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"MPS Admissions Policy Rewards Privilege" 12.2: 2

"MPS Alternative Programs" 1.3: 7

"MPS Bureaucracy Receives Criticism" 3.1: 3

"MPS: Is This the Darkness Before the Dawn?" 12.3: 2

"MPS Pays for Facilities with Money Intended for Children" 10.3: 4

"MPS Revamps Admissions Policies for High Schools" 11.1: 12-13

"MPS Screening a Step Backward" 11.1: 2

"MPS Suspensions Skyrocket" 13.1: 17

MacEwan, Arthur
"Making Conservative Ideology Work" 9.4: 8-9

MacPhie, Richard
"We Are Not Extras" 6.4: 14

"Madeline Hunter's Teaching Machine" 2.3: 10-11

"Madison Students Protest Sale of Pizza Hut at School" 10.3: 19

magnet schools 8.1: 16; 9.4: 20
and choice 4.1: 10

Mahaffey, Foyne
"Are We Accepting Too Much?" 6.4: 6
"Hooked On Phonics Scam, The" 6.2: 6
"Life in the "Real World" 11.3: 27
"Stuff-Driven Curriculum, The" 11.2: 26

Maier, Mark
"Stocks for Fun and Propaganda" 16.3: 7

"Maimed and Morbid Writing for Secondary Students" 1.1: 5

Maine
school funding 9.4: 18, 33

"Making Connections: Challenges We Face" (Dewey, multicultural teaching)3.3: 1, 12- 13

"Making Conservative Ideology Work" 9.4: 8-9

"Making Money Make a Difference" 9.4: 10, 23

"Making Prejudice Visible" 13.4: 24

"Making Schools Safe for Sissies" 9.3: 8-9

Mallory, Joyce 4.1: 3

Manhattan Institute 8.3: 18

Manning, Steven
"Channel One Enters the Media Literacy Movement" 14.2: 15, 17-18

maps
bias in 5.4: 12-13; 15.3: 6-7

Marable, Manning
"Racism and Reparations" 16.1: 19

marketplace ideology
and schools 4.1: 11; 4.4: 13; 9.4: 13-14; 11.1: 23; 11.3: 8-9; 14.4: 17, 25; 15.3 14 (insert)

Marriott Corporation 9.3: 18-19

Marshall High School (Milw.) 10.3: 1, 22

Marshall, Paule 2.4: 1; 12.1: 20

Martin, Eleanor
"'No' Is the Right Answer" 14.1: 6

Martinez, Elizabeth
"How California Texts Portray Latinos" 7.2: 10-11

Maryland
school funding 9.4: 18, 33

"Masks of Global Exploitation" 14.2: 14, 16-17

Mason, Gloria 1.2: 2, 8

Massachusetts
reform efforts 7.3: 13
school funding 6.3: 4; 9.4: 18, 33
student protests 13.4: 4

"Massachusetts 'Choice' Plan Undercuts Poor Districts" 6.3: 4

mastery learning 2.3: 10-11

math (see also "Math Corner" in issues 8.1 and later)
Algebra Project (Milwaukee) 8.1: 3, 19; 8.4: 5; 15.4: 14-15 (national)
instruction 5.1: 5, 16; 10.1: 1, 4-5; 16.1: 12-13
phobia 9.1: 22
resources 9.1: 22
in social justice teaching 7.1: 4; 8.3: 3, 11; 9.1: 6-7; 15.3: 6-7; 16.4: 18-19; 18.1: 35-37
instruction 5.1: 5, 16; 10.1: 1, 4-5; 15.3: 7; 15.4: 14-15; 16.1: 12-13

"Math, SATs, and Racial Profiling" 16.4: 18-19

Matthias, Sharon
"Our Schools Are Falling Apart, Literally" 9.4: 21
"Senate Rejects History Standards" 9.3: 7

Maxwell, Bruce 9.2: 3, 24-25

McCollum, Bill (R-Fla.) 12.2: 1, 3

McCuaig, Andrew
"More is Not Better" 11.3: 18, 26

McDonald's 11.4: 23; 16.4: 16; 17.2: 3-4

"'McDonald's or IBM'" 17.2: 3-4

McGriff, Deborah 3.1: 9; 3.2: 1, 6, 18; 3.3: 6-7
"Dear President Clinton, Comprehensive Plan Essential" 7.2: 12

