Volume 16, No.1

Fall 2001

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  • Schools More Separate

    Consequences of a decade of resegregation

    By Gary Orfield

    A special report on the growing segregation in U.S. schools despite an increasingly diverse student population. What will this mean for the fight for equal education opportunity?

  • Bamboozled by the Texas Miracle

    Texas is the model for President Bush's education agenda. As this Texas teacher warns, Watch out! Your classroom may never be the same.

    By Teddi Beam-Conroy

    Texas is the model for President Bush’s education agenda. Your classroom may never be the same.

  • Summer Camp’ for Teachers

    By S. J. Childs

    An innovative professional development project expands the literature canon and creates teacher experts.

  • Choice’ and Other White Lies

    We forget at our own peril that the voucher movement was, and remains, a movement that abandons public education rather than fights for the rights of all.

    By Makani N. Themba

    We forget, at our own peril, what was and remains a movement that abandons public education.

  • Voucher’s Money Man

    Without the millions of dollars guided into the voucher movement by conservative ideologue Michael Joyce, vouchers most likely would never have passed the Wisconsin legislature.

    By Barbara Miner

    Without the millions of dollars guided in vouchers by Michael Joyce, vouchers would most likely not exist in Wisconsin.

  • Fairness for First Graders

    Is first grade too young to teach about movements for justice? A beginning teacher makes an attempt.

    By Stephanie Walters

    Is first grade too young to teach about movements for justice? A beginning teacher makes an attempt.

  • Who Do We Hear?

    Language is power. And this is as true in the mathematics classroom as in the English classroom.

    By Jessie L. Auger

    Language is power, and this is as true in the mathematics classroom as in the English classroom.

  • Racism and Reparations

    The time has come for whites to acknowledge the legacy of nearly 250 years of slavery and almost 100 years of legalized segregation.

    By Manning Marable

    The time has come for whites to acknowledge the legacy of nearly 250 years of slavery and almost 100 years of legal segregation.

  • What We Want, What We Believe

    A teacher uses the Black Panther Party's Ten Point Program to prompt students to consider today's big issues.

    By Wayne Au

    A teacher uses the Black Panther’s Ten Point Program to prompt students to consider today’s big issues.

  • The Panther Party’s Ten Point Program

    1972 PLATFORM 1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black and oppressed communities.We believe that Black and oppressed people will not be free until […]

  • FOX TV Goes to High School

    'Boston Public' isn't so much a show about high school as it is a soap opera set in one.

    By Stan Karp

    ‘Boston Public’ isn’t so much a show about high school as it is a soap opera set in one.

  • The Three R’s

    Race, Reparations, and Responsibility

    The beginning of the 2001-2002 school year coincided with the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa. Despite the refusal of the United States to send a high-level delegation […]