Volume 12, No.3
Spring 1998
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California Referendum Mandates ‘English-Only’
June 2 Vote Could Set National Precedent
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Number of Language-Minority Students Skyrockets
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History of Bilingual Education
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Resources on the Unz Initiative
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Reading, Writing, and Censorship
When Reading Good Books Can Get Schools In Trouble: First of Two Articles
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Frequently Challenged Books
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Is Teaching ‘La Causa’ Grounds for Firing?
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Know the Law
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Resources on Censorship
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MPS: Is This the Dark Before the Dawn?
A Rethinking Schools Editorial
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Motivating Students To Do Quality Work
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Ten Chairs of Inequality
A Classroom Simulation on the Distribution of Wealth
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The Discipline of Hope
Lessons from a Lifetime of Teaching and Learning
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Mississippi Freedom Schools
A Project from the Past Suggests a Lesson for the Future
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Neighborhood Schools, Busing, and the Struggle for Equality
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Wisconsin Experiments with Smaller Classes
Pilot Project Shows Promise in Early Grades
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Milwaukee: Will Top-Down or Community-Based Reform Prevail?
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Black Ministers’ Reform Plan
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Who’s Who in MPS Reform
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States Get Failing Grade in Assessment
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Tests and Standards: Will the Carrot or Stick Win Out?
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ZOOBS: A Challenge for the Hand and Mind
Volume 12, No.2
Winter 1997/1998
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The Criminalization of Youth
Politicans Promote Lock-"Em-Up Mentality
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The Evolution Of Creationism
Right-Wing Zealots Attack Science
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Creationists Push Pseudo-Science Text
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One Town’s Battle Over Creationism
Controversy Strikes the Louisville, Ohio Schools
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What’s a Teacher To Do?
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Resources on Evolution And Creationism
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Canadian Teachers Strike
More than 125,000 walk out over conservative legilsation
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MPS Admissions Policy Rewards Privilege
A Rethinking Schools Editorial
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‘You Gotta Be Hard’
A Teacher Reflects on Kids and Gangs
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Banned in Jersey, Welcomed on Broadway
Students Learn Unexpected Lessons from their Play on Sweatshops
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‘And Ya Don’t Stop’
Using Hip Hop in the Language Arts Classroom
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Digging in the Crates
Hip Hop in Teaching — A Resource List
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‘Let Your Motto Be Resistance’
The Real Lesson of Amistad
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What Happened to Local Control?
Education Reform as a Way to Help Build Community
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Where I’m From
INVITING STUDENT LIVES INTO THE CLASSROOM
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Protests Target Sweatshop Labor
Students Play Strong Role in Worldwide Actions
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A Must Buy and a Good Tale
Volume 12, No.1
Fall 1997
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The Real Ebonics Debate
Power, Language, and the Education of African-American Children
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An Introduction from The Guest Editors
Theresa Perry and Lisa Delpit
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I ‘on Know why They be Trippin
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Ebonics and Culturally Responsive Instruction
What Should Teachers Do?
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Black English/Ebonics: What It Be Like?
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If Ebonics Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?
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Holding On To A Language of Our Own
An Interview with Linguist John Rickford
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What is Black English? What is Ebonics?
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If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?
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Ebonics: Myths and Realities
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Embracing Ebonics and Teaching Standard English
An interview with Oakland teacher Carrie Secret
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Literature from Children’s Roots
Kitchen Poets and Classroom Books
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Teaching Teachers About Black Communications
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Removing the Mask
Roots of Oppression Through Omission
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The Oakland Ebonics Resolution
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Recommendations of the Task Force on Educating African-American Students
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What is the Standard English Proficiency Program?
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Oakland Superintendent Responds to Critics of the Ebonics Policy
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Linguistic Society of America’s Resolution on Ebonics
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Opening Pandora’s Box
An Interview with Oakland School Board Member Toni Cook
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An Oakland Student Speaks Out
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Official Language; Unofficial Reality
Acquiring Bilingual/Bicultural Fluency in A Segregated Southern Community
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Black English: Steppin Up? Lookin Back
Volume 11, No.4
Summer 1997
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The Human Lives Behind the Labels
The Global Sweatshop, Nike, and the race to the bottom
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Facts on the Global Sweatshop
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Global Sweatshop Handout
This is the handout given to students for the global sweatshop final project.
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Global Sweatshop Resources
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Taking Action Against Disney
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Children Can Be Active Citizens of the World
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We Need a New Vision of Teacher Unionism
It's not unusual for harsh words to be exchanged among union members but what happened this spring is extraordinary.
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Teacher Unionism
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NEA President Bob Chase Responds to His Critics
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Standards and Funding
Putting Resources Where the Promises Are
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How Our Schools Could Be
Standards, Top-Down Mandates, and Grass-Roots Communities
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The Loss of Paulo Freire, 1921-1997
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Splits Widen Within Wisconsin Voucher Movement
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Two Powerful Films on Racism