McGuire, Robert
"Tax Dollars At Work" 15.1: 21

McKenna, Tom
"Confronting Racism, Promoting Respect" 13.4: 1, 8-9
"Straitjacket of Standardized Tests, The" 13.3: 8

McLaren, Peter
"The Origins of Multiculturalism" (with Christine Sleeter ) 15.1: 12

McNally, Joel
"'A Ghetto Within a Ghetto'" 17.3: 6-7, 25

McNeil, Linda
"Educational Costs of Standardization, The" 14.4: 8-9, 13

McQuillan, Jeff
"Lessons from the Reading Wars" 13.4: 21

media
bias in 5.3: 17-18; 8.3: 11; 12.1: 11
corporate control of 14.2: 19, 20, 26
literacy 14.2: 14-20, 25, 26
schools in 8.3: 6; 9.2: 20-21
student 8.3: 19
sexism in 15.3: 14, 18

Meier, Deborah 2.4: 6-7; 4.1: 3; 9.2: 20; 9.4: 29-30
"Are High School Students Dumb?" 2.4: 12, 18
"Hard Look at Bush's Plans, A" (interview) 6.2: 4-5
"How Our Schools Could Be" 11.4: 8-9
"Why Top-Down Structures and Excellent Teaching Don't Mix" 2.2: 14

Meier, Terry
"Case Against Standardized Achievement Tests, The" 3.2: 9-12
"Literature from Children's Roots" 12.1: 20-21
"Teaching Teachers About Black Communications" 12.1: 22-23, 35

Meltzer, Milton
"Role of Whites in Combatting Racism, The" 10.4: 4-5

"Membership Has Its Privileges" 16.4: 15

Menkart, Deborah
"Countering Bias Against Cuba" 9.1: 18
"Putting Haiti in Perspective" 9.1: 19

merit pay 3.2: 1; 14.3: 1, 8, 9-10, 11

"Merit: To Pay or Not to Pay" 14.3: 1, 9-10

Metro High School (Milw.) 10.3: 23

Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce 12.3: 25

Mexican-Americans 11.3: 1, 16-17; 15.2: 20-21
in literature 8.2: 3

"Mexican Teachers Struggle for Democracy and Survival" 5.3: 8-9

Mexican War 7.2: 6, 11

Mexico
Chiapas/Zapatistas 14.1: 14-16
schools 5.3: 8-9; 14.1: 14-16

Meyer, Richard J.
"Captives of the Script" 17.4: 9-11

"Michael, the Student Who Inspired Me to Quit Teaching" 10.4: 18-19

Michie, Greg
"Taking a Stand for Learning" 17.2: 8
"Terriblehorriblenogoodverybad" 13.2: 20-21
"You Gotta Be Hard" 12.2: 4-6

Michelson, Ellen
"Canadian Teachers Strike" 12.2: 12

Michigan
high-stakes tests 13.4: 4
school funding 8.3: 4; 8.4: 4; 9.4: 12-14, 18, 33
schools 9.1: 20; 9.4: 12-14; 10.3: 14

"Michigan Reforms School Funding" 9.4: 12-14

middle class 10.3: 7, 25

Middle East 5.1: 2
teaching about 5.3: 1, 2, 7, 17-18

Middle Passage, the 10.2: 6-7

Migrant Farmworkers 15.3: 12-13

military
budget 18.1: 33-34
involvement in schools 8.4: 13; 15.2: 22; 17.3: 9 (also see No Child Left Behind act); 18.2: 37-38
recruitment 3.1: 4; 3.3: 14; 4.3: 8; 6.3: 7; 9.4: 21; 10.1: 9; 15.2: 22; 17.3: 9; 18.2: 37-38

Miller, Florence
"Are High School Students Dumb?" 2.4: 12, 18

Miller, Larry 10.3: 23
"Bringing the Civil Rights Movement Into the Classroom" 17.2: 18
"Forward to the Past" 15.1: 18-20
"Labor Videos" 8.1: 23
"Reading "By Any Means Necessary"" 13.3: 26
"Solidarity with the Mayan People" 14.1: 14-16
"Students Blow the Whistle on Toxic Oil Contamination" 9.3: 22-23
"Teaching for Social Change" 7.4: 22
"To Teach: Against Pessimism and the Status Quo" 8.1: 15
"Two Powerful Films on Racism" 11.4: 23
"Voices of Black Liberation" 17.2: 19
"What Can Teachers Do About Sexual Harassment?" 9.1: 4, 22

