The Oldest Education Journal in the Country

For more than half a century, the Boston University School of Education has been the home of the Journal of Education. Like the School of Education itself, the Journal is a bridge between the academy and the world of primary and secondary education. Through the Journal we seek to speak not only to our colleagues at other universities, but to teachers, administrators, public officials, and anyone else concerned with the quality of education.

A journal, like a school, must be open to a wide range of views. But it also needs a unifying direction, a guiding principle or set of principles. In the case of the Journal of Education, the salient principle is that our task is to build upon the accumulated wisdom of the ages. This is not to deny the possibility of orginiality in educational thought or to demand uncritical acceptance of our inherited educational traditions. It is, though, to urge a certain humility before those traditions and a certain caution about forsaking the wisdom born of experience for the latest innovation. In this spirit, the Journal of Education seeks to inquire deeply into questions of educational policy and practice, and to stimulate reflection and discussion among scholars, practitioners, and policymakers.



Charles L. Glenn
Boston University School of Education