Editorial: Teaching Against the Lies
Teachers need to equip their students to think critically about our government’s policies. It’s a matter of life and death.
Taming the Beast
It's not just a question of full funding; NCLB is a set-up
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
Department of Ed funds flow to privatizers and voucher supporters
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 resisting of schooling-as-usual
Advice for new teachers on how to survive their first years.
Privatization, English Style
An Interview With Richard Hatcher By Bob Peterson
An interview with Richard Hatcher, who’s been involved in decades of struggle for equal education in England.
Brown Doll, White Doll
Partner poems help students talk back to stereotypes
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
An elementary school club helps students explore the roots of hunger
Lessons on hunger and who is afflicted by it.
Confronting Child Labor
An elementary teacher discovers that her students' best work emerges from a unit on child labor
Students look beyond designer labels and examine the international oppression of workers
Teachers Tour U.S.-Mexico Border
A look at education activism around the country.