Milwaukee 2.4: 10-11; 11.3: 10; 17.4: 6
Catholic Archdiocese 14.1: 22
history 1.2: 10-11; 3.1: 11; 12.3: 20-22
politics 7.4: 2, 15; 17.4: 6
private schools 10.3: 19
voucher schools 10.3: 19, 13.4: 25; 14.1: 22; 14.2: 22-23; 14.4: 5

"Milwaukee: A Case Study" 15.1: 5, 8-9

Milwaukee Catalyst 12.3: 25

Milwaukee Minority Ministerial Alliance 12.3: 24-25

"Milwaukee Mirrors National Concerns" 8.4: 5

Milwaukee Preparatory School 10.3: 19; 10.4: 9

Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) 1.3: 2; 2.4: 2; 3.3: 6-7; 4.3: 2; 4.4: 1, 10-11; 5.4: 3, 7; 6.4: 16-18, 22; 17.4: 6
administration 3.1: 6-7; 3.2: 1, 2; 9.4: 2
Advanced Placement 14.1: 17
algebra reform 8.1: 3, 19
alternative/specialty schools 1.3: 7; 2.3: 1, 7
charter schools 8.3: 4
choice program 7.3: 19; 9.3: 4; 13.2: 3
critique of 1.1: 1, 2, 6-7; 5.2: 1, 8-9; 8.3: 14-15, 24
desegregation reforms 1.3: 1, 4; 2.1: 1, 6-7, 8; 4.3: 1, 16-17; 9.3: 5, 26; 12.3: 20-22
discipline in 2.1: 1, 4; 13.1: 16
and EAI 7.4: 15
funding for 3.1: 3; 4.3: 19; 6.2: 1, 16-17; 6.3: 2; 7.1: 10-11; 7.2: 2-3, 23; 7.3: 30- 31; 7.4: 2, 3; 8.1: 19; 8.3: 2; 9.4: 31; 10.3: 4; 12.3: 22; 14.4: 3; 15.3: 10-11
high school admissions 12.2: 2, 28
K-12 curriculum reform 4.1: 3, 14; 5.4: 3; 6.1: 1, 21, 23; 6.3: 10-11; 8.2: 10-11; 8.4: 5, 8-9, 25; 13.1: 12
multiculturalism 15.1: 5, 8-9
other reform efforts 1.2: 3, 7; 2.2: 1, 4, 12-14, 15; 2.3: 7, 15; 3.2: 1, 18-19; 4.1: 4- 5; 6.3: 1, 9-11; 9.3: 17, 19; 10.1: 10-12; 11.1: 12-13; 11.4: 4; 12.3: 2, 24-25; 13.1: 6, 12
parent protests 14.4: 3
performance assessments in 14.4: 1, 14-16
school board 1.2: 2; 3.2: 1, 18-19; 4.1: 3; 4.2: 6; 5.2: 8-9; 5.3: 2; 6.2: 3, 5; 11.1: 12-13; 13.4: 3, 12-13; 17.4: 6
school-to-work reform 8.1: 5; 8.4: 5; 10.3: 1, 22-23; 11.1: 10-11
testing in 2.1: 2; 3.2: 3; 3.3: 1, 10-11; 14.4: 1, 14-16
voucher schools 10.3: 19, 13.4: 25; 14.1: 22; 14.2: 22-23
whole language project 2.3: 2; 2.4: 9; 3.1: 9; 3.2: 6; 3.3: 7, 14

"Milwaukee's Students as 'Crusaders for Justice'" 1.3: 9

Milwaukee Teachers Education Association (MTEA) 3.3: 7; 4.2: 6; 4.3: 3-4; 7.4: 5; 8.1: 11,13; 8.4: 5; 9.3: 2; 11.4: 4

