Review: Our Dignity Can Defeat Anyone
By Julie Treick O’Neill A review of the film Maquilapolis [City of Factories]
Book Reviews
Kid Nation
CBS goes overboard with this painful exploitation of children.
Continent Ecology
Children’s books that promote environmental education in the primary grades.
Still Rethinking Our Classrooms
Rethinking Schools rolls out an updated and expanded version of our bestselling guide to teaching for social justice.
Film: Inspiration From Mexico’s Rank and File
Film: Granito de Arena (Grain of Sand) by director: Jill Friedberg, Corrugated Films, 2005, DVD. 60 min.
Book Review: Messing With Texas
Leaving Children Behind: How “Texas-style” Accountability Fails Latino YouthEdited by Angela Valenzuela State University of New York Press, 2005 313 pp. $73.50 “Everything is bigger in Texas,” the saying goes. Apparently it’s true. […]
“Who Made History? We Made History!”
Fred Glass reviews Eric Blanc’s Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics
Despite National Outrage, Scholastic Defends Children’s Books Celebrating Trump
After reviews and hundreds of letters, Scholastic continues to defend its books praising President Trump.
Beyond Magenta
“You have got to come out here and see this!” That’s how a transgender student was introduced to her homeroom teacher at a high school in my district. When I […]
Good Stuff 27.4
From the Dress-Up Corner to the Senior Prom:Navigating Gender and Sexuality Diversity in PreK–12 Schools By Jennifer Bryan(Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2012) I teach at a school that names social […]
Awareness of the Natural World
Publishers carefully manicure the list of books they publish, and slot them into categories by age as well as genre: young adult, beginning reader, adult romance, and so on. However, […]
SAT + ETS = $$$
A new book shows how the company behind the SAT has not only shaped American education but has turned a tidy profit.