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The Tougher Standards Fad Hits Home
Invoking “accountability” and “competitiveness” to justify homework
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Educational Land Grab
For predatory disaster capitalists
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Dismantling a Community
In Katrina’s wake, a baffling array of school systems has been created. A timeline compiled by Leigh Dingerson, the Center for Community Change
A timeline compiled by Leigh Dingerson, the Center for Community Change
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Voices from the Big Uneasy
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Hurricane Katrina
Reading injustice, celebrating solidarity
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Solidarity Not Charity
An interview with Shakoor Aljuwani of the Common Ground Collective
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It Is About All of Us
A union leader speaks out against the injustice in New Orleans
Excerpts from a speech by the president of United Teachers of New Orleans.
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Into the Flood and Out Again
A year in the life of a New Orleans schoolteacher
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Exploding the Privatization Myth
Charter and private schools are no better than public schools and sometimes worse
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Socrates, Plato, Eric and Guys Like Me
Remembering Eric Rofes (1954~2006)
Remembering educator and activist Eric Rofes (1954~2006).
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Overhauling NCLB
It’s time to mobilize for an education law that actually improves schools
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Deepening Democracy
How one school’s fairness committee offers an alternative to “discipline”
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Fear of History
Florida’s new law undermines critical thinking
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Bringing Globalization Home
A high school teacher helps immigrant students draw on their own expertise
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Rethinking School Readiness
An entire community comes together to discuss how to make schools work for children
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Rethinking Teacher Unions
A lot has changed in the 20 years since Rethinking Schools was born
RS has always pushed unions to transform schools, and themselves.
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Resources 21.1
Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.
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Reviews 21.1
Books Hip-Hop Comes of Age Can’t Stop Won’t Stop:A History of the Hip Hop GenerationBy Jeff Chang(St. Martin’s Press, 2005)546 pp. $27.95 Angry Black White Boy,Or the Miscegenation of Macon […]
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Help
Josh Langworthy, a junior at Grant High School in Portland, Oregon, wrote the following essay about his “every day hero” during our Katrina unit. In addition to paying tribute to a woman who deserves it, Josh’s story also provides lessons for teachers. Who are the students in our classrooms? What are their stories? As much as NCLB would like to turn students into test scores, they arrive with a history that might help us teach them — and reach them — more effectively.
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To: My City
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Honoring Community
The following articles are from participants in the Students at the Center (SAC) program
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Does Anybody Know?
On Saturday, July 15, 2006, at about 1:00 p.m., dark clouds gathered and lightning and thunderbolts filled the New Orleans sky. One hour later the sky opened and dropped buckets […]
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Getting School Ready
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Good Stuff 21.1
Why Monkeys Live in Trees and Other Stories from BeninBy Raouf Mama(Curbstone Press, 2006)90 pp. $10.36 (paperback) Holding Values: What We Meanby Progressive EducationEdited by Brenda S. Engel and Anne […]
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Immigration Story
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Volume 21, No.1
Fall 2006
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