Tough Times Under Tommy
Wisconsin Budget Crisis Hits Children & Schools
The first kindergarten in the United States was founded in 1856 in Watertown, Wisconsin, and Milwaukee residents have traditionally benefitted from that legacy. Four-year-old kindergarten has been taken for granted […]
Unlearning the Myths that Bind Us
Students Examine Stereotypes in Children’s Stories and Films
I was nourished on the milk of American culture: I cleaned the dwarfs’ house and waited for Prince Charming to bring me life, I played Minnie Mouse to Mickey’s flower-bearing […]
Budget Cuts: Slicing and Dicing Children’s Futures
As school budget cuts sweep across the country, tens of thousands of parents and teachers are organizing to protect our children. While we confront this current crisis, we must also […]
Year in Review: A Rethinking Schools Analysis
Yellow ribbons still hang from school doors reminding us that the Gulf War was perhaps the most significant event this past school year. But we must not forget that some […]
Bush Plan: New Paint on an Old Jalopy
Bush Pushes Privatization of Education, National Testing
President George Bush has seized on the politically appealing but educationally disastrous concept of school “choice” as the centerpiece of an otherwise ho-hum education initiative. The initiative, announced with much […]
Educators Criticize National Tests
As educators, parents, and civil rights advocates, we strongly support improving assessment as part of school reform. However, we believe that most current efforts to establish a national test to […]
Budget Cuts Imperil Children
Across the Country, Schools Forced to do More With Less
School board members in Richmond, Calif., took drastic action in late April to resolve their budget problem. They filed for bankruptcy, made their last payroll, and sent a letter to […]
“And Then I Went to School”
Memories of a Pueblo Childhood
I lived with my grandmother when I was five through nine years of age. It was the early fifties when electricity had not yet entered our Pueblo homes. The village […]
New Global Map Presents Accurate View of the World
Recently a university professor asked his students to rank certain countries by size. Included in the list were France, Germany, Great Britain, Brazil, Italy and Japan. Overwhelmingly, Brazil was put […]
Rethinking the Curriculum
Educators grapple with the problems and potential of change
The Coalition of Essential Schools is a national coalition of schools pursuing progressive educational change. Organizers of the Coalition’s 1990 annual fall forum offered participants the option of working in […]
Reflections on African American Immersion Schools
In April, the 1954 Supreme Court decision which overturned “separate but equal” schools and led to the struggle to integrate public education was made into a heroic TV mini-series staring […]
