Tackling Tracking
A teacher finds that small school reform presents opportunities to teach about tracking and inequality.
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Rhetoric or Reality?
Do small schools change teaching practice?
New Kids on the Block
Fifth graders use Judy Blume’s novel Iggie’s House to think about racism, anti-racism and the importance of acting for justice.
My Year with Nike
The author, who teaches in Nike’s hometown of Beaverton, Oregon, recounts a year of troubling field trips sponsored by the corporate giant.
All Work and No Play
How education reforms and the accountability” movement are hurting our nation’s youngest children.”
Cyber Tots
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Teaching in Black and White
Two college-level educators make race central to their teaching-by teaching together.
Re-examining the Revolution
Giving a nod to multiculturalism is not the same as getting the story of the American Revolution right.
Testing Companies Mine for Gold
The Bush testing craze has test makers raking in the green with almost no questions asked.
My Mother’s Spanish
Embracing English doesn’t have to mean leaving your family’s first language behind.
Youth Speak Out Against War, Recruitment
Students in Boulder, Colorado occupy their high school overnight.
No Child Left Untested: Testing Tots
Testing Tots – Even 4-year-olds are being subjected to inappropriate assessment, and lots of it.
Confronting Child Labor
Students look beyond designer labels and examine the international oppression of workers
Teachers Tour U.S.-Mexico Border
A look at education activism around the country.
Voucher Supporters Attack Kerry
Why are pro-voucher organizations running anti-Kerry ads in African-American communities in swing states?
Making History
John Kerry’s groundbreaking 1971 speech against the Vietnam War can be a useful teaching tool.
Poetry
A middle-school teacher shares her reaction to the underperforming” label.”
Blowing the Whistle on The Texas Miracle
Rethinking Schools’ managing editor interviews the man who shined a spotlight on the dropout scandal in Houston. A former dropout himself, Kimball describes the retaliation he has suffered for poking holes in empty education reforms, and describes his continuing battle against institutional racism in education.
The Power of First-Person
Most educational writing is done in the abstract third person, as if there were no writer present. But the authors of two new books, I Am a Pencil and The Big Picture, write […]
Four More Years-of Resistance
George W. Bush may still be president of the United States, but he’s still not president of our curriculum.
Moving Beyond Judgment
The celebrated language-arts teacher comes clean” on why she hasn’t graded a student paper in 28 years.”
With Math, It’s Like You Have More Defense
Students use mathematics to investigate and affect overcrowding at their school.
The Hero’s Human Heart
In the Time of Butterflies” by Julia Alzarez
Student Voices
School System Shock This is my senior year, a time in my life when I am supposed to exhale, to feel like I have accomplished something. When I graduate, I […]
Paige Abuses the Apartheid Metaphor
Bush’s education secretary distorts the history of apartheid as he advances the Republican education agenda.