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- Cover Theme: Performance Test for New Teachers — A Forum on the edTPA
- The Role of Performance Assessment in Developing Teaching as a Profession
- Wrong Answer to the Wrong Question • Why we need critical teacher education, not standardization
- What’s a Nice Test Like You Doing in a Place Like This? • EdTPA and corporate education “reform”
- Editorial: The Trouble with the Common Core
- Rethinking the Day of Silence
- Cover Theme: Learning Math, Learning Justice
- Editorial • Just Math
- Whose Community Is This? • Mathematics of neighborhood displacement
- Beyond Marbles • Percent change and social justice
- Responding to Tragedy • 2nd graders reach out to the Sikh community
- Paradise Lost • Introducing students to climate change through story
Volume 27, No.2 — Winter 2012/2013
- Cover Theme: Reinventing Teachers’ Unions
- Editorial • New Teachers' Union Movement in the Making
- Lessons in Social Justice Unionism • An interview with Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis
- “When Are You Going to Come Visit?” • Home visits and seeing our students
- The Character of Our Content • A parent confronts bias in early elementary literature
- Cover Theme: Race and Place
- Burned Out of Homes and History • Unearthing the Silenced Voices of the Tulsa Race Riot
- “Why Is This the Only Place in Portland I See Black People?” • Teaching Young Children About Redlining
- “Multiplication Is for White People” • An Interview with Lisa Delpit
- Boot Camp for Education CEOs • The Broad Foundation Superintendents Academy
- Facing Cancer • Social justice in biology class
- The Danger of a Single Story • Writing essays about our lives
- From Johannesburg to Tucson
- Fracking • In the end, we’re all downstream
- A Message from a Black Mom to Her Son
- Writing for Justice • Persuasion from the Inside Out
- Sin Fronteras Boy • Students Create Collaborative Websites to Explore the Border
- Dirty Oil and Shovel-Ready Jobs • A Role Play on Tar Sands and the Keystone XL Pipeline
Volume 26, No.2 — Winter 2011/2012
Special Issue: the School-to-Prison Pipeline
- Schools and the New Jim Crow: An Interview with Michelle Alexander
- Arresting Development: Zero Tolerance and the Criminalization of Children
- The Classroom-to-Prison Pipeline
- Plotting Inequalities, Building Resistance
- Still Fighting for all Our Children
- For or Against Children • The Problematic History of Stand for Children
- Trigger Laws • Does Signing a Petition Gives Parents a Voice?
- “Before Today, I Was Afraid of Trees” • Rethinking Nature Deficit Disorder
- Climate Crisis in the Classroom
- Our Climate Crisis Is an Education Crisis
- Who’s Bashing Teachers and Public Schools and What Can We Do About It?
- Got Coal? Teaching About the Most Dangerous Rock in America
Volume 25, No. 3 — Spring 2011
- Our Climate Crisis is an Education Crisis
- Got Coal? — Teaching about the most dangerous rock in America
- Fuzzy Math — Test scoring
- Who's Bashing Teachers?
Volume 25, No. 2 — Winter 2010
- Saving Our Schools From Superheroes
- A People's History of the Abolitionist Movement
- My Teacher is a Lesbian — Coming out at school
- Whitening Arizona
- Fighting for Our Schools
- You Are Where You Sit
- Teacher Layoffs and War
- A Social Justice Data Fair — Questioning the world through math
Volume 24, No. 4 — Summer 2010
- Pain and Poetry — Facing our fears
- 'Greco-Roman Knowledge Only' in Arizona Schools — Indigenous wisdom outlawed
- Five Years After the Levees Broke
- Steady Work — Finland builds a strong teaching system
Volume 24, No. 3 — Spring 2010
- In Honor of Howard Zinn
- Teaching about Haiti
- Teach for America
- Building Hope
Volume 24, No. 2 — Winter 2009/10
- Reading for Justice
- Highlights approaches and resources for encouraging students toward deep involvement and critical thinking about literature.
- "Save the Muslim Girl!" — Does young adult fiction about Muslim girls build understanding or reinforce stereotypes?
