BELLINGHAM - Western Washington University's Woodring College of Education will present the 10th annual Educational Law and Social Justice Forum at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, in Miller Hall room 163.

The theme of this year's forum is "Schooling as if Democracy Matters," which reflects the topic of the winter 2008 issue of WWU's Woodring College of Education's Journal of Educational Controversy, and will feature authors whose articles appear in that issue.  The forum is free and open to the public.

The Journal of Educational Controversy is also initiating a special video series called "Talking with Authors" that will feature interviews with various authors whose work has been published in the journal. Readers can now read articles and then view a video interview with the authors within the journal itself. The first interview will be with Aaron Caplan, from the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington state. His article, about the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the case of a high school principal who suspended a student for a banner promoting illegal drug use, appeared in the winter 2008 issue.

The Journal's summer issue on poverty will be dedicated to Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, who will write the issue's prologue. The winter 2009 issue titled "Art, Social Imagination and Democratic Education" is dedicated to Maxine Greene and will feature a special section on the art exhibit currently on view at Western Washington University's Western Gallery.

Readers can find the journal at http://www.wce.wwu.edu/eJournal.

This forum is sponsored by the Journal of Educational Controversy and the Center for Educational Pluralism at the Woodring College of Education.  It is co-sponsored by the American Democracy Project, the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington State and the WWU Center for Service-Learning. 

For more information contact Lorraine Kasprisin, editor, Journal of Educational Controversy and professor of Educational Foundations, Secondary Education Department, Woodring College of Education, at (360) 650-3871.

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