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An Interview with Tom Mooney
Tom Mooney
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Possible Questions for Toy Store Investigations
How are the aisles labeled? How do you know where the boys’ and girls’ sections are? Which sections are larger? What types of toys are in each section? List exact […]
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Resources 20.2
Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.
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Roles for Katrina Role Play
For the complete roles
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Questioning Scripted Curricula
Katherine Dorr, in her third year of teaching first graders in one of LA’s poorest schools, likens Center X to a tiny voice in a corner of her brain that […]
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Short Stuff 20.2
Quality in Texas In Texas, students in low-income schools are more likely to be taught by less experienced, poorly qualified teachers, according to a recent study by University of Texas […]
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Discussion and Writing Questions
What reaction do you have to the conditions that workers faced at Grady Hospital? What were the health and safety issues for the laundry workers? Why did the laundry workers […]
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Strange Stuff 20.2
Intelligent Revenge In early November, Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson said the people of Dover, Penn., might suffer for electing school board members who believe the teaching of “intelligent design” is […]
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Action Education: Getting in Touch 20.2
The movement for educational justice gains momentum as more educators and community members get involved. Here’s how to contact the organizations profiled in “Taking Teacher Quality into Their Own Hands.”
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All Roles Together
The Bush Administration The Indictment: You are responsible for the horrendous, barbaric conditions experienced by the peoples of Louisiana and surrounding states after Hurricane Katrina. It must be shouted, said loudly, […]
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Examples of Good Multicultural and Anti-Bias Literature
Teachers can use multicultural literature to teach about justice and fairness, anti-bias actions, and the cultures of the world. Some books do a beautiful job of stimulating interest without simplifying […]
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Cincinnati
Cincinnati’s teacher quality initiatives involve three separate but interrelated components: Peer Assistance and Evaluation, a 20-year-old program under which experienced teachers leave the classroom for three years to help evaluate […]
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Why Center X?
The following is excerpted from the Center X Mission Statement
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The Work, Not Just the Book
I read Walter Dean Myers’ latest book, Autobiography of My Dead Brother and was so taken by this tale about murder, the mean streets, and the power of music and art to […]
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Does Improved Teacher Quality Lead to Improved Student Learning?
Such a question is inherently tricky, in part because measures of student learning are multi-faceted and embrace not only academic questions but matters of social development and civic awareness. Union […]
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Letters 20.2
Segregation Then and Now The excerpt from Jonathan Kozol’s The Shame of the Nation (Volume 20, No. 1) was a passionate, effective indictment of the state of public education and the political, […]
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Suggested Recordings
These are the albums and individual tracks used in the lesson plan on the birth of rock and roll and the rise of popular youth culture.
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Introduction: Teacher Quality
No matter where we fall on the political spectrum, one point of agreement is that children deserve quality teachers. What becomes more contentious is how society defines “quality” teachers and […]
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Getting to the Heart of Quality Teaching
Catchy slogans, top-down mandates and shallow reforms won’t improve teacher quality. Real progress will only happen if teachers, parents, teacher unions and school and community leaders all play a role.
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Teacher Organizers Take Quality into Their Own Hands
Details on teacher-quality initiatives taking root around the country.
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Transforming Teacher Education
UCLA's Center Xsets out to help Los Angeles' struggling schools
UCLA’s Center Xsets out to help Los Angeles’ struggling schools.
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Conversations on Quality
An interview with Deborah Meier
The visionary school reformer discusses quality teaching, race and class, and the shortcomings of No Child Left Behind.
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Teachers Teaching Teachers
In Portland, teachers work together to create teacher-centered professional development
In Portland, teachers work together to create teacher-centered professional development.
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Cincinnati’s Teacher Union Tackles Quality
Despite complexities and shortcomings, the district's teacher quality initiatives are making a difference
It’s difficult and complex work, but this city’s teacher quality initiatives are making a difference.
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Conversations on Quality
An interview with Gloria Ladson-Billings
One of the leading scholars of the education of African Americans says quality education means addressing issues like educational equity and true desegregation, and judging educational quality on a lot more than test scores.
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Teacher Education Left Behind
How NCLB harms the preparation of new teachers
How NCLB harms the preparation of new teachers.
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Tips for Working with StudentTeachers
Practical advice for helping new educators find their feet in the real world of teaching.
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Miles of Aisles of Sexism
Helping students investigate toy stores
Helping students investigate toy stores – where sex-role stereotypes and the “glory” of war are being sold to kids.
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Teaching Brown in Tuscaloosa
Learning about their community's civil rights history inspires students to action
How students were inspired by learning about their community’s civil rights history.
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Lessons in Solidarity
Grady Hospital Laundry Workers United
A teacher recounts his own experience as a hospital worker, to show students the importance of people sticking together to make needed change.
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Exploring ‘Same’ and ‘Different’ in a Preschool World
Helping young students overcome bias and embrace diversity.
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Washin’ Away
A trial activity asks who's guilty for Katrina's horrors
A trial activity asks who’s guilty for Katrina’s horrors.
Volume 20, No.2
Winter 2005/2006
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