Volume 16, No.4
Summer 2002
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Not All Inequality Bother Bush
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Philly Students Protest Edison
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Researching Presidents and Slavery
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Resources 16.4
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Shorts 16.4
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What the American Flag Stands For
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No Comment 16.4
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Vermont May Reject Federal Money
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Why Talk About White Privilege?
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Does Bilingual Ed Work?
It seems logical: if a student needs to learn English, put them in an English-language classroom. But research and experience underscore the importance of bilingual education.
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Let Them Eat Tests
Bush's new education bill ushers in a new era in the federal role in education — a conservative one that could hurt poor schools most.
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OBITUARY
Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which transformed the way languageminority children are taught in the United States - promoting equal access to the curriculum, training a generation of educators, and fostering achievement among students - expired quietly on Jan. 8, 2002. The law was 34 years old.
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Austin Says “No” to Edison
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Websites on Palestine and Isreal
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Many Thanks
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Rethinking Schools Listserv
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Linking With the World
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Student Handout: Salt of the Earth
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Jefferson and Slavery
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Coming Out
Volume 16, No.3
Spring 2002
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Supreme Court Debates Vouchers
Justices hear oral arguments in a case with broad implications not just for education but the separation of church and state and the very definition of public versus private in a democratic society.
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Voucher Schools Cash In
A Rethinking Schools investigative report on how a little-known accounting proovision allows Milwaukee voucher schools to reap extra millions of dollars.
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Exploring Women’s Rights
A first-grade teacher uses the 1908 Bread and Roses textile strike to help her young students understand International Women's Day.
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Stocks for Fun and Propaganda
In schools across the country, students take part in highly popular stock market simulation games. But beware. These games often teach the wrong lesson.
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Special Education
As Congress takes up reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, a key questions is whether it will fulfill its pledge to sufficiently fund special education services.
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The History of Special Education
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A View From the Other Side
Too often, school staff fail to see parents as allies. It doesn't have to be that way.
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What is an IEP?
Often shrouded in mystery, the EIP - Individual Education Program - details each special education student's needs and goals, and how the school will meet them.
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#Teachers Reject Testing Bribes”
Across California, a growing number of teachers are rejecting the financial incentives tied to scores on high-stakes tests.
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Testing Companies Go for the Gold
Testing is getting a big push from one important source, which gets little media coverage - the testing companies themselves.
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Defeating Despair
This month, Rethinking Schools publishes "Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World," edited by Bill Bigelow and Bob Petersen. This article is excerpted from the book's final chapter.
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For-Profits Target Education
Despite the high-sounding rhetoric of companies such as Edison, stock prices and profits - not improving education - are at the heart of the for-profit education movement.
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Edison’s Elusive Profits
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A letter from Kaeli
An art teacher helps first-grade students think about skin color and bias in children's picture books.
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Standards and Multiculturalism 16.3
Two noted educators discuss how the increasing reliance on textbooks and standardized tests undermines multicultural education.
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Anti-Racist Organizing in LA
Members of the Coalition for Educational Justice explain the multiracial group's origins, and its campaigns on issues such as high-stakes testing.
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Bush Backs Anti-gay Discrimination
New Federal education law witholds federal funds from schools that take a stance against the Boy Scouts.
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Activists to Gather in Milwaukee
National Coalition of Education Activists to hold biennial conference this July in Milwuakee.
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The Wounded Knee Massacre and Children’s Books
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From Coffee to Coca
A classroom friendly book helps students recognize how world trade affects our lives.
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A Book About Hope
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Special Ed
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Teach Justice!
A New Milwaukee Discussion Series
Volume 16, No.2
Winter 2001/2002
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High Court Takes Up Vouchers
U.S. Supreme Court to decide if Cleveland program, which provides public dollars for religious schools, violates the separation of church and state.
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With God On Their Side…
Christian fundamentalist textbooks make one thing clear: God is on the side of conservatives who adhere to a literal interpretation of the Bible.
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Teaching Religious Intolerance
Christian fundamentalist textbooks display a breathtakingly arrogant attitude toward other religions.
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“She’s For Real”
An eighth-grade teacher takes a deep breath, tells the truth, and comes out to her students.
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Where Can We See Ourselves?
An educator visits and analyzes museums with a group of high school students, who respond to what they see — and what they don't see — by designing and building their own exhibit.
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Edison Takes Aim at Philly
While the for-profit company is forced to back down on managing the district, it presses ahead with plans to run as many as 45 Philadelphis schools.
Volume 16, No.1
Fall 2001
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Schools More Separate
Consequences of a decade of resegregation
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Bamboozled by the Texas Miracle
Texas is the model for President Bush's education agenda. As this Texas teacher warns, Watch out! Your classroom may never be the same.
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Summer Camp’ for Teachers
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Choice’ and Other White Lies
We forget at our own peril that the voucher movement was, and remains, a movement that abandons public education rather than fights for the rights of all.
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Voucher’s Money Man
Without the millions of dollars guided into the voucher movement by conservative ideologue Michael Joyce, vouchers most likely would never have passed the Wisconsin legislature.
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Fairness for First Graders
Is first grade too young to teach about movements for justice? A beginning teacher makes an attempt.
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Who Do We Hear?
Language is power. And this is as true in the mathematics classroom as in the English classroom.
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Racism and Reparations
The time has come for whites to acknowledge the legacy of nearly 250 years of slavery and almost 100 years of legalized segregation.
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What We Want, What We Believe
A teacher uses the Black Panther Party's Ten Point Program to prompt students to consider today's big issues.
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The Panther Party’s Ten Point Program
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FOX TV Goes to High School
'Boston Public' isn't so much a show about high school as it is a soap opera set in one.
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The Three R’s
Race, Reparations, and Responsibility
