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
Volume 11, No.3
Spring 1997
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Gay Issues, Schools, and The Right-wing Backlash
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Border Tradition on the Line
Community Rallies Behind Mexican Students
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Hypocrisy Distorts The Standards Debate
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Clinton’s Educational Initiatives
High Expectations Also Should Apply to Governments, Not Just Students
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Lessons from England
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Race, Power, and Funding
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Black Teachers on Teaching
"Rethinking Schools is pleased to present excerpts from the new book, Black Teachers on Teaching, by Michele Foster."
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More is Not Better
Challenging a Sacred Cow of American Education
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How Society Short-Changes Young Children
Questioning the Practice of making Elementary Schools Do With Less
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The New NEA: Reinventing Teacher Unions for a New Era
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Helping Students Critique Miss Saigon’s Stereotypes
Volume 11, No.2
Winter 1996/1997
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Tender Warriors
The Dilemma of ‘Inherent’ Inequality and the Personal Toll of Integration
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Student Voices
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Equal Opportunity and the Federal Role in Education
A Response to the Conservative Attack
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Arranged Marriages, Rearranged Ideas
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Equity, Not Abandonment, Should Drive Federal Policy
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Welfare ‘Reforms’ Threaten Children
Struggles Shift to Local Level as Washington Ducks Responsibility
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Writing ‘Essays with an Attitude’
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Teaching the Whole Story
One School’s Struggle Toward Gay and Lesbian Inclusion
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Students Walk Out Over Anti-Gay Resolution
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Preaching Ain’t Teaching
Sex Education and America’s New Puritans
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A Review of Sexuality, Commitment and Family
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Reader Commentary: Progressives Should Support Charter Public Schools
