Volume 20, No.1

Fall 2005

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  • The Shame of the Nation

    The restoration of apartheid schooling in America

    By JONATHAN KOZOL

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  • Reconstructing Race

    A teacher introduces his students to the slippery concept of race

    By Nathaniel W. Smith

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  • Teaching About Global Warming in Truck Country

    A middle school teacher helps the heirs of truck culture examine climate change

    By Jana Dean

    Helping kids who’ve grown up in the truck culture” examine climate change.

  • Rethinking Agatha Christie

    The strange and offensive history of Ten Little Indians

    By Sudie Hofmann

    The strange and offensive history of Ten Little Indians” (Hint: They weren’t always called “Indians.”)

  • Playing with Gender

    The staff at an early childhood center asks hard questions about gender identity

    By Ann Pelo

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  • Students Galvanize for Immigrant Rights

    A high school club in Wisconsin changes life for students, parents, and the larger community

    By Ryan Knudson and Al Levie

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  • Katrina’s Lessons

    It wasn’t just the hurricane that devastated the Gulf; it was also a slower, more preventable surge of racism and poverty.

  • Free-Market Education

    There’s no guarantee of quality in Milwaukee’s voucher schools

    By Barbara Miner

    Graphic evidence that school vouchers do not guarantee school quality in Milwaukee.

  • Christopher Columbus and the Iraq War

    By Bill Bigelow

    How the myth built up around Columbus has helped condition kids to accept imperial adventures like the Iraq war.

  • Film: Inspiration From Mexico’s Rank and File

    By Bob Peterson

    Film: Granito de Arena (Grain of Sand) by director: Jill Friedberg, Corrugated Films, 2005, DVD. 60 min.

  • Stand and Be Counter

    By Amalia Oulahan

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  • Film: More Than Just Dance Lessons

    By Terry Burant

    Mad Hot Ballroom Director/Producer: Marilyn AgreloWriter/Producer: Amy Sewellwww.paramountclassic.com/madhot/ Mad Hot Ballroom, a documentary about a fifth-grade ballroom dance program in New York City schools, is more than a feel-good summertime film. […]

  • An Unnatural Disaster

    By Bree Picower

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  • Draft Resolution to End Military Recruitment Abuse

    By Bill Bigelow

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  • War Is Fun as Hell

    The military goes to extraordinary lengths to find recruits

    By Sheldon Rampton

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  • KPSP

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  • Miscellany

    By The Editors of Rethinking Schools

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  • Resources 20.1

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

  • The Science Behind Climate Change

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  • Short Stuff 20.1

    NCLB Rebellion The state of Connecticut announced in August it is suing the U.S. government over the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law. State officials object to NCLB’s testing mandates, […]

  • We Don’t Need Another Soldier

    By Karl Meiner

    A former student returns from the Marines

  • Student Voices 20.1

    The next generation of soldiers?

    By Eliza Leas

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  • Books: It’s Still the Economy, Stupid…

    By Wayne Au

    Books:
    It’s Still the Economy, Stupid…

  • Teen Support for Iraq War Wanes

    By Karl Meiner

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  • Good Stuff 20.1

    By Herbert Kohl

    I am going to teach at Swarthmore College this academic year, and my wife and I are preparing to move. That means, among other things, I’m deciding what books to […]