Stocks for Fun and Propaganda
In schools across the country, students take part in stock market simulation games. But these games often teach the wrong lesson.
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Special Education
i As Congress takes up reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, a key question is whether it will fulfill its funding pledges.
The History of Special Education
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A View From the Other Side
Too often school staff fail to see parents as allies
What is an IEP?
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Testing Companies Go for the Gold
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For-Profits Target Education
Despite the high-sounding rhetoric of companies such as Edison, stock prices and profits – not education – are at the heart of privatization.
Edison’s Elusive Profits
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A letter from Kaeli
An art teacher helps first-grade students think about skin color and bias.
Anti-Racist Organizing in LA
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Bush Backs Anti-gay Discrimination
New federal education law withholds federal funds from schools that take a stance against the Boy Scouts.
Activists to Gather in Milwaukee
National Coalition of Education Activists to hold biennial conference this July in Milwaukee
The Wounded Knee Massacre and Children’s Books
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From Coffee to Coca
A classroom-friendly book helps students recognize how world trade affects our lives.
A Book About Hope
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Schools More Separate
A special report on the growing segregation in U.S. schools despite an increasingly diverse student population. What will this mean for the fight for equal education opportunity?
Bamboozled by the Texas Miracle
Texas is the model for President Bush’s education agenda. Your classroom may never be the same.
Summer Camp’ for Teachers
An innovative professional development project expands the literature canon and creates teacher experts.
Choice’ and Other White Lies
We forget, at our own peril, what was and remains a movement that abandons public education.
Voucher’s Money Man
Without the millions of dollars guided in vouchers by Michael Joyce, vouchers would most likely not exist in Wisconsin.
Fairness for First Graders
Is first grade too young to teach about movements for justice? A beginning teacher makes an attempt.
Who Do We Hear?
Language is power, and this is as true in the mathematics classroom as in the English classroom.
Racism and Reparations
The time has come for whites to acknowledge the legacy of nearly 250 years of slavery and almost 100 years of legal segregation.
The Panther Party’s Ten Point Program
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FOX TV Goes to High School
‘Boston Public’ isn’t so much a show about high school as it is a soap opera set in one.