Volume 14, No.4
Summer 2000
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Is There Value in Value-Added Testing?
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Teaching In Dangerous Times
In this era of demands for teacher quality, it is crucial to develop culturally relevant ways to assess teachers.
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MPS Parents Protest Budget Cuts
MPS faces $32 million deficit and School Board fails to aggressively fight for more money.
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Walk on the Child’s Side
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The Case for Smaller Classes
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Voucher Backers Illegally Funnel Money
A suit by the State Elections Board of Wisconsin has accused voucher supporters of illegally funneling money into the Wisconsin Supreme Court campaign of Justice Jon Wilcox.
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Voucher School CEO Sentenced To Jail
A Milwaukee judge issued a rebuke to the voucher program before sentencing the CEO of a voucher school - who is also a convicted rapist - to six months in jail for tax fraud on an unrelated matter.
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Raising Children’s Cultural Voices
A third-grade teacher describes how she uses children's writing to expand cultural awareness and teach Spanish and English in a two-way bilingual program.
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Learning in Four Languages
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Kids Protest Tax on Books
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Students Protest Tests
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The Educational Costs of Standardization
More testing might sound nice as a policy soundbite. But as Texas shows, the move toward high-stakes tests shortchanges learning in the classroom.
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Dangers of Early Childhood Testing
As early as 1976 the Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI) called for a moratorium on standardized testing in the early schools years. A decade later, it strengthened its positions, saying: "We now believe firmly that no standardized testing should occur in preschool and K-2 years. Further we question the need to test every child in the remaining elementary years."
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Operation Bearlift
An elementary teacher, weary of gimmicks such as Gum Day and Hat Day, turns to social action to build classroom community.
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The Tea Party
A high school English teacher uses a "tea party" - in which students give brief previews of good books - to entice reluctant readers to read.
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When Schools Compete
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A Journey to Openness
An elementary principal tells of his journey from closeted teacher to openly gay administrator.
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Fed Up with Gay-Bashing
An 11-year-old student takes a stand against homophobic slurs.
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Defending Freedom of the Press
A middle school student organizes to defend a student newspaper.
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Students’ Rights
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Please – No More Magic Bullets!
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A Vision of School Reform
School reform debates are often long on rhetoric and short on substance, dominated by 30-second soundbites rather than thoughtful conversations.
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Shorts 14.4
Volume 14, No.3
Spring 2000
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For-Profit Firm On the Ropes
Tesseract can't even afford postage.
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Wisconsin Reports on Voucher Program
Program cannot document whether academic achievement is rising for participating students.
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Resisting Zero Tolerance
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First-Class Jails, Second-Class Schools
An interview with Jesse Jackson
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Zero Tolerance Unfair to Blacks
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Remembering Russell
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Bright’ Like Me?
What if we were to take seriously the idea that people can become smart?
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Standardized Minds
Book Review
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Behind the Testing Juggernaut
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High-Stakes Testing Slights Multiculturalism
Matthew Henson is out, Christopher Columbus is in.
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Chicago’s ‘No Social Promotion’ Under Attack
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Money Matters
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CASE Revealed, Case Closed
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Standards
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SAT + ETS = $$$
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The Charter Conundrum
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A Policeman’s Duty?
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Bilingual and Spanish-Language Websites
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Merit
Teachers Grapple with Yet Another Marketplace Reform
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Girls, Worms, And Body Image
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Neighborhood Schools
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Teaching About the WTO
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Teachers as Leaders
A look at an alternative to 'pay for performance,' one that addresses teacher quality but doesn't rely on test scores.
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Lessons from History
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Small Classes Versus Vouchers
Rethinking Schools Editorial
Volume 14, No.2
Winter 1999/2000
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Seventeen and Self-Image
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Masks of Global Exploitation
Teaching About Advertising and the Real World
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Advertising the Truth
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Producing Consumers Essay
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Channel One Enters the Media Literacy Movement
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Why I Said No to Coca-Cola
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Of Mickey Mouse and Monopolies
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Educators and the Fight for Public Media
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Editorial: Moving Beyond ‘Media Literacy
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Videos Mentioned In the Articles
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Websites on Media Literacy and Advertising
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Vouchers: Church/State Complexities
Two valuable concepts—public accountability and religious freedom—clash when public dollars go to religious schools.
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Legislation Calls for Access and Accountability
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A Visit to a Religious Elementary School
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Testing
A Report on the National Education Summit
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The Jobs of Tomorrow
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Report Looks at Public And Private Schools
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What Do We Need to Know Now?
"Race," Identity, Hegemony, and Education
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References and Selected Bibliography
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The Politics of Biological Determinism
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Sweet Learning
Life's most important lessons are rarely taught in school.
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Mi abuelita
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In My Father’s Kitchen
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Diseases Laud Kansas Decision
Volume 14, No.1
Fall 1999
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From Snarling Dogs to Bloody Sundays
Teaching Past the Platitudes of the Civil Rights Movement
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Children Who Made a Difference
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Selected Resources
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An Untold Story of Resistance
African-American Educators and IQ Testing in the 1920's and '30's
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Vouchers and Public Accountability
Public schools face increasing scrutiny while private voucher schools are allowed to operate with almost no oversight. Why the double standard?
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Why the Secrecy?
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Problems Erupt in Cleveland
Concerns over safety hazards, unlicensed teachers, and reliance on video for instruction.
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Forward…Into the Past
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No’ Is the Right Answer
A high school student explains why she refused to take her state-mandated Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment Test
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Rethinking Discipline
What are we teaching our students when discipline policies are reduced to punitive measures grounded in coercion, control, and compliance?
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Moving Beyond Tired
For many teachers, a video is far more appealing on a Friday night than a pot luck meeting. What keeps teacher activists going?
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Networking, Organizing, and Resisting
Portland-area teachers' group takes on issues ranging from standardized tests to teaching about globalization
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Teaching the Word—And the World
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East Timor
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Edison Loses Millions – Again
Edison Schools Inc., which ultimately will live or die at the hands of Wall Street, not the school boards of America, is not faring well financially.
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We Object to These Tests
Parents explain why they think the standardized tests in Massachusetts do more harm than good
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Tips for New Groups
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California Lawsuit Notes Unequal Access to AP Courses
The State of California is denying its low-income and minority students equal access to education by depriving them of the Advanced Placement (AP) classes available in more affluent, suburban high schools, according to a recent lawsuit.
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AP Disparity in The Milwaukee Area
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Introduction: Zapatista Movement
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Our Struggle is…
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An Education that Turns Night into Morning
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Putting Muscle into the Meaning of Solidarity
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Resources on Chiapas
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Our Communities Are Very Poor…
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Videos with a Global Conscience
From East Timor to sweatshops, global issues have assumed pressing importance. These videos can bring the issues home to U.S. classrooms
