Volume 19, No.3

Spring 2005

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Framing the Family Tree

How teachers can be sensitive to students' family situations

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Welcoming Kalenna

An early childhood teacher strives to make all her students feel at home

By Laura Linda Negri-Pool

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Strawberry Fields Forever?

An early childhood teacher draws on her past while teaching children of migrant farmworkers

By Cirila Ramírez

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Testing Lang

By Amy Gutowski

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Holding Nyla

An inclusion classroom becomes the stage for learning and acceptance

By Katie Kissinger

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What About Play?

When "screen time" and drills replace open-ended play, kids lose out

By Sharna Olfman

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Confession

Not only do my students play in the classroom, but it's good for them

By Seth Shteir

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Exploring Our Urban Wilderness

A second and third-grade teacher helps his students discover the natural world in their urban environment

By Mark Hansen

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The Recruitment Minefield

Critical literacy activities can protect students against predatory military recruiting

By Bill Bigelow

Emiliano Santiago. Not many of our students know his name. But they should. Santiago joined the Oregon Army National Guard on June 28, 1996, shortly after his high school graduation […]

Integrals and Equity

A math lesson prompts new awareness for prep school students-and their teacher

By Megan Staples

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We Are the World

A call for solidarity among teachers around the world to combat forces of globalization and privatization

By Mary Compton

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Short Stuff 19.3

As Seen on TV Sylvan Learning Center, the nation’s largest tutoring company, is adding a new component to its widespread advertising campaign. Sylvan’s parent company, Educate Inc., gained another popular […]

Strange Stuff 19.3

Abstinence Inaccuracy Federally funded abstinence-only sex education programs are leaving students misinformed, according to California Rep. Henry A. Waxman’s recent Congressional study. The study examined the content of sex education […]

Tips for Teachers

By Laura Linda Negri-Pool

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Resources on Family Diversity

All Families Are DifferentBy Sol Gordon (Prometheus Books, 2000) 50 pp. $10.50 Clinical psychologist Sol Gordon provides an adult voice in this book for readers ages seven and up. Families are defined […]

The Tsunami and Other Disasters

By the Editors of Rethinking Schools

The Dec. 26 tsunami swept away the lives of more than 200,000 people and ravaged the livelihoods of millions more. Throughout the world teachers and students discussed the tsunami and […]

California’s Grassroots Grow

By Amalia Oulahan

Sacramento On Aug. 13, 2004, the California Supreme Court settled a historic case— Williams v. the State of California. The Williams decision validated the concerns of many Californians that the state had fallen […]

Book Review: Messing With Texas

Leaving Children Behind kicks up dust in the lone star state

By Wayne Au

Leaving Children Behind:  How “Texas-style” Accountability Fails Latino YouthEdited by Angela Valenzuela State University of New York Press, 2005  313 pp. $73.50 “Everything is bigger in Texas,” the saying goes. Apparently it’s true. […]

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