Pedagogy of the Absurd
There’s an agenda behind the reading wars” and it harms teachers and students.”
Test Restricted Content
Defending Bilingual Education
Why schools should help English-language learners become truly bilingual.
Silencing Teachers in an Era of Scripted Reading
This wrongheaded approach robs teachers of their professional judgment.
Apologies to Sandra Cisneros
How ETS’ computer-based writing assessment misses the mark.
Rats
Kids get engaged with school through a campaign to win back their classroom animals.
Standing Up to Military Recruiters
The story of the Los Angeles Coalition Against Militarism in Our Schools.
Excerpts from The Line Between Us
After numerous trips to the U.S.-Mexico border, a teacher helps students explore free trade” and immigration.”
Reading Chilpancingo
The border” is not simply a wall
Elementary Books with a Conscience
Books a fourth-grade teacher has used to help students explore the lives of immigrant children.
Crossing Borders, Building Empathy
A 5th-grade teacher uses the short story First Crossing” to promote empathy for Mexicans entering the United States without documents.”
Feeding Our Future
In the heart of fertile farmland, why does a school serve kids such awful food? Thoughts on the dramatic shift in young people’s relationship to food and the land.
Don’t Bite the Hand That Feeds
Although it needs improvement, the federal school lunch program fills a need.
Fossil Food Consuming Our Future
Americans use more than three times as much energy to obtain food than they do to fuel their homes, writes Starrs: The implications of agricultural energy use for the environment are disturbing.”
There’s No Business Like Food Business
Students discover that food corporations keep secrets, and ask why?”
Home Cooking
Food connects us to our heritage and our homes. Getting students to write about food can make them feel at home
Sowing Seeds of Solidarity
Schools partner with a nonprofit to teach children and communities about the benefits of fresh, local food.
Linking the Land with the Lunchroom
A Look at a a program that brings fresh, locally produced foods into schools.
Teachers Teaching Teachers
In Portland, teachers work together to create teacher-centered professional development.
Cincinnati’s Teacher Union Tackles Quality
It’s difficult and complex work, but this city’s teacher quality initiatives are making a difference.
Conversations on Quality
One of the leading scholars of the education of African Americans says quality education means addressing issues like educational equity and true desegregation, and judging educational quality on a lot more than test scores.
Teacher Education Left Behind
How NCLB harms the preparation of new teachers.
Tips for Working with StudentTeachers
Practical advice for helping new educators find their feet in the real world of teaching.
Miles of Aisles of Sexism
Helping students investigate toy stores – where sex-role stereotypes and the “glory” of war are being sold to kids.
Teaching Brown in Tuscaloosa
How students were inspired by learning about their community’s civil rights history.
Lessons in Solidarity
A teacher recounts his own experience as a hospital worker, to show students the importance of people sticking together to make needed change.