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Standardizing Imperialism
A look at how California’s standards discourage students from looking critically at U.S. foreign policy, and implicitly teach imperialism.
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Measuring Water with Justice
A multidisciplinary lesson that explores water issues
A multidisciplinary lesson helps elementary students explore the economics, science, and politics of one of the world’s most precious resources.
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Sweatshop Accounting
A high school teacher shares lessons on economic justice with his business education students
A high school teacher shares lessons on economic justice with his business-education students.
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Editorial: A Nation at Risk
The Bush administration needs to be taken to task, both for the counterproductive and misnamed No Child Left Behind act and for the Iraq war, which threatens to siphon off more of our country’s resources and kill more of our students.
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The No Child Left Behind Test
Since today’s education policymakers seem to love this format, Rethinking Schools presents a multiple-choice test on NCLB that unlike most multiple choice tests, this one has some educational value.
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Leaving Children Behind
At first glance this elementary school would make a great ad for the No Child Left Behind act. But beneath the orderly classrooms and good test scores, the author senses great tension among the kids. At recess, students share insights about what NCLB is doing to them, and what makes school meaningful.
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No Child Left Untested: The NCLB Zone
Where "highly qualified" can mean low-quality teaching
Au takes a trip to a strange world — this one, unfortunately — where “highly qualified” can mean low-quality teaching.”
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Voucher Supporters Attack Kerry
Why are pro-voucher organizations running anti-Kerry ads in African-American communities in swing states?
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Making History
John Kerry speaks out on Vietnam, 1971
John Kerry’s groundbreaking 1971 speech against the Vietnam War can be a useful teaching tool.
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Poetry
A middle-school teacher shares her reaction to the underperforming” label.”
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Blowing the Whistle on The Texas Miracle
An Interview with Robert Kimball by Catherine Capellaro
Rethinking Schools’ managing editor interviews the man who shined a spotlight on the dropout scandal in Houston. A former dropout himself, Kimball describes the retaliation he has suffered for poking holes in empty education reforms, and describes his continuing battle against institutional racism in education.
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Student Voices 19.1
The next generation of soldiers?
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The Power of First-Person
Most educational writing is done in the abstract third person, as if there were no writer present. But the authors of two new books, I Am a Pencil and The Big Picture, write […]
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Action Education: Rethinking Schools Lauded for Post 9-11 Curriculum
Rethinking Schools founder and editor Bob Peterson traveled to Washington, D.C. recently to receive an award for innovative approaches to teaching material related to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. “Our […]
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Action Education: Chicago Social Justice Curriculum Fair
Hundreds of teachers will gather in Chicago on Saturday, November 20 to share teaching ideas, lessons, and resources on teaching for social justice. This 4th annual social justice curriculum fair […]
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Action Education: On The Front Line in Minnesota’s Social Studies War
In early September 2003, the Minnesota Department of Education released a first draft of new K-12 social studies standards for public comment. As a parent and former social studies teacher, […]
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NCLB Petition Grows
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Q/A – My students don’t bring back their homework. Should I keep assigning it?
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Q/A – I hate the textbook I’ve been given to use. What do I do?
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Q/A – What Do I Do When I Realize I’ve Made a Mistake With a Child?
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Left Behind?
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Picture Perfect
A perfect prompt for talking about images of women in the media
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Supersize Me
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Sample of Proposed Standards
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Sources/References for The NCLB Test
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Voices From The Classoom — Some Samples
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The New Teacher Book: Where We Might Begin
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The New Teacher Book: How to Teach Controversial Content and Not Get Fired
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Dialogue Poem
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Teaching Ideas: Antiwar Speech
Student activities for use with John Kerry's 1971 speech against the Vietnam War.
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Volume 19, No.1
Fall 2004
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