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Of Mickey Mouse and Monopolies

The new book “Rich Media, Poor Democracy” explains how the media came to be dominated by a few mega-corporations – and what this means for democracy.

Producing Consumers Essay

A Rethinking Schools Student Assignment: suggested guidelines (with a checklist) for writing an essay about the video The Ad and the Ego

Standardardized Tests

Standardized tests #1 In 1950, Martin Luther King, Jr. took the Graduate Record Exam, a standardized test from the Educational Testing Service that is used in applying to graduate school. […]

Shorts 14.4

African American and Latino youth are treated far more harshly than white youths when facing the juvenile justice system, according to a new report

Learning from Ladakh

A video on a little-known culture prompts students to reconsider concepts such as “primitive” and “advanced.”

The Case of Cultural Destruction

The complete text of roles and role play guidelines for a trial on the destruction of Ladakhi culture, as described in Bill Bigelow’s article.

Ladakh Situations

Situations facing the Ladakhi people, as mentioned in Bill Bigelow’s article

For My People

Using Margaret Walker’s poem to help students ‘talk back’ to stereotypes and to affirm their self worth.

Radical Equations

Civil Rights veteran Robert Moses tells the story of the Algebra Project and the struggle to ensure math literacy for African Americans.

Haiku and Hiroshima

A high school teacher uses an animated film and haiku poetry to raise awareness about the dropping of atomic bombs in 1945.

Paper Cranes and Peace

An elementary school teacher uses the book “Sadako and the Thousand Cranes” to tell the story of Hiroshima and the horrors of war.”

Hooking up with Commercial-free Education

By now, anyone who uses the web has become used to the ads. What was once a commercial-free medium is now jammed with promotional banners and product advertisements that flood the screen with nearly every click of the mouse.

ED WEB

Homeworkcentral.com is a kind of one-stop convenience store for students who have assignments due tomorrow.

East Timor

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Civil Rights and Testing

Federal education policy is nominally focuses resources on the most needy. Thus the Title I program sends nearly $9 billion to schools with low-income children.

Taxes Worsen Education Gap

Federal education policy is nominally focuses resources on the most needy. Thus the Title I program sends nearly $9 billion to schools with low-income children.

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