The Shame of the Nation
By Jonathan Kozol
The restoration of apartheid schooling in America.

Editorial: Katrina's Lessons
By the Editors of Rethinking Schools
It wasn't just the hurricane that devastated the Gulf; it was also a slower, more preventable surge of racism and poverty.

Keeping Public Schools Public: Free-Market Education
By Barbara Miner
Graphic evidence that school vouchers do not guarantee school quality in Milwaukee.

Commentary: Christopher Columbus and the Iraq War
By Bill Bigelow
How the myth built up around Columbus has helped condition kids to accept imperial adventures like the Iraq war.

Reconstructing Race
By Nathaniel W. Smith
A teacher introduces his students to the slippery concept of race.

There's a lot more inside this issue.