- Breaking the silence on War
- School Leadership for Tough Times
- The possibilities when principals and superintendents buck the trend toward testing and standardization.
- When the gender boxes don't fit.
- Alternative pay structures for teachers.
Volume 23, No. 4 — Summer 2009
- Teaching for Environmental Justice
- The environmental crisis requires a profound social and curricular rethinking.
- A Pedagogy for Ecology
- First-person narratives about climate change bridge the gap for students between theory and reality.
Volume 23, No. 3 — Spring 2009
- Arne Duncan and the Chicago Success Story:
Myth or Reality? - Dunking on Arne Duncan
- When '21st-Century Schooling' Just Isn't Good Enough:
A Modest Proposal - Knock Knock: Turning Pain into Power
Volume 23, No. 2 — Winter 2008/2009
- Marketing American Girlhood
- An Open Letter to President-elect Obama
- Move Over, Sisyphus
- Remembering Mahmoud Darwish
- Putting Out the Linguistic Welcome Mat
- Peers, Power, and Privilege
- Which of the Above?
- Embracing a Vision of Social Justice in Early Childhood Education
Volume 22, No. 4 — Summer 2008
- The Laptops are Coming! The Laptops are Coming!
- Putting a Human Face On the Immigration Debate
- Everything Flowers
- Pump Up The Blowouts
Volume 22, No. 3 — Spring 2008
- Beyond NCLB
- Bogus Claims About Reading First
- A Time for Change
- TV Selfishness and Violence Explode During 'War On Terror'
Volume 22, No, 2 — Winter 2007/2008
- Stereotypes, Silence, and Speaking Out
- Winds of Change
- Students, Community Rally to Tukwila Six
- NCLB Stalled, but Still Armed and Dangerous
- Backpedaling Toward Plessy
- Remembering Asa Hilliard
- Beware the Jargon Factory
- Revisiting Ruby Payne
Volume 21, No, 4 — Summer 2007
- Exit Strategies
- 'Lego Fascists' (that's us) vs. Fox News
- 'Narrow and Unlovely'
- Living Algebra, Living Wage
Volume 21, No, 3 — Spring 2007
- Raised by Women
- Can NCLB Be Left Behind?
- 'I Just Want to Read Frog and Toad'
- The War in Iraq and Daily Classroom Life
Volume 21, No, 2 — Winter 2006/2007
- Why We Banned Legos
- Investigating Slavery in New York City
- Algebra Students Look at Peak Oil
- Critiquing Ruby Payne
- Why Homework?
- New Orleans Schools After Katrina
- The Education Land Grab
Volume 20, No, 4 — Summer 2006
- There's No Business Like Food Business
- Learning from Worms
- From Farm to Lunchroom
Volume 20, No, 3 — Spring 2006
- Special 20th Anniversary Issue
- Silencing Teachers in an Era of Scripted Reading
- Rethinking Teacher Unions
Volume 20, No, 2 — Winter 2005/2006
- Improving Teacher Quality
- Interviews with Deborah Meier & Gloria Ladson-Billings
- Teaching Brown in Tuscaloosa
- School Days
- The Shame of the Nation
- Teaching Global Warming in Truck Country
- Katrina's Lessons
- Playing with Gender
Volume 19, No, 4 — Summer 2005
- Special Report: Small School Reform
- Tackling Tracking
- An Open Letter to Bill and Melinda Gates
Volume 19, No, 3 — Spring 2005
- Kid Stuff: Special Collection on Early Childhood
- "The Recruitment Minefield" by Bill Bigelow
- Excerpts from "Rethinking Mathematics"
- The Tsunami and Other Disaster
Volume 19, No, 2 — Winter 2004/2005
- Moving Beyond Judgment
- My Dirty Little Secret
By Linda Christensen - 'With Math, It's Like You Have More Defense'
- My Year With Nike
- Cybertots: Technology and the Preschool Child
- Testing Companies Mine for Gold
- Standardizing Imperialism
- The NCLB Test
- Blowing the Whistle on the Texas Miracle
- Excerpts from The New Teacher Book
Volume 18, No, 4 — Summer 2004
- Beyond the Bake Sale
- Making Every Lesson Count