"Milwaukee Voucher Schools Close" 10.3: 19

"Milwaukee: Who Won and Why" (1999 school-board elections) 13.4: 3, 12-13

"Milwaukee: Will Top-Down or Community-Based Reform Prevail?" 12.3: 24

Miner, Barbara
"$22 Million Siphoned from MPS to Pay for Private Schools" 13.2: 3
"Aghast Over Aladdin" 7.3: 11
"Algebra for All Ninth Graders" 8.1: 3, 19
"All Eyes Are on California" 8.1: 18
"AP Disparity in the Milwaukee Area" 14.1: 17
"Big Bucks for EAI Bigwigs" 8.2: 19
"Bilingual Education: New Visions for a New Era" 13.4: 1, 18-20
"Bradley Foundation and Milwaukee, The" 8.3: 18
"Budget Cuts Imperil Children" 5.4: 6-7
"Chicago School Reform: Giving Parents Decision-Making Power" 7.3: 6
"Chicago Teacher Paper Under Fire" 13.3: 21
"Coming Soon: The Son of Unz" 13.4: 20
"Complex Web of Conservatives Fosters Movement" 7.2: 5
"Conservatives Attack Anti-Bias Education" 6.2: 3
"Conservatives Unite to Push Parental Rights Legislation" 10.3: 15
"Edison Loses Millions -- Again" 14.1: 21
"Education for Sale?" 7.4: 1, 14-17
"Experimenting with Assessment" 6.3: 8, 23
"Facilities Plan Offers Hope" 6.4: 17
"Federal Spending Vital to Education" 9.4: 22
"For-Profit Firm on the Ropes" 14.3: 13
"For-Profits Target Education" 16.3: 16-17
"Head Start or Head Backwards" 18.1: 17-18
"Internet Filtering: Beware the Cybercensors" 12.4: 1, 10-11
"Is Teaching "La Causa" Grounds for Firing?" 12.3: 6
"Jobs of Tomorrow, The" 14.2: 8
"Keeping Public Schools Public: The Conservative Connection" 17.4: 5-6
"Keeping Public Schools Public: Privatizers' Trojan Horse" 17.3: 5
"Keeping Public Schools Public: Tuition Tax Credits: Vouchers in Disguise" 17.2: 5
"Keeping Public Schools Public: Voucher Decision Opens Pandora's Box" 17.1: 5
"Know the Law" (censorship) 12.3: 7
"MPS Revamps Admissions Policies for High Schools" 11.1: 12-13
"MPS Suspensions Skyrocket" 13.1: 17
"Michigan Reforms School Funding" 9.4: 12-14
"Milwaukee Voucher Schools Close" 10.3: 19
"Milwaukee: Will Top-Down or Community-Based Reform Prevail?" 12.3: 24
"Myth of Private School Superiority" 9.2: 13
"National Summit: What Wasn't Said" 14.2: 9
"Nationwide Protests Against Tests" 15.4: 6
"New Directions for the Bradley Foundation" 8.3: 19
"New Paint on an Old Jalopy" 5.4: 5
"No TV Week at La Escuela Fratney" 5.3: 5
"Ohio Organizers Launch "Third Grade Guarantee"" 8.4: 13
"Parents Protest Budget Cuts" 14.4: 3
"Power and the Money, The: Bradley Foundation Bankrolls Conservative Agenda" 8.3: 1, 16-20
"Privately Funded Vouchers Proliferate" 7.2: 4-5, 23
"Problems and Potentials of MPS School- to-Work" 8.1: 5
"Problems Escalate at [Milw.] Voucher Schools" 10.4: 9
"Protecting Our Children" 6.4: 1, 8-9
"Reading, Writing, and Censorship" 12.3: 4-7
"Rifts Grow in Voucher Movement" 10.1: 3, 26
"School Board Bows to Bigotry" 6.2: 3, 5
"Splits on the Right" 10.3: 1, 11-15
"Splits Widen Within Wisconsin Voucher Movement" 11.4: 10
"Stealth Book of the 1990s?: Bell Curve, The" 12.4: 4
"Students Learn Best in Small Classes" 6.2: 15
"Supreme Court Debates Vouchers" 16.3: 3, 25
"Teachers Evaluating Teachers" 6.3: 3, 5
"Testing: Full Speed Ahead" 14.2: 3, 8-10
"To Improve Bilingual Ed ..." 13.4: 19
"Tough Times Under Tommy" 5.4: 1, 9
"Visit to a Channel One Classroom, A" 6.4: 13
"Voucher Backers Illegally Funnel Money to Supreme Court Campaign" 14.4: 5
"Voucher School CEO Sentenced to Jail" 14.4: 5
"Voucher Schools Overpaid $11 Million" 15.1: 13
"Vouchers: Special Ed Students Need Not Apply" 18.2: 7-9
"Vouchers in Legal Limbo" 13.2: 3
"Voucher's Money Man" 16.1: 8-9
"What Now for the Voucher Movement?" 8.2: 19
"What's for Lunch?" 9.2: 4, 17
"Which Way for Chapter 220?" 9.3: 5, 26
"Who Owns the Wealth?" 9.4: 27
"Who's Who in MPS Reform" 12.3:25
"Whittle Changes His Tune" 7.4: 17
"Why the Secrecy?" 14.1: 22
"Will Education Alternatives Come to Milwaukee?" 7.4: 15
"Wisconsin Joins the Charter School Bandwagon" 8.1: 20
"Wisconsin Mandates Native Curricula" 6.1: 5
"Wisconsin Reports on Voucher Program" 14.3: 13

