A Test Scorer’s Lament
Scenes from the mad, mad, mad world of testing companies
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Teaching’s Revolving Door
New teachers leave the profession at an alarming rate —and there’s no single reason or easy solutions
Children As Guinea Pigs
Washington, D.C., bribes its students to perform
We Still Aren’t In a Post-Racial Society
Barack Obama’s election isn’t the end of racism
Hunger, Academic Success, and the Hard Bigotry of Indifference
Food insecurity and hunger are a serious threat to children’s lives
Documenting the Undocumented
When immigrant students count —and when they don’t
College for All?
Low-income students take the college admissions process into their own hands
The Square Root of a Fair Share
Lessons on school desks and dream homes
Introduction: Teacher Quality
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Rethinking MySpace
As an educator constantly searching for ways to use popular culture in my classroom
Childhood Is Dying
Iraq’s children have been more gravely affected by the U.S. occupation than any other segment of the population.”
Empire or Humanity?
The American Empire has always been a bipartisan project—Democrats and Republicans have taken turns extending it
Putting a Human Face on the Immigration Debate
For those of us working with immigrant populations, we have in our students living examples that we can use to bring the immigration issue to the forefront and teach all of our students.
An Open Letter to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund from the Association of Raza Educators
The Association of Raza Educators implores you: open your scholarships to all students of Hispanic descent regardless of citizenship.
Everything Flowers
I noted the biased curriculum… the absence of lessons on the Chicano movement or other aspects of my history and culture
Pump Up the Blowouts
This year is the 40th anniversary of the Chicana/o School Blowouts
An Incomplete Identity
A young teacher laments the lack of black mentors.
Peers, Power, and Privilege
The social worlds of a 2nd-grade classroom.
Whitewashing the Past
It’s time to rethink textbooks.
More Than a Statistic
Reflections on the black side of school discipline.
Which of the Above?
The election of ’08: another high-stakes standardized test.
Embracing a Vision of Social Justice in Early Childhood Education
The introduction to the new Rethinking Schools book Rethinking Early Childhood Education
Beyond NCLB
A new era requires new thinking
Teaching in Dystopia
The problem is this: Testing is killing education. Not only is it narrowing the curriculum generally
Reading First, Libraries Last
In these bleak NCLB days of regimented