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Resources 20.3
Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.
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Good Stuff 20.3
For years, beginning in the 1960s, the only source I read that had a radical, intelligent, school-based, and sophisticated analysis of public education was the Canadian magazine This Magazine Is About […]
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Letters to the Editors 20.3
Clear and Present Danger Tom Mooney’s comment that “it’s absolutely pointless to be knee-jerk anti-testing” (“An Interview with Tom Mooney,” Volume 20, No. 2) raises a host of questions — […]
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From the Archives
A selection of articles from Rethinking School’s past 20 years.
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Editorial: It Was 20 Years Ago Today
We launched Rethinking Schools during the Reagan era. A lot has changed since then, and much has stayed the same.
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Thoughts on the 20th Anniversary of Rethinking Schools
The noted educator says Rethinking Schools has become far more than a newspaper: It is a movement.
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From Tourist Hawaii to the 20th Anniversary
Lessons from Rethinking Schools
A current RS editor explores the important role Rethinking Schools has played in my life and the powerful model Rethinking Schools provides for teachers.”
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School Board Journeys
A Milwaukee school board member and former RS staffer reminds us that school board politics are personal.”
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Rethinking Teacher Unions
A film on Mexican teachers presents an activist, hopeful vision of unionism
What good are teacher unions? I joined the teachers union when I was a student teacher, though the union didn’t make it easy. Hardly anyone knew that student teachers could […]
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Dispatch from the Front Lines of the Voucher Wars
Lessons learned from 15 years of covering Milwaukee’s trendsetting school-voucher program.
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A Brief History of Milwaukee’s Voucher Program
Facts and figures that chart the program’s history.
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Pedagogy of the Absurd
There's an agenda behind the "reading wars" and it harms teachers and students
There’s an agenda behind the reading wars” and it harms teachers and students.”
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Defending Bilingual Education
English language learners come to school with a built-in opportunity to become bilingual. Schools should help them seize this opportunity.
Why schools should help English-language learners become truly bilingual.
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Silencing Teachers in an Era of Scripted Reading
This wrongheaded approach robs teachers of their professional judgment.
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Apologies to Sandra Cisneros
How ETS' computer-based writing assessment misses the mark
How ETS’ computer-based writing assessment misses the mark.
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Rats
Students take action to defend their classroom pets
Kids get engaged with school through a campaign to win back their classroom animals.
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Standing Up to Military Recruiters
The story of the Los Angeles Coalition Against Militarism in our Schools
The story of the Los Angeles Coalition Against Militarism in Our Schools.
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Excerpts from The Line Between Us
After numerous trips to the U.S.-Mexico border, a teacher helps students explore free trade” and immigration.”
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Reading Chilpancingo
The border” is not simply a wall
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Elementary Books with a Conscience
Books a fourth-grade teacher has used to help students explore the lives of immigrant children.
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Crossing Borders, Building Empathy
A 5th-grade teacher uses the short story First Crossing” to promote empathy for Mexicans entering the United States without documents.”
Volume 20, No.3
Spring 2006
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