"Minneapolis to Reduce Class Sizes" 5.3: 1, 16

Minnesota
and choice 4.1: 10
Minneapolis schools 5.3: 1, 16
school funding 9.4: 18, 33
schools 2.3: 6; 7.4: 14-15

minorities
group names 6.1: 9; 10.1: 24
resources on 6.2: 22-23
students 11.1: 3

Miranda, Sami
"Yours, Mine, or Ours?" 13.4: 10, 11

"Misery Is Fun" 12.3: 10-11

Miss Saigon (musical) 11.3: 22, 26

Mississippi
school funding 9.4: 18, 33
schools 12.3: 16-19

"Mississippi Freedom Schools" 12.3: 16-19

Missouri
school funding 9.4: 18, 32
St. Louis schools 3.2: 10

Mitchell, Susan 8.3: 14-15, 24; 10.1: 3, 26

Michie, Greg
"See You When We Get There" 18.2: 39-42

"Mixed-Ability Schooling: A Radical Proposition" 5.1: 12

Modern Language Association 8.2: 9

Modern School Movement 10.2: 9

Moe, Terry 5.2: 3-4; 8.3: 14

Molnar, Alex 8.1: 20; 11.1: 23
"Case for Smaller Classes, The" (interview) 14.4: 4, 11
"Fears About Business Involvement" 7.1: 7
"Risky Business" 5.2: 13

"Money Matters" 10.3: 2

"Money, Schools, and Justice" 18.1: 26-30

"Monkeys, Pouches, and Reading" (high-stakes tests) 13.3: 9, 19

monolingualism 8.2: 24-25

Montana, school funding 9.4: 18, 33

Montclair, N.J. schools 8.1: 16-17

"Montclair Finds Many Pieces to "Detracking" Puzzle" 8.1: 16-17

"Montessori Alternative: Reading Without the Basal" 1.3: 8

Montessori schools 1.3: 8

Moody, Anne 10.2: 16

Moore, Gary T.
"Blueprints for School Success" 7.4: 21

Morales, Jennifer
"Apple Tries to Censor History" 9.3: 7
"Buying Minds" 9.4: 11
"Fasting for Funding" 8.1: 13
"Massachusetts Policy Protects Gay/Lesbian Students" 8.2: 12
"Really Rich White Guys" 9.4: 6
"Sex Harassment Rampant in Schools" 7.4: 17
"School to War?" 8.4: 13
"Wisconsin Explores Funding Alternatives" 8.3: 4

