Fairness First
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ruby Bridges help set the stage for learning about injustice.
Test Restricted Content
Kids Fight for Civil Rights
Two stories to inspire students.
Teaching Ideas
A few suggested discussion questions and activities.
Exploring Race Relations
A Mexican-American teacher tackles racial prejudice in her seventh-grade classroom.
Warriors Don’t Cry: Brown Comes to Little Rock
A role play exercise brings Melba Pattillo Beals’ classic book about the Little Rock Nine to life for students.
Warriors Don’t Cry: Acting for Justice
Teaching students how to navigate an unjust world — and how to change it.
Lesson Plan
A lesson on desegragation built on the landmark PBS television series.
Poetry: The Merry-Go-Round
With teaching ideas by Linda Christensen
Taming the Beast
While Democrats and Republicans bicker about whether the No Child Left Behind act is funded at the right level, they’ve missed the point: Fully funding the law might make things worse.
Seed Money for Conservatives
Follow the money trail from the Department of Education to conservative, pro-privatization organizations.
Making Every Lesson Count
Want to helping students learn to write? Get them writing about what they love.
Teaching in the Undertow
Advice for new teachers on how to survive their first years.
Privatization, English Style
An interview with Richard Hatcher, who’s been involved in decades of struggle for equal education in England.
Brown Doll, White Doll
Fighting racial stereotypes with poems written for two voices.
Sticking It To the Man
Critiques of two recent movies that depict U.S. schools, School of Rock” and “The Perfect Score”.”
Beyond the Bake Sale
Lessons on hunger and who is afflicted by it.
Vouchers
Charter and voucher schools are required to do very little to accommodate students with special needs.
Some Gaps Count More Than Others
Goals of equal test scores in NCLB are overshadowed by economic inequalities.
Losing Ground
Budget cuts threaten one of the nation’s best multicultural institutions.
Lessons from a Garden Spider
An ordinary spider assists a multilingual third-grade classroom.
Beyond Pink and Blue
A unit on gender stereotypes inspires students to take action.
Do or Die Land
A British parent confronts the realities of U.S. schooling
Stealth Recruiting
NCLB’s provisions give military recruiters access to student contact information
See You When We Get There
Profiling an African American teacher on Chicago’s south side.
Dressing Up
A principal deals with a student’s unusual request.