Students Walk Out Over Anti-Gay Resolution
Students protest in Elizabethtown, PA.
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Preaching Ain’t Teaching
An examination of “abstinence-only” sex education programs casts doubt on whether they really encourage students to postpone sexual activity.
Madison Students Protest Sale of Pizza Hut at School
In an act of international solidarity, students protested the sale of Pizza Hut pizza in their school cafeteria.
Creating Fiction and Mapping Morality
The stories in A Call to Character, ed. by Colin Greer and Herbert Kohl, are a progressive answer to William Bennett’s Book of Virtues and a wonderful source of teaching ideas.
What Is the Purpose of Assessment?
A coalition of education and civil rights groups proposes a system of assessment that is fundamentally different from the typical standardized testing.
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An awarding winning poet and author discusses how schools and communities help some kids succeed while letting other kids fail.
The Role of Whites in Combating Racism
The Black experience and white racism are central to American life. No teacher can afford to view them as just an old curiosity.
Why the Wisconsin Legislature Approved Vouchers for Religious Schools
Mordecai Lee, vice-chairman of a coalition opposed to vouchers for religious schools (and a former state senator), analyzes the reasons his side lost this battle.
Problems Escalate at Voucher Schools
Financial difficulties, including nonpayment of teachers, plague four Milwaukee voucher schools.
Gay Youth Groups Proliferate
Across the country, support for gay and lesbian student groups is growing.
Schools Should Not Prepare Students for Work
Should schools collude in preparing students to endure the boredom of doing the meaningless, small, and repetitive tasks known as work?
Louis Gerstner’s Double Standards
At the national education summit, IBM chief Louis Gerstner behaved as the self-proclaimed pope of education. Not long before, he was chief executive of a cigarette company.
Navigating the World of Portfolios
How one teacher uses portfolios and self-assessment activities in his second-grade classroom.
Moving Beyond Name Games
As conservatives attack the National Standards for U.S. History for being insufficiently Eurocentric and insufficiently patriotic, students and teachers lose out.
Students Must Be Involved in Setting Standards and Goals
National performance goals and a national curriculum won’t work. A professor of education considers the reasons.
Michael, the Student Who Inspired Me to Quit Teaching
A teacher watches and learns as a potential dropout becomes an active learner.
Ed-Web: Africa-Descended Culture on the Web
A goldmine of resources about the history, literature, and culture of people of African descent
Bibliography on Homelessness
Books and curriculum resources for teaching about homelessness and housing for kindergarten through high school.
An Invitation to Join NCEA
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An International Proverbs Project
Spanish-English bilingual students use computer networks to explore together the proverbs and folklore of their cultures.
Whites Get a Pass on Race Issues
The media free white people of responsibility for working to cross the racial divide. No pollster ever asked, “Is David Duke a good role model for white youth?”
Dumb Kids, Smart Kids, and Social Class
A teacher recalls his own experience of sixth grade along with the ways schools reinforce and legitimate social inequities.
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Kate Lyman teaches her second-graders about a difficult subject and provides a bibliography of books for children about AIDS.
We Had Set Ourselves Free
The experience of those whose everyday lives intersected with the Civil Rights Movement is a rich source for teaching about that era.
Conservatives Attack NEA over Gay Issues
The right-wing group Concerned Women of America claims the NEA is forcing a pro-homosexual program on children.