morality
teaching 8.4: 1, 10, 23, 26; 10.3: 20

"More Is Not Better" 11.3: 18, 26

Morrison, Toni 12.1: 20

Moses, Wendy
"Testing the Limits of Privacy" 16.4: 28

"Mother Speaks Out, A" (gay/lesbian students) 13.1: 22

"Motivating Students to Do Quality Work" 12.3: 1, 14-15

movie reviews
Aladdin (Disney), reviewed by Barbara Miner 7.3: 11
Forrest Gump, reviewed by Robert Lowe 9.1: 21
Mulan (Disney), reviewed by Chyng Feng Sun 13.1: 18
Newsies (Disney), reviewed by Stan Karp 6.4: 20
Pocahontas (Disney), reviewed by Cornel Pewewardy 10.1: 19
Rosewood (John Singleton, director), reveiwed by Larry Miller 11.4: 23
Spellbound (ThinkFilm), reviewed by Bill Resnick 18.1: 48
Squanto (Disney), reviewed by Joseph Bruchac 9.2: 26
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, reviewed by Bob Peterson 4.4: 5-6

"Moving Beyond Media Literacy" 14.2: 26

"Moving Beyond the Name Games" (history standards) 10.4: 16-17

"Moving Beyond Tired" (teacher organizing) 14.1: 8

"Mulan's Mixed Messages" 13.1: 18

multi-age classrooms 13.1: 7, 22

multiculturalism 6.1: 6-7, 9; 7.3: 8-11; 8.1: 16; 10.2: 8-9; 15.1: 3; 15.1: 12; 16.1: 4
critique of 6.2: 3; 7.3: 11; 8.2: 8; 9.2: 18-19; 12.4: 12
examples of 3.2: 4; 5.1: 5, 16; 6.1: 18-19; 7.3: 25-27; 7.4: 8-10, 23; 9.3: 12-13; 12.4: 12-13, 22-23; 16.2: 8-9; 18.2: 26-27
reasons for 4.4: 3-4; 5.2: 7, 16-18; 6.1: 1, 7; 6.4: 3, 15; 7.1: 4-5; 7.3: 8, 16-17, 31; 8.1: 8; 9.3: 7; 15.1: 3; 18.2: 26-27
and standards 13.4: 6-7; 15.1: 4, 6-7

Murray, Charles 8.3: 18-19; 9.2: 1, 14-16; 9.4: 24; 12.4: 4

Murray, Nancy
"Is the Playing Field Really Level?" 5.2: 7
"Sharing the Movement (Project HIP HOP)" 15.3: 8-9

Murrell, Jr., Peter 3.2: 3
"Book Review: Becoming a Nation of Readers" 1.1: 3
"North Division District Plan" 2.2: 1, 4, 15
"Superintendent's Stance on Separate District Assailed" 2.3: 15
"What Standardized Tests Do Not Measure" 1.2: 13

museums
and bias 16.2: 8-9

music
and bias 8.4: 14-15
rap 8.4: 14-15; 12.2: 16-17, 19
and social justice teaching 8.3: 6-8, 10; 17.3: 13

