About Those Tests I Gave You …
A middle school language arts teacher apologizes to her students for the states narrow and deceptive standardized test.
Reflections
Testing Our Limits
First graders, three at a time, use classroom computers to take standardized tests. Their teacher explains the impact on the students and herself.
Haniyah’s Story
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Teaching Haniyah
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Candles in April
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Keepers of the Second Throat
When Chicago stole my mother’s tongue, it also stole all her yesterdays. A poet’s lyric plea for teachers to nurture their students voices and stories.
Fuzzy Math
A middle school writing teacher reflects on a day spent scoring districtwide math tests.
Support That Can’t Support
Are peer mentoring programs bowing to the pressure to teach to the test?
Childhood Is Dying
Iraq’s children have been more gravely affected by the U.S. occupation than any other segment of the population.”
Empire or Humanity?
The American Empire has always been a bipartisan project—Democrats and Republicans have taken turns extending it
Everything Flowers
I noted the biased curriculum… the absence of lessons on the Chicano movement or other aspects of my history and culture
Pump Up the Blowouts
This year is the 40th anniversary of the Chicana/o School Blowouts
Reading First, Libraries Last
In these bleak NCLB days of regimented
The Scripted Prescription
Testing mania reaches the pre-K classroom. It saddened me to think that my daughter’s first impression of school was based on taking a test and failing it.”
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Think Less Benchmarks
Thanks to the folks at the Discovery Channel
Textbook Scripts, Student Lives
Textbooks
City Teaching; Beyond the Stereotypes
For city teachers
You’re Asian, How Could You Fail Math?
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Raising Money, Raising Consciousness
A writer and mother sifts through the fund-raising business and discovers that products that educate students and consumers and reward workers.
Despair, Hope, and the Future
UCLA professor blunts anti-public school rhetoric with honest insights on education.
Edwina Left Behind
Edwina did what was asked of her. Did Alaska do everything it could for her?
Elephants in the Room
When mainstream media report on urban schools, the real story is often what goes unsaid.
The Morning After The Morning After
Michelle Fine describes the issues faced by U.S. Muslim-American youth following not only 9/11 but the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
My Small School Journey
An Oakland teacher experiences the negative effects of small school reform in the midst of a budget crisis.
The Shame of the Nation
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