Volume 18, No.4

Editorial: Teaching Against the Lies

By the Editors of Rethinking Schools

Teachers need to equip their students to think critically about our government’s policies. It’s a matter of life and death.

Taming the Beast

It's not just a question of full funding; NCLB is a set-up

By Stan Karp

While Democrats and Republicans bicker about whether the No Child Left Behind act is funded at the right level, they’ve missed the point: Fully funding the law might make things worse.

Seed Money for Conservatives

Department of Ed funds flow to privatizers and voucher supporters

By Barbara Miner

Follow the money trail from the Department of Education to conservative, pro-privatization organizations.

Making Every Lesson Count

By Linda Christensen

Want to helping students learn to write? Get them writing about what they love.

Teaching in the Undertow

Advice for new teachers on resisting of schooling-as-usual

By Gregory Michie

Advice for new teachers on how to survive their first years.

Privatization, English Style

An Interview With Richard Hatcher By Bob Peterson

By Bob Peterson

An interview with Richard Hatcher, who’s been involved in decades of struggle for equal education in England.

Brown Doll, White Doll

Partner poems help students talk back to stereotypes

By Shwayla James and Heidi Tolentino

Fighting racial stereotypes with poems written for two voices.

Sticking It To the Man

By Wayne Au

Critiques of two recent movies that depict U.S. schools, School of Rock” and “The Perfect Score”.”

Beyond the Bake Sale

An elementary school club helps students explore the roots of hunger

By Terry Moore

Lessons on hunger and who is afflicted by it.

Confronting Child Labor

An elementary teacher discovers that her students' best work emerges from a unit on child labor

By Katharine Johnson

Students look beyond designer labels and examine the international oppression of workers

Teachers Tour U.S.-Mexico Border

By Barbara Miner, Bob Peterson

A look at education activism around the country.