The Journal of Education () is an

academic journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and ...

, published by

SAGE Publishing SAGE Publishing, formerly SAGE Publications, is an American independent publishing company founded in 1965 in New York by Sara Miller McCune and now based in Newbury Park, California. It publishes more than 1,000 journals, more than 800 books ...

on behalf of the

Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development is the school of education within Boston University. It is located on the University's Charles River Campus in Boston, Massachusetts in the former Lahey Clinic building. BU Whee ...

, with Hardin Coleman as its editor-in-chief. It bills itself as "the oldest educational publication in the country".

History

The ''Journal of Education'' was formed in 1875 by the union of the ''Maine Journal of Education'', the ''Massachusetts Teacher'', the ''Rhode Island Schoolmaster'', the ''Connecticut School Journal'', and the ''College Courant''. The oldest of these, the ''Connecticut School Journal'', had been published under various names since 1838. The merged journal was originally called the ''New England Journal of Education'' from 1875 to 1880 and (after several additional mergers) became the ''Journal of Education'' by 1892. The

Boston University School of Education Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development is the school of education within Boston University. It is located on the University's Charles River Campus in Boston, Massachusetts in the former Lahey Clinic building. BU Whee ...

took over as its publisher in 1953. By the early 1970s, the relevance of the journal had lagged, and the school revitalized it by turning it into a student-run journal, modeling it after student-run law review journals. In 2009, this decision was overturned, and the journal instituted

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for its articles and editorial control by "eminent scholars" rather than students.

References

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History

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References