Peterson Elected Head of Milwaukee Teachers’ Union Bob Peterson, a founding editor and board president of Rethinking Schools, was recently elected president of the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association, capping a campaign waged in the midst of occupations, sick-outs, legislative recall campaigns, and constant mobilizations in the city and across the state. “I want to help […]
Someone sent me the link to Melissa Bollow Tempel’s “It’s OK to Be Neither” (Fall 2011). I just wanted to tell you I think what she’s doing is absolutely wonderful and there are many people out there who agree. I am a transgender guy myself. I was quite a gender-variant kid and I was lucky […]
Resistance to Mayoral Control in Milwaukee Milwaukee activists have organized the largest coalition on education issues since the desegregation struggles of the late 1970s: the Milwaukee Coalition to Stop the MPS Takeover. The coalition is a response to the August 2009 announcement by Wisconsin’s Democratic Governor James Doyle and Milwaukee’s Democratic Mayor Tom Barrett that […]
March 4 Protests to Defend Public Education Students and teachers in at least 32 states and as far away as South Africa participated in a March 4 Day of Action to protest cutbacks, higher student fees, and the privatization of education. Estimates as high as the hundreds of thousands made this the largest coordinated student […]
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Asian American Curriculum Projects; www.asianamericanbooks.com. 83 W. 37th Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403. 800-874-2242; fax: (650)357-6908.e-mail: aacpinc@best.com. An extensive catalog of resources and services that underscore the importance and diversity of the Asian-American experience. Books for students of all ages. Center For Media Literacy. www.medialit.org. 4727 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 403, Los Angeles, CA 90010. 800-226-9494;fax: 213-931-4474. e-mail; cml@medialit.org. A […]
The prices below are current as of Spring 2001, and in most instances apply only to individual purchasers from the Teaching for Change catalog, www.teachingforchange.org. Institutional purchasers should contact the distributors, if listed. All starred resources [*] are available from the Teaching for Change catalog, www.teachingforchange.org; 800-763-9131. *Act of War: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation, by Puhipau […]
All starred resources [*] are available from the Teaching for Change catalog, www.teachingforchange.org; 800-763-9131. América Is Her Name, by Luis RodrÍguez, illus. by Carlos Vásquez. Simultaneously published in a Spanish edition, La Llaman América, trans. by Tino Villanueva. Willimantic, CT: Curbstone, 1998. These books are the first children’s picture books to be published by Curbstone, which has long published […]
All starred resources [*] are available from the Teaching for Change catalog, www.teachingforchange.org; 800-763-9131. *Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education, Sonia Nieto. White Plains, NY: Longman, 1996, second edition. Of the scores of books on multicultural education, Nieto’s is one worth reading. The central message of this 422-page book is that multicultural education is essential […]
