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
Volume 13, No.4
Summer 1999
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Confronting Racism, Promoting Respect
A union program tackles a difficult topic
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Bilingual Education: New Visions for a New Era
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To Improve Bilingual Ed…
Rethinking Schools asked a number of people involved in bilingual education about the challenges facing bilingual programs. Following are excerpts from their answers.
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Coming Soon: The Son of Unz
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The Columbine Tragedy
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Milwaukee: Who Won and Why
The school board elections garnered national attention as a vote on vouchers. But in the end, the results had more to do with issues of race and power, and poor campaign decisions.
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High-Voltage Protest
Across the nation, parent and student protests are growing against the use of "high-stakes" tests. In a number of cases, the protests have arisen spontaneously after students and parents learned of not only the tests' content, but also of the use of a single standardized score to decide promotion or graduation. Some protests involve a handful of parents or students and others are organized districtwide or statewide.
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Badger-State Parent Power
Wisconsin parents are organizing against the state's 'no social promotions' tests. Politicians are taking notice.
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One Size Fits Few
Do the people developing state standards have any clue about kids - and why should we force Moby Dick down the throats of 15-year-olds?
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Standards and Multiculturalism 13.4
Multiculturalism is a search, a conversation to discover silenced perspectives. Yet standardization emphasizes one “fixed” answer.
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Yours, Mine, or Ours?
A high-school teacher struggles with issues of control and responsibility as he works with students on their literary magazine.
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Students
For public high school students involved in publishing newspapers or magazines at their schools, an understanding of court rulings on censorship is essential.
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Lessons from the Reading Wars
On both the academic and political fronts of the 'reading wars,' the real issues have been ignored or trivialized by the heated rhetoric of the movement
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Fiction Posing As Truth
A Critical Review of Ann Rinaldi's My Heart Is on the Ground: The diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl.
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Eyewitness Accounts
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Why Assess Teachers?
Throughout the United States, one hears the din of criticism of our educational system. A number of contradictory proposals to "fix" the schools are currently popular.
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ED WEB
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Making Prejudice Visible
No one ever wants to admit to being prejudiced. My students used surveys to help uncover discriminatory attitudes. The surveys hit close to home.
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Creating Student Surveys
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Research Shows Benefits of Small Classes
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Students Say ‘Enough!
Chicago high schoolers say they will no longer feed the test-talking frenzy.