- Confronting Child Labor
- Brown Doll, White Doll: Partner poems help students talk back
Volume 18, No, 3 — Spring 2004
Special issue on desegregation, civil rights, and the "Brown v Board of Education" Supreme Court decision
Volume 18, No, 2 — Winter 2003/2004
- Lead Poisoning as an Education Issue
- Voucher Schools Turn Their Backs on Special Ed Students
- Lessons From a Garden Spider
- Beyond Pink and Blue: Helping Kids See Past Gender Stereotypes
- The Politics of Correction
- Houston's 'Zero Dropout' Miracle
- Head Start or Head Backwards
- Unwrapping the Holidays
Volume 17, No, 4 — Summer 2003
- 'I Chose the Baby'
- Danger in the Earth: Teaching About Landmines
- Captives of the Script
- Learning to Read and the 'W' Principle
Volume 17, No, 3 — Spring 2003
- Teaching About the War
- 'A Ghetto Within a Ghetto'
- Seventh Graders and Sexism
- Colorado Upholds the Right to Bilingual Education
Volume 17, No, 2 — Winter 2002/2003
- The Sex Education Crisis
- "McDonalds or IBM?" - Eighth graders must choose.
- Remembering Paul Wellstone
- Exploring Child Labor with Young Students.
- Special Section: Advice for New Teachers
- The Truth About Helen Keller
- The Best Discipline is a Good Curriculum
- The Puerto Rican Vejigante
Volume 16, No, 4 — Summer 2002
- Confronting White Privilege
- Let Them Eat Tests
- Does Bilingual Ed Work?
- Israel, Palestine and Teaching
Volume 16, No, 3 — Spring 2002
- Supreme Court Debates Vouchers
- Special Education: Promises and Problems
- Exploring Women's Rights
- Teachers Reject Testing 'Bribes'
Volume 16, No, 2 — Winter 2001/2002
- War, Terrorism, and America's Classrooms: Teaching in the Aftermath of September 11
- Teaching Intolerance: The Textbooks of the Religious Right
- "She's for Real" -- A Lesbian Teacher Comes Out to Her Class
- Edison takes on Philadelphia
- Schools More Separate: Consequences of A Decade of Resegregation
- Bamboozled By The Texas "Miracle"
- "Choice" And Other White Lies
- "Boston Public" -- Fox's latest soap opera happens to be set in a high school
Volume 15, No, 4 — Summer 2001
- How one new teacher stayed true to her social-justice vision
- Teaching and Cultural Competence, by Gloria Ladson-Billings
- Harold Berlak on race and the achievement gap
- Why some teachers refuse to take part in high-stakes testing
Volume 15, No. 3 — Spring 2001
- 15th Anniversary Special Report: Looking Back, Moving Forward
- Separate and Unequal: Race-based Gaps in Milwaukee-area School Funding
- Examining Media Violence and Stereotypes
- Math, Maps and Misrepresentation.
Volume 15, No. 2 — Winter 2000/01
- Standing Up for Social Justice
- Romeo and Juliet vs. the Military Recruiters
- Moving Beyond "Us and Them" When Teaching Global Issues
- Bilingual Education Works, But Remains Under Attack.
- Multiculturalism: What Now?
- "Reading, Writing, and Rising Up:" An excerpt from Linda Christensen's new book on language arts teaching for justice.
- Value Added—Value Lost? Gerald Bracey looks at the "value added" testing fad.
- Neightborhood schools and the threat of re-segregating schools.
Volume 14, No, 4 — Summer 2000
- Questioning the Value of Value-Added Testing.
- A Vision of School Reform—Eight Principles to Guide Educationl Change.
- Teaching in Dangerous Times—Hollywood doesn't understand the real threats to teachers.
- When Schools Compete—Lessons learned from New Zealand's experiments with market-based reforms.
Volume 14, No. 3 — Spring 1999/2000
- Why "merit pay" plans don't pay
- Girls, Worms, And Body Image—A teacher deals with gender stereotypes among her second- and third-graders.
