unexpected challenges for all of us. Through these challenges, a steadfast team persisted to relaunch Current Issues in Education. This issue is the result of a sustained community effort and we would like to thank several people who have made this issue possible:
- Neelakshi Tewari, Education Policy and Evaluation doctoral student for leading the journal through the hiatus and helping to generate community interest around the relaunch.
- Dr. Stephanie McBride-Schreiner, Scholarly Communications Publication Manager, for her institutional knowledge of the journal and publication support.
- The Office of Innovation and Scholarship for providing technical support to the journal. Specifically, Dr. Punya Mishra for his enthusiastic support of the relaunch and Dr. Clarin Collins for her assistance with organizing the review-a-thon.
- Dr. Mirka Koro, Director of Doctoral Programs for providing doctoral student support.
- Dean Carole Basile for her continuing support of open access scholarship in the college.
While the journal was on hiatus, a backlog of manuscript submissions had accumulated. In mid-December 2019, 30 students, faculty, and staff members at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College volunteered to participate in a one week “review-a-thon.” During this time, manuscripts were sent out for anonymous peer review and reviewers had one week to read and provide feedback. After the week had passed, we held a virtual and in-person review-a-thon where reviewers had an 8-hour window to submit their decisions and feedback. The timely participation was phenomenal. We would sincerely like to thank the review-a-thon volunteers (who are named at the end of this introduction) for their thoughtful and timely feedback. This model worked so well, that we are considering it for a standard review practice moving forward.
On the topic of moving forward, we would like to formally introduce the new CIE student leadership team to our readers. We are looking forward to the team working together in the fall to continue the reinvention of CIE.
Editors
Lead Editor – Marina Basu
Consulting Lead Editor – Neelakshi Tewari
Section Editors
Educational Policy and Evaluation – Ivonne Lujano Vilchis
Leadership & Innovation – Renee Bhatti-Klug
Learning, Literacies and Technologies – Ananí Vasquez
Reviewer Board
Monica Kessel
Sarah Salinas
Helene Shapiro
Blair Stamper
Melissa Warr
For the relaunch, we are also reopening the portal for new submissions. Authors interested in submitting manuscripts for consideration should carefully review the submission checklist and author guidelines here.
In this issue you will find four articles from diverse perspectives of education. We would like to thank the authors for their patience and persistence through the submission and review process and appreciate their contributions to open scholarship.
Moving forward, this summer you can anticipate articles being released from the special issue Shaping the Futures of Learning in the Digital Age. Then, the next full issue of CIE will launch in Fall 2020.
We would sincerely like to thank the authors for their contributions, and thank our readers for their continued interest and support of CIE.
Sincerely,
Neelakshi Tewari, CIE Editor
Leigh Graves Wolf, PhD - CIE Faculty Advisor
Josephine Marsh, PhD - CIE Faculty Advisor
Review-a-thon Volunteers
Kristen Arnold
Tara Bartlett
Chris Brooks
Mary Mathis Burnett
William Butler
April Camping
Jacquelyn Christy
Kevin Close
Clarin Collins
Kelly Davis
Ashley Dominguez
Sherman Dorn
Barbara Fitzgerald
Andrea Fossum
Norman Gibbs
Philip Griswold
Monica Kessel
Yoonhee Lee
Diana Reed
Steve Salik
Frank Serafini
Seungki Shin
Theresa Stager
Melissa Strong
Neelakshi Tewari
Jennifer Treptow
Patty Violi
Melissa Warr
Alison Witherspoon
Lisa Yanez-Fox
