Editorial: Standing Up for Immigrant Students
Hardworking students should be able to realize their dreams of higher education.
Understanding the DREAM Act
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Special Education in Milwaukee Schools
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Good Stuff 18.2
A History of Bombing, by Sven Lindqvist (New York: The New Press, 2000), 224 pp. $16.95. Teaching with Fire: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Teach, Eds. Sam Intrator and […]
Our picks for books, videos, websites, and other social justice resources 18.2
Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.
Reviews 18.2
Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.
Short Stuff 18.2
Feds Fund Voucher Support People for the American Way, a public policy watchdog organization, has uncovered a number of grants from the U.S. Department of Education to pro-voucher organizations. In […]
Teaching About Toxins
A Rethinking Schools editor explores the environment’s effects on her students’ health in the classroom.
Action Education: Artist Takes Stand for Peace
Q & A with Mary K. McNeill
Do or Die Land
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Special Ed, Charters and Vouchers
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Action Education: Conferences & Events
Reading the World VI Conference Celebrating Multicultural LiteratureSaturday, March 13 through Sunday, March 14, 2004; University of San Francisco, San Francisco. Contact Barbara Hood at 415-422-6878 for more information. White […]
Action Education: Immigrant Students Demand Higher Education
Brenda wants a chance to go to college. Now a junior at Horlick High School in Racine, Wis., she has lived in the United States since she was six years […]
Action Education: Juvenile Death Penalty Initiative
The United States is one of only seven countries in the world that still permit state-sanctioned juvenile executions. The Juvenile Death Penalty Initiative (JDPI), a coalition based at the University […]
What If AYP Applied to Income Inequality?
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Getting the Lead Out
Students, toxins and environmental racism
Lead poisoning is affecting up to 300,000 students a year in our nation’s classrooms.
Response
A response to Linda Christensen’s article The Politics of Correction.”
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 and multicultural education at Berkley High
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
Fourth graders get fired up about Pottery Barn's gender stereotypes
A unit on gender stereotypes inspires students to take action.
Stealth Recruiting
NCLB’s provisions give military recruiters access to student contact information
See You When We Get There
Young teachers of color working for change
Profiling an African American teacher on Chicago’s south side.
Dressing Up
A principal deals with a student’s unusual request.
It’s a Good Thing
Rather than demanding their students "be good," teachers can use class meetings to help students express values –both inside and outside the classroom
Teachers can help students express values both in and outside of the classroom.