- Neighborhood Schools: Deja Vu—A policy of returning to local schools suggests historical amnesia about both neighborhood schools and busing, and threatens to increase racial inequality.
- Teaching About the WTO—A Seattle teacher reflects on his unit on global issues and the lessons his students learned first-hand during "The Battle in Seattle."
Volume 14, No. 2 — Winter 1999/2000
- Special Report on teaching students about media, advertising and our consumer culture.
- Asa Hilliard on race and education
- The National Education Summit gives goes "full speed ahead on testing.
- Vouchers and the complex church/state issues they raise.
- Teaching Past the Platitudes of the Civil Rights Movement
- Vouchers and Public Accountability
- The Return of "Traditional Teaching"
- Special Report: Milwaukee Teachers Help Build Schools in Chiapas, Mexico
Volume 13, No, 4 — Summer 1999
- Confronting Racism, Promoting Respect
- Bilingual Education: New Visions for a New Era
- Milwaukee's School Board Election: Who Won and Why
- Students and Parents Take Action Against Over-Testing
- Standards and Multiculturalism
Volume 13, No. 3 — Spring 1999
- Why the Testing Craze Won't Fix Our Schools
- The Forgotten History of Eugenics
- Chicago Policy of No Social Promotions Gets an F
- The Human Toll of US Policy on Iraq
- The Influential E. D. Hirsch
Volume 13, No. 2 — Winter 1998/99
- What Now for Bilingual Education?
- Fighting Homophobia in Schools
- Helping Children Cope with Race Issues
- The Special Needs of Homeless Students
- Alternatives to Tracking
- Reconstituting Jefferson High School
- What Happened to the NEA-AFT Merger?
- Special Education Issues with Charters and Vouchers
- Helping students deal with grief
- Bias in Culturally Authentic Literature
Volume 12, No, 4 — Summer 1998
- Teacher Unionism
- Internet Filters: Beware the CyberCensors
- Peer Mentoring
- The Right-Wing Attack on Sex Education
- Standards: Quality Control or Decoy?
Volume 12, No. 3 — Spring 1998
- Dismantling bilingual education in California
- SPECIAL REPORT: Censorship in our schools
- Darkness before the dawn for Milwaukee schools?
- Motivating students to do quality work
- Teaching children about the uneven distribution of wealth.
Volume 12, No. 2 — Winter 1997/98
- The criminalization of youth
- SPECIAL REPORT: The ongoing struggle over creationism
- A teacher reflects on kids and gangs
- MPS admissions policy rewards privilege
"The Real Ebonics Debate:
Power, Language, and the Education of African-American Children"
A special edition on Ebonics guest-edited by Theresa Perry and Lisa Delpit. Includes more than 20 articles explaining the legitimacy of Ebonics, and why African-American children must be taught Standard English if they are going to succeed in school.
Volume 11, No, 4 — Summer 1997
- SPECIAL REPORT: Global Sweatshops: Teaching kids about the human
- lives behind the labels.
- The NEA and a new vision of teacher unionism.
- The loss of Paulo Freire, 1921-1997
Volume 11, No. 3 — Spring 1997
- Gay issues, schools and the right-wing backlash
- Teaching Mexican children in US border schools
- How hypocrisy distorts the standards debate
Volume 11, No. 2 — Winter 1996/97
- Equal Opportunity and the Federal Role in Education
- Arranged marriages: a teacher comes to grips with cultural differences
- Equity, not abandonment, should drive federal education policy
Immigration and schools: What happened to the "golden door?"
