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Good Stuff 17.3

Herbert Kohl

VOYAGING ACROSS CULTURES Caravan to America: Living Arts of the Silk Road, Major, John S. and Belanus, Betty J. (forward by Yo-Yo Ma). (Chicago: Cricket Books/A Marcato Book, 2002). Math […]

Ed Web 17.3

Stan Karp

IRAQJOURNAL.ORG This may turn out to be the web’s “first war.” During the Gulf War in 1991, it was 24-hour cable news coverage, especially from CNN, that became a factor […]

Does Anybody Know?

Katrena Jackson-Ndang

On Saturday, July 15, 2006, at about 1:00 p.m., dark clouds gathered and lightning and thunderbolts filled the New Orleans sky. One hour later the sky opened and dropped buckets […]

Coronavirus, Sick-Outs, and the Fight to Close New York City Schools

Jia Lee and Ronnie Almonte

New York City has become the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, and its public schools, which serve 1.1 million students and employ nearly 135,000 people, officially closed on March 17. […]

The Fight of Our Lives

Schools and the Pandemic

the editors of Rethinking Schools

This has been a year like no other. Fear. Illness and death. Trauma for our students, their families, their communities — and for us, as educators. We are becoming new teachers, […]

I Hate the Pandemic, but I’m Grateful to Be Rid of Grades

Mariela Tyler

I hate this pandemic. But, I am also humbled by the little bundle of destructive protein that has put our American way of doing things on pause. And kind of like […]

Talking to Young Children About COVID-19

Cassandra Tondreau

COVID-19 descended upon Seattle, seeping in like a fog first in small ways, then eventually in signals we couldn’t ignore. Stores were empty, hours at our early childhood center were […]

Showing Up for Our Students in the Pandemic

Moé Yonamine

“I just want to be done. Just tell me what I need to do and I’ll do it,” Haylee wrote to me in an email. A month after school closed on […]

My Grades Will Not Be Instruments of War

Howard Zinn (1922–2010)

How we grade students — or whether we grade students — has always been contested terrain. The pandemic has brought new attention to the politics of grading.  In the 1960s, […]

Wash Your Hands

Navigating Grief and Uncertainty in the Time of the Pandemic

Linda Christensen

I hadn’t ever planned to teach online, but the Saturday before our college campus closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, I decided to cancel our face-to-face class because one of the […]