The Classroom to Prison Pipeline
A master teacher faces a classroom revolt. She realizes that, no matter how imminent the high-stakes test, stopping the school-to-prison pipeline begins in the classroom with student-centered, meaningful curriculum.
High School
Haniyah’s Story
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Teaching Haniyah
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Chicago’s Peace Warriors
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Teaching the Prison Industrial Complex
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Got Coal?
Students play a game promoted by the coal industry, then dig beneath the surface to look at the realities of mountaintop removal mining.
Coal at the Movies
Video resources for the classroom, plus links to activist websites.
Science for the People
Ninth graders develop science literacy as they become neighborhood environmental experts and activists.
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.
Textbook Scripts, Student Lives
Textbooks
Taking A Chance With Words
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Public Studies Puncture the Privatization Bubble
Two studies refute the claims made by voucher advocates: private schools are better than public ones, and competition makes public schools better.
Pressuring the Gap
Ohio attempts to close achievement gap by focusing on 9th-grade males
Beyond Anthologies
A veteran teacher laments the trend toward mandated curriculum and argues that teachers should choose materials that address students’ lives and social issues.
Acting In and On the World
Oregon students and teachers learn life lessons by participating in the ‘Theater of the Oppressed’.
Language Lessons
Using native Spanish speakers to instruct their classmates in more than just verbs and pronunciation.
Edwina Left Behind
Edwina did what was asked of her. Did Alaska do everything it could for her?
Can’t Buy Me Love
Linda Christensen gets students to write critically about clothes, class, and consumption.
Raised by Women
Building classroom relationships through poetry.
On the Question of Mexicanidad
Encouraging prospective teachers to examine their cultural heritage.
Test Prep and the War
Preparing high schoolers for the Regents exam while studying the War in Iraq.
‘Use Another Word’
One school’s campaign against put-downs.
Lies My Spanish Textbooks Tell
Latinos dance, they sing, they happily play baseball. And what great food!
My Small School Journey
An Oakland teacher experiences the negative effects of small school reform in the midst of a budget crisis.