Why MPS plans to screen students are a step backward
Volume 10, No. 4 — Summer 1996
- Assessment
- Portfolios
- Resisting the High School Canon
- Role of Whites in Combating Racism
- Finding Educational Resources Online
- Bib: Homelessness
Volume 10, No. 3 — Spring 1996
- Special Report: The Right Wing and Education
- School to Work
- Equity and School Finance Reform
- Charter Schools
Volume 10, No. 2 — Winter 1995/96
- Enriching Classrooms via the Internet
- Attacks on Whole Language
- Teaching about AIDS
- Ten Year Index of Rethinking Schools
- Math Across Curriculuum
- Community Role in Reform
- Critique of "The Oregon Trail"
- Bibliography: Asian-American Resources
Volume 9, No. 4
- Funding for Justice
- Special Expanded Edition Explores School Funding
Volume 9, No. 3
- Vouchers
- Lessons from Vietnam War
- Portfolios
- History Standards
- Bib: Environmental Justice Resources
Volume 9, No. 2
- The Bell Curve
- Attack on School Lunch
- Corporations Invade Schools
- Proposition 187
- New Teacher Blues
- English Standards
- Review of "Squanto"
Volume 9, No. 1
- Sexual Harrassment
- Immigration
- Bias in CD-ROMs
- Teacher Unionism
- Gifted Education
- Teaching about the Caribbean
Volume 8, No. 4
- Race Among Young Children
- Charter Schools
- Goals 2000
- Rap and Respect
- Gay Literature in the Classroom
- Bib: Lesbian and Gay Issues
Volume 8, No. 3
- Bradley Foundation Analysis
- Teaching for Social Justice
- Poetry and Critical Thinking
- Parents and Conservative Ideology
- Teacher Unions
- Bib: Multicultural Catalogs
Volume 8, No. 2
- Critique of Hirsch's "Cultural Literacy"
- Puerto Ricans in Children's Books
- Whole Language
- Bilingualism
- Sandia Study
Volume 8, No. 1
- Teacher Unions
- Youth Apprenticeships
- Algebra for All
- School Violence
- Detracking
- Bib: Labor History
Volume 7, No. 4
- For-Profit Companies Target Schools
- Detracking Social Studies
- How Christian Right Organizes
- Poetry in the Classroom
- Videos with a Conscience
Volume 7, No. 3
- Beyond Pizza Sales
- Special Expanded Edition on Parent Involvement
- Bib: Children's Books on the Elderly
Volume 7, No. 2
- Voc Ed
- Untracking High School English
- Private Voucher Programs
- Howard Zinn Interview
- Mexican-Americans in Textbooks
- Bib: U.S. History
Volume 7, No. 1
- Student Resistance to Learning
- Public School Choice
- Schools and Business
Volume 6, No. 4
- AIDS and School
- Sexual Harrassment
- Confronting Anti-Gay Name Calling
- Channel One
- Mascots and Racism
- Bib: HIV and AIDS
Volume 6, No. 3
- The Illusion of School Choice
- Interview with Lisa Delpit
- Building a School Culture of High Standards
- Business Involvement in Schools
Volume 6, No. 2
- Teaching Native American Literature
- Photos by Homeless Children
- Cooperative Learning and Exceptional Education
- Bib: Periodicals by People of Color
Volume 6, No. 1
- Curriculum Reform
- Interview with Enid Lee on Anti-racist Teaching
- Foxfire 25th Anniversary
- Bib: Children's Books by African Americans
Volume 5, No. 4
- Budget Crisis
- Stereotypes in Children's Stories
- Memories of a Pueblo Childhood
- African-American Immersion Schools
- Bib: Alternative Geography Resources
Volume 5, No. 3
- The Gulf War and Students
- Teacher Training and Race
- Saying "NO" to TV
- Mexican Teacher's Struggle
- Tracking
- Bib: Resources on the Middle East
Volume 4, No. 2
- Standard English
- Cultural Styles
- Project Approach
- Ban K-2 Tests
Volume 3, No.3
- Rethinking Curriculum
- Standardized Testing
- Oregon Writing Project
Volume 3, No. 2
- Testing
- Alternative Assessment
- Bib: Rethinking Assessment
Volume 3, No. 1
- Critical Pedagogy
- School Vouchers
- Bib: Critical Pedagogy for Classroom Teachers
Volume 2, No. 2
- Outcome Based Education
- Education in South Africa
- Bib: Children's Books on South Africa
Volume 1, No. 3
- Alternatives
- Desegregation
- Bib: Books to Empower Young Children