Volume 26, No.2

Winter 2011/2012

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Stop the School-to-Prison Pipeline

By The Editors of Rethinking Schools

“Every man in my family has been locked up. Most days I feel like it doesn’t matter what I do, how hard I try—that’s my fate, too.”—11th-grade African American student, […]

Schools and the New Jim Crow

An interview with Michelle Alexander

By Jody Sokolower

The author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness applies her thought-provoking analysis to children, schools, and priorities for education activism.

Arresting Development

Zero tolerance and the criminalization of children

By Annette Fuentes

The author of Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse reviews the history, impact, and future of zero tolerance policies.

The Classroom to Prison Pipeline

By Linda Christensen

A master teacher faces a classroom revolt. She realizes that, no matter how imminent the high-stakes test, stopping the school-to-prison pipeline begins in the classroom with student-centered, meaningful curriculum.

Short Stuff 26.2

International Movement for Public Education Privatization, standardized tests, funding cuts, attacks on teachers’ unions and contracts—the issues that are central to teacher activism in the United States are international. In […]

Occupy Movement Spurs Education Activism

“Banks got paid off, teachers got laid off” sounded through the streets of downtown Seattle as education activists and protesters from the Occupy Seattle movement marched on Chase Bank Oct. […]

Ordinary Heroes

By Waahida Tolbert-Mbatha

A review of The Librarian of Basra by Jeanette Winter (Harcourt, 2004)

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