Muslim Students 11.2: 1, 6-7

"My Daughter, Child #008458743" 14.2: 10

"My Mom's Job Is Important" 5.3: 10-11

"Myth of Private School Superiority" 9.2: 13

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"MPS Admissions Policy Rewards Privilege" 12.2: 2 "MPS Alternative Programs" 1.3: 7 "MPS Bureaucracy Receives Criticism" 3.1: 3 "MPS: Is This the Darkness Before the Dawn?" 12.3: 2 "MPS Pays for Facilities with Money Intended for Children" 10.3: 4 "MPS Revamps Admissions Policies for High Schools" 11.1: 12-13 "MPS Screening a Step Backward" 11.1: 2 "MPS Suspensions Skyrocket" 13.1: 17 MacEwan, Arthur "Making Conservative Ideology Work" 9.4: 8-9 MacPhie, Richard "We Are Not Extras" 6.4: 14 "Madeline Hunter's Teaching Machine" 2.3: 10-11 "Madison Students Protest Sale of Pizza Hut at School" 10.3: 19 magnet schools 8.1: 16; 9.4: 20 and choice 4.1: 10 Mahaffey, Foyne "Are We Accepting Too Much?" 6.4: 6 "Hooked On Phonics Scam, The" 6.2: 6 "Life in the "Real World" 11.3: 27 "Stuff-Driven Curriculum, The" 11.2: 26 Maier, Mark "Stocks for Fun and Propaganda" 16.3: 7 "Maimed and Morbid Writing for Secondary Students" 1.1: 5 Maine school funding 9.4: 18, 33 "Making Connections: Challenges We Face" (Dewey, multicultural teaching)3.3: 1, 12- 13 "Making Conservative Ideology Work" 9.4: 8-9 "Making Money Make a Difference" 9.4: 10, 23 "Making Prejudice Visible" 13.4: 24 "Making Schools Safe for Sissies" 9.3: 8-9 Mallory, Joyce 4.1: 3 Manhattan Institute 8.3: 18 Manning, Steven "Channel One Enters the Media Literacy Movement" 14.2: 15, 17-18 maps bias in 5.4: 12-13; 15.3: 6-7 Marable, Manning "Racism and Reparations" 16.1: 19 marketplace ideology and schools 4.1: 11; 4.4: 13; 9.4: 13-14; 11.1: 23; 11.3: 8-9; 14.4: 17, 25; 15.3 14 (insert) Marriott Corporation 9.3: 18-19 Marshall High School (Milw.) 10.3: 1, 22 Marshall, Paule 2.4: 1; 12.1: 20 Martin, Eleanor "'No' Is the Right Answer" 14.1: 6 Martinez, Elizabeth "How California Texts Portray Latinos" 7.2: 10-11 Maryland school funding 9.4: 18, 33 "Masks of Global Exploitation" 14.2: 14, 16-17 Mason, Gloria 1.2: 2, 8 Massachusetts reform efforts 7.3: 13 school funding 6.3: 4; 9.4: 18, 33 student protests 13.4: 4 "Massachusetts 'Choice' Plan Undercuts Poor Districts" 6.3: 4 mastery learning 2.3: 10-11 math (see also "Math Corner" in issues 8.1 and later) Algebra Project (Milwaukee) 8.1: 3, 19; 8.4: 5; 15.4: 14-15 (national) instruction 5.1: 5, 16; 10.1: 1, 4-5; 16.1: 12-13 phobia 9.1: 22 resources 9.1: 22 in social justice teaching 7.1: 4; 8.3: 3, 11; 9.1: 6-7; 15.3: 6-7; 16.4: 18-19; 18.1: 35-37 instruction 5.1: 5, 16; 10.1: 1, 4-5; 15.3: 7; 15.4: 14-15; 16.1: 12-13 "Math, SATs, and Racial Profiling" 16.4: 18-19 Matthias, Sharon "Our Schools Are Falling Apart, Literally" 9.4: 21 "Senate Rejects History Standards" 9.3: 7 Maxwell, Bruce 9.2: 3, 24-25 McCollum, Bill (R-Fla.) 12.2: 1, 3 McCuaig, Andrew "More is Not Better" 11.3: 18, 26 McDonald's 11.4: 23; 16.4: 16; 17.2: 3-4 "'McDonald's or IBM'" 17.2: 3-4 McGriff, Deborah 3.1: 9; 3.2: 1, 6, 18; 3.3: 6-7 "Dear President Clinton, Comprehensive Plan Essential" 7.2: 12 McGuire, Robert "Tax Dollars At Work" 15.1: 21 McKenna, Tom "Confronting Racism, Promoting Respect" 13.4: 1, 8-9 "Straitjacket of Standardized Tests, The" 13.3: 8 McLaren, Peter "The Origins of Multiculturalism" (with Christine Sleeter ) 15.1: 12 McNally, Joel "'A Ghetto Within a Ghetto'" 17.3: 6-7, 25 McNeil, Linda "Educational Costs of Standardization, The" 14.4: 8-9, 13 McQuillan, Jeff "Lessons from the Reading Wars" 13.4: 21 media bias in 5.3: 17-18; 8.3: 11; 12.1: 11 corporate control of 14.2: 19, 20, 26 literacy 14.2: 14-20, 25, 26 schools in 8.3: 6; 9.2: 20-21 student 8.3: 19 sexism in 15.3: 14, 18 Meier, Deborah 2.4: 6-7; 4.1: 3; 9.2: 20; 9.4: 29-30 "Are High School Students Dumb?" 2.4: 12, 18 "Hard Look at Bush's Plans, A" (interview) 6.2: 4-5 "How Our Schools Could Be" 11.4: 8-9 "Why Top-Down Structures and Excellent Teaching Don't Mix" 2.2: 14 Meier, Terry "Case Against Standardized Achievement Tests, The" 3.2: 9-12 "Literature from Children's Roots" 12.1: 20-21 "Teaching Teachers About Black Communications" 12.1: 22-23, 35 Meltzer, Milton "Role of Whites in Combatting Racism, The" 10.4: 4-5 "Membership Has Its Privileges" 16.4: 15 Menkart, Deborah "Countering Bias Against Cuba" 9.1: 18 "Putting Haiti in Perspective" 9.1: 19 merit pay 3.2: 1; 14.3: 1, 8, 9-10, 11 "Merit: To Pay or Not to Pay" 14.3: 1, 9-10 Metro High School (Milw.) 10.3: 23 Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce 12.3: 25 Mexican-Americans 11.3: 1, 16-17; 15.2: 20-21 in literature 8.2: 3 "Mexican Teachers Struggle for Democracy and Survival" 5.3: 8-9 Mexican War 7.2: 6, 11 Mexico Chiapas/Zapatistas 14.1: 14-16 schools 5.3: 8-9; 14.1: 14-16 Meyer, Richard J. "Captives of the Script" 17.4: 9-11 "Michael, the Student Who Inspired Me to Quit Teaching" 10.4: 18-19 Michie, Greg "Taking a Stand for Learning" 17.2: 8 "Terriblehorriblenogoodverybad" 13.2: 20-21 "You Gotta Be Hard" 12.2: 4-6 Michelson, Ellen "Canadian Teachers Strike" 12.2: 12 Michigan high-stakes tests 13.4: 4 school funding 8.3: 4; 8.4: 4; 9.4: 12-14, 18, 33 schools 9.1: 20; 9.4: 12-14; 10.3: 14 "Michigan Reforms School Funding" 9.4: 12-14 middle class 10.3: 7, 25 Middle East 5.1: 2 teaching about 5.3: 1, 2, 7, 17-18 Middle Passage, the 10.2: 6-7 Migrant Farmworkers 15.3: 12-13 military budget 18.1: 33-34 involvement in schools 8.4: 13; 15.2: 22; 17.3: 9 (also see No Child Left Behind act); 18.2: 37-38 recruitment 3.1: 4; 3.3: 14; 4.3: 8; 6.3: 7; 9.4: 21; 10.1: 9; 15.2: 22; 17.3: 9; 18.2: 37-38 Miller, Florence "Are High School Students Dumb?" 2.4: 12, 18 Miller, Larry 10.3: 23 "Bringing the Civil Rights Movement Into the Classroom" 17.2: 18 "Forward to the Past" 15.1: 18-20 "Labor Videos" 8.1: 23 "Reading "By Any Means Necessary"" 13.3: 26 "Solidarity with the Mayan People" 14.1: 14-16 "Students Blow the Whistle on Toxic Oil Contamination" 9.3: 22-23 "Teaching for Social Change" 7.4: 22 "To Teach: Against Pessimism and the Status Quo" 8.1: 15 "Two Powerful Films on Racism" 11.4: 23 "Voices of Black Liberation" 17.2: 19 "What Can Teachers Do About Sexual Harassment?" 9.1: 4, 22 Milwaukee 2.4: 10-11; 11.3: 10; 17.4: 6 Catholic Archdiocese 14.1: 22 history 1.2: 10-11; 3.1: 11; 12.3: 20-22 politics 7.4: 2, 15; 17.4: 6 private schools 10.3: 19 voucher schools 10.3: 19, 13.4: 25; 14.1: 22; 14.2: 22-23; 14.4: 5 "Milwaukee: A Case Study" 15.1: 5, 8-9 Milwaukee Catalyst 12.3: 25 Milwaukee Minority Ministerial Alliance 12.3: 24-25 "Milwaukee Mirrors National Concerns" 8.4: 5 Milwaukee Preparatory School 10.3: 19; 10.4: 9 Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) 1.3: 2; 2.4: 2; 3.3: 6-7; 4.3: 2; 4.4: 1, 10-11; 5.4: 3, 7; 6.4: 16-18, 22; 17.4: 6 administration 3.1: 6-7; 3.2: 1, 2; 9.4: 2 Advanced Placement 14.1: 17 algebra reform