Bad Signs
What are the real messages in the inspirational slogans covering classroom walls? Plus some better alternatives.
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Fuzzy Math
A middle school writing teacher reflects on a day spent scoring districtwide math tests.
You Are Where You Sit
Students analyze the impact of different seating arrangements in class, linking issues of power, space, and hierarchy to the world outside.
A Social Justice Data Fair
Math is at the center of student-generated projects on environmental, social, and political themes.
The Ultimate $uperpower
An investigative report on the analog conservatives and digital billionaires behind the films interlaced marketing and political campaigns.
‘My Teacher Is a Lesbian’
Adventures of an out teacher and some suggestions for deciding if and how to come out to your students.
Neither Fair Nor Accurate
Six clear explanations why value-added measurements don’t make sense for teacher assessment.
Teaching Is a Fight
Reminiscences by the teacher who helped lead the 1968 Chicana/o student blowouts in Los Angeles.
The History All Around Us
The school building becomes text when a teacher uses place as a way to make history come alive.
Whitening Arizona
When children are under attack, teacher educators need to instill activism as well as pedagogy in preservice teachers.
Steady Work
An insightful look at a country that decided to invest in teachers and social support instead of standardized testing.
Wise, Wiser, Teacher
A U.S. educator reflects on her experiences in Finland.
A Librarian in Every School, Books in Every Home
Elementary school students join a campaign to save school librarians.
Coming Soon to Your Favorite Credential Program
A California teacher educator analyzes the impact of Arne Duncan’s pet standardized test for credential candidates.
Those Awful Texas Social Studies Standards
The new Texas standards deserve the bad press they’ve received, but Oregon’s aren’t that much better. How about the standards in your state?
‘Greco-Roman Knowledge Only’ in Arizona Schools
The Arizona legislature attacks ethnic studies, and it’s the tip of the iceberg.
Fighting for Electives
A middle school teacher tries to reclaim electives for students assigned to READ 180 instead.
To Teach
A peek at the new graphic novel that brings to life a best-selling memoir.
Who Can Stay Here?
Picture books about immigration and citizenship rarely portray the issues that children from immigrant families face every day. Here is a framework to help teachers choose books and open discussion.
Deporting Elena’s Father
The story of one child whose father was deported casts light on a growing crisis.
The Other Internment
A role play engages students in exploration of a little-known piece of history – the deportation of people of Japanese origin from Latin American countries to U.S. internment camps and back to Japan as POWs.
School Reform We Can’t Believe In
Education joins healthcare, the economy, and foreign policy as issues where campaign promises of change and hope have morphed into Washington business as usual – or worse.
‘Don’t Take Our Voices Away’ – A Role Play on the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change
Students learn about the impact of climate change on the world’s most vulnerable cultures and geographic areas, then share their knowledge as they discuss strategy for saving the planet.
Transsexuals, Teaching Your Children
A middle-school teacher describes how he makes his classroom safe for broad discussions of gender identity and explains why anti-bullying curriculum isnt enough.
Learning About the Unfairgrounds
Literature and a tea party open childrens eyes to injustice and the fight for civil rights in the Northwest.