CONTINUING EDUCATION Education Gone Bad: Cautionary Tales from the United States Elizabeth A. Marshall 1 • Lissa Paul 2 Ó Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2018 This special issue began as a paper panel presented at the Children’s Literature Association conference in June 2014. Speakers focused on the dirty underbelly of educational theory, teaching, curriculum, and life in schools in the U.S. and Canada. That was then and this is now. In 2018, as our special issue comes into print the world is a radicallydifferent place. In 2014, we had yet to learn of ‘‘Brexit’’ or ‘‘the Trump effect’’—the increased bullying and harassment of racial and religious minorities within schools during and after the November 2016 election of Donald Elizabeth Marshall is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she teaches children’s and young adult literature. She is the co- editor of Rethinking Popular Culture and Media (2016). Her interdisciplinary research on representations of childhood in popular cultural texts for, by, and/or about youth has been published in a wide range of academic journals. Her new book is entitled Graphic Girlhoods: Visualizing Education and Violence (2018). Lissa Paul, a professor at Brock University, Ontario Canada is an Associate General Editor for The Norton Anthology of Children’s Literature (2005), and co-editor, with Philip Nel, of Keywords for Children’s Literature (2011). She is also the author of The Children’s Book Business (2011). A recent essay, ‘‘Poems in the Nursery, co-written with Andrea Immel, was published in The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry: 1660-1800, edited by Jack Lynch. Her biography on Eliza Fenwick (1766-1840) is forthcoming as is a new edition of Keywords for Children’s Literature, co-edited with Philip Nel and Nina Christensen. & Elizabeth A. Marshall elizabeth_marshall@sfu.ca Lissa Paul lpaul@brocku.ca 1 Simon Fraser University, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3, Canada 2 Brock University, Office: WH 379, St. Catharines, ON, Canada 123 Children’s Literature in Education https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-018-9349-7