Standardizing Imperialism
By Christine E. Sleeter
A look at how California's standards discourage students from looking critically at U.S. foreign policy, and implicitly teach imperialism.

Measuring Water with Justice
By Bob Peterson
A multidisciplinary lesson helps elementary students explore the economics, science, and politics of one of the world's most precious resources.

Sweatshop Accounting
By Larry Steele
A high school teacher shares lessons on economic justice with his business-education students.

Editorial: A Nation at Risk
By the Editors of Rethinking Schools
The Bush administration needs to be taken to task, both for the counterproductive and misnamed No Child Left Behind act and for the Iraq war, which threatens to siphon off more of our country's resources and kill more of our students.

The No Child Left Behind Test | PDF (74
By Stan Karp
k) Since today's education policymakers seem to love this format, Rethinking Schools presents a multiple-choice test on NCLB that unlike most multiple choice tests, this one has some educational value.

There's a lot more inside this issue.