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School districts within the USA face ever-decreasing autonomy in rendering decisions regarding instruction, curriculum and the leading and managing of schools at the local level due to the ever-increasing accountability measures implemented by district, state and federal governments. This study investigates a joint university-school district partnership designed to develop turnaround administrators by exploring the tensions between autonomy and accountability. The findings indicate that mandates force educators to find new spaces that are contextually appropriate and effective in exercising their autonomy and accountability within a conceptual model for partnerships between schools, districts, universities and the governing bodies that regulate them.

This article explores experiences, reflections, and perspectives of actual or perceived linguistic discrimination as experienced by four Latina/o and one White foreign-born professors currently working in research universities across the United States. Building on the literature on linguistic discrimination and the theoretical framing of LangCrit, the authors exemplify instances of linguistic discrimination resulting from a member of the majority culture asserting their native speaker power over the foreign-born speaker with an accent. Through examining the participants’ accents, the authors expose the paradoxical simultaneous positions the participants occupy as oppressed-privileged beings. In the discussion and implications, the authors address raising consciousness around linguistic discrimination in an effort to transform the educational landscape and opportunities for historically marginalized communities.

Case studies have become a popular vehicle for pre-service teachers to be introduced to the challenges of classroom teaching and participate in hypothetical classroom decision-making. Because of the similarity of case study instruction to those classroom structures proven to influence a student’s adoption of mastery-approach goals, we expected that case study learning would predict educational psychology students’ adoption of these adaptive goals. However, there is limited empirical research on the impact of case study instruction on student’s motivation, particularly for students’ adoption of achievement goals. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between students’ perceived experiences in case study instruction and each of four achievement goals identified in the goal literature. Since self-efficacy may be another important influence on students’ achievement goals, we also included it as another predictor variable in our regression analyses. Both online and traditional on-campus students are included in this study. While neither performance goal was significantly related to case study instruction for either class format, perceptions of case study instruction predicted online students’ mastery-approach goals and predicted lower rates of mastery-avoidance goals in traditional students. Self-efficacy predicted greater likelihood of mastery-approach goals for traditional students and lower rates of mastery-avoidance goals in both class formats.