Volume 26, No.2

Winter 2011/2012

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  • Stop the School-to-Prison Pipeline

    By The Editors of Rethinking Schools

    “Every man in my family has been locked up. Most days I feel like it doesn’t matter what I do, how hard I try—that’s my fate, too.”—11th-grade African American student, […]

  • Schools and the New Jim Crow

    An interview with Michelle Alexander

    By Jody Sokolower

    The author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness applies her thought-provoking analysis to children, schools, and priorities for education activism.

  • Arresting Development

    Zero tolerance and the criminalization of children

    By Annette Fuentes

    The author of Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse reviews the history, impact, and future of zero tolerance policies.

  • The Classroom to Prison Pipeline

    By Linda Christensen

    A master teacher faces a classroom revolt. She realizes that, no matter how imminent the high-stakes test, stopping the school-to-prison pipeline begins in the classroom with student-centered, meaningful curriculum.

  • Haniyah’s Story

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  • Teaching Haniyah

    By Jody Sokolower

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  • Chicago’s Peace Warriors

    By Kazu Haga

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  • Teaching the Prison Industrial Complex

    By Aparna Lakshmi

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  • Candles in April

    By Jamila Appleby

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  • Plotting Inequalities, Building Resistance

    By Bridget Brew, Crystal Proctor, Adam Renner

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  • Who’s Crazy? Students Critique the The Gods Must Be Crazy

    By Chris Hawking, with Cresslyn Clay and Colin Pierce

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  • Short Stuff 26.2

    International Movement for Public Education Privatization, standardized tests, funding cuts, attacks on teachers’ unions and contracts—the issues that are central to teacher activism in the United States are international. In […]

  • Occupy Movement Spurs Education Activism

    “Banks got paid off, teachers got laid off” sounded through the streets of downtown Seattle as education activists and protesters from the Occupy Seattle movement marched on Chase Bank Oct. […]

  • Heroes or Cultural Icons? Of Thee I Sing : A Letter to My Daughters

    A critical review

    By Beverly Slapin

    Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My DaughtersBy Barack Obama Illustrated by Loren Long(Knopf, 2010) On the title page of President Barack Obama’s picture book, Of Thee I Sing: A […]

  • Ordinary Heroes

    By Waahida Tolbert-Mbatha

    A review of The Librarian of Basra by Jeanette Winter (Harcourt, 2004)

  • Our picks for books, videos, websites, and other social justice education resources 26.2

    Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.

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