COVER STORY: The Tougher Standards Fad Hits Home
By Alfie Kohn
Invoking "accountability" and "competitiveness" to justify homework.

EDITORIAL: The Educational Land Grab
By the editors of Rethinking Schools
For predatory "disaster capitalists," Hurricane Katrina was another opportunity to cash in on disaster, and the resulting chaos has left schools fragmented and confused.

Dismantling a Community
A timeline compiled by Leigh Dingerson, the Center for Community Change

Voices from the Big Uneasy
The following articles are from participants in the Students at the Center (SAC) program, which encourages current and former New Orleans students and teachers to write about their lives, in school and out. Thanks to Jim Randels for providing these materials.

Hurricane Katrina: Reading injustice, celebrating solidarity
By Linda Christensen

Solidarity Not Charity
By Larry Miller
An interview with Shakoor Aljuwani of the Common Ground Collective.

There's a lot more inside this issue.