Editorial: An Open Letter to President-elect Obama
By The Editors of Rethinking Schools

Move Over, Sisyphus
By Linda Christensen
Get students passionate about writing and the grammar will follow

Remembering Mahmoud Darwish
By Naomi Shihab Nye
The Palestinian poet's richly descriptive style resonated with displaced peoples everywhere

The Prison Cell
Poem by Mahmoud Darwish

A Test Scorer's Lament
By Todd Farley
Scenes from the mad, mad, mad world of testing companies

Teaching's Revolving Door
By Barbara Miner
New teachers leave the profession at an alarming rate—and there's no single reason or easy solutions

Decolonizing the Classroom: Lessons in Multicultural Education
By Wayne Au
Multicultural education has to be based on dialogue?both among students and between students and teachers

There's a lot more inside this issue.