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COVER STORY:
Why We Banned Legos
By Ann Pelo and Kendra Pelojoaquin
Exploring power, ownership, and equity in an early childhood classroom.

EDITORIAL:
Back to the Drawing Board for NCLB
By the editors of Rethinking Schools

Action Education

• Teaching Is Not Testing by Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia

• Exerpts from the Senior Year Demonstration Resolution

Australia Battles Privatization
An interview with Angelo Gavrielatos

A Framework for Understanding Ruby Payne
By Anita Bohn

Savage Unrealities
By Paul Gorski
Classism and racism abound in Ruby Payne's A Framework for Understanding Poverty

What Names Us?
By T. Elijah Hawkes
How James Baldwin’s work shapes our school.

When the Teacher’s a Fan, Who’s on the Team?
By Terry Burant
A teacher's sports enthusiasm sparks a reflection.

Reclaiming Hidden History
By Michael Pezone and Alan Singer
High school students face opposition when they create a slavery walking tour in Manhattan.

• New York and Slavery

• Resources and Background

Reaching Between the Lines
By Thom Thacker and Michael A. Lord
An art contest helps students imagine the lives of runaway slaves.

Why Aren't We Shocked?
By Bob Herbert
Disrespectful, degrading treatment of women is so pervasive and so mainstream that it has lost its ability to shock.

The Future of Driving
By Jana Dean
8th-grade algebra meets rising gas prices and peak oil.

Teachers in Oaxaca Face Repression and Violence
By David Bacon
As protests against working conditions continue, the Mexican government responds with brutality.

• Poverty in Mexico and Oaxaca Fuels Conflict

Oaxaca Sketchbook
By Peter Kuper
Florida's new law undermines critical thinking.

COLUMNS AND DEPARTMENTS

Letters

Reviews

Robert Lowe explores the life and accomplishments of the most famous organizer of elementary school teachers in his review of Citizen Teacher: The Life and Leadership of Margaret Haley.

Wayne Au explores how far-right politicos have attacked public schools by attacking science in his review of Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design Is Wrong for Our Schools.

Strange Stuff

Short Stuff

Good Stuff - by Herb Kohl.

Resources