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Volume 24, No.2

Winter 2009/2010

Too often, students are taught to see reading in the narrowest sense, as an exercise in putting one word after the next and being ready to parrot back. Real reading is a conversation: We get excited, disgusted, confused, inspired—full of ideas and feelings we want to share. This issue of Rethinking Schools highlights approaches and resources for encouraging students toward deep involvement and critical thinking about literature.

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  • “Save the Muslim Girl!”

    Does popular young adult fiction about Muslim girls build understanding or reinforce stereotypes?

    By Elizabeth Marshall, Özlem Sensoy

    Does popular young adult fiction about Muslim girls build understanding or reinforce stereotypes?

  • “Baghdad Burning” Heats Up World History

    By Jody Sokolower

    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.

  • Reading by the Numbers

    By Susan Straight

    Does Accelerated Reading really promote a love of literature, or just a love of points? Harry Potter scores 44; Hamlet gets 7.

  • Beyond the Medal: Representations of Disability in Caldecott Winners

    By Chloë Myers-Hughes and Hank Bersani Jr.

    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.

    By Stephanie Jones

    Chapter books that portray working-class lives with sensitivity, humor, and respect.

  • Breaking the Silence on War

    By The Editors of Rethinking Schools

    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?

  • “I Thought This U.S. Place Was Supposed To Be About Freedom”

    Young Latinas engage in mathematics and social change to save their school

    By Maura Varley Gutierrez

    A 5th-grade math club contributes skills and determination to a community struggle to keep their school open.

  • Balance of Powers

    By Tess Brown

    Good teaching has a balance of powers: gut, heart, and brain.

  • Testing Kindergarten

    By Kelly McMahon

    You may not believe how many tests kindergartners take – and what they are missing as a result.

  • Portland to Palestine: A Student-to-Student Project Evokes Empathy and Curiosity

    By Ken Gadbow

    U.S. students talk directly with Palestinian youth and learn what it is like to live in a war zone.

  • Kalamazoo’s Promise: What Happens When All Students Are Guaranteed College

    By Stephanie Evergreen

    An exciting scholarship exposes racial tensions in a Michigan city.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Reclaiming Education for All of Us

    By William Ayers

    William Ayers reviews Why School? Reclaiming Education for All of Us by Mike Rose (The New Press, 2009)

  • Resources 24.2

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

  • Good Stuff 24.2 Sports and Society

    By Herb Kohl

    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 […]

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