Volume 24, No.2
Winter 2009/2010
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“Save the Muslim Girl!”
Does popular young adult fiction about Muslim girls build understanding or reinforce stereotypes?
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“Baghdad Burning” Heats Up World History
It’s always a struggle to work current events into history classes. A blog by a young Iraqi woman about her day-to-day life in Baghdad provides an opportunity to connect the medieval Abbasid Empire to today’s news.
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Reading by the Numbers
Does Accelerated Reading really promote a love of literature, or just a love of points? Harry Potter scores 44; Hamlet gets 7.
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Beyond the Medal: Representations of Disability in Caldecott Winners
We often think of Caldecott books as the gold standard for picture books. Here the authors of 10 Quick Ways to Analyze Children’s Books for Ableism” look at what these prize-winning books tell young children about disability.
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Adding Salt to ‘Class’ Literature: Barbara O’Connor’s Books for Young Readers
Chapter books portray working-class lives with sensitivity, humor, and respect.
Chapter books that portray working-class lives with sensitivity, humor, and respect.
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Breaking the Silence on War
We are now in the ninth year of the U.S. war in Afghanistan and the seventh year of the current war in Iraq. In classrooms throughout the United States, as in the streets, there is little critical discussion of these events they have become part of the wallpaper of life. Why has this happened? How can we break the silence?
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“I Thought This U.S. Place Was Supposed To Be About Freedom”
Young Latinas engage in mathematics and social change to save their school
A 5th-grade math club contributes skills and determination to a community struggle to keep their school open.
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Balance of Powers
Good teaching has a balance of powers: gut, heart, and brain.
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Testing Kindergarten
You may not believe how many tests kindergartners take – and what they are missing as a result.
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Portland to Palestine: A Student-to-Student Project Evokes Empathy and Curiosity
U.S. students talk directly with Palestinian youth and learn what it is like to live in a war zone.
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Kalamazoo’s Promise: What Happens When All Students Are Guaranteed College
An exciting scholarship exposes racial tensions in a Michigan city.
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Letters to the Editors 24.2
“Teachable Moments” Short on Data? Imagine my surprise when a colleague passed on a copy of your publication (“Teachable Moments” Summer 2009) and I found myself reading an article that […]
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Short Stuff 24.2
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 […]
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Reclaiming Education for All of Us
William Ayers reviews Why School? Reclaiming Education for All of Us by Mike Rose (The New Press, 2009)
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Resources 24.2
Our picks for books, websites and other resources for social justice educators.
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Sports and Society
A People’s History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play By Dave Zirin(The New Press, 2008)302 pp. $18.95 Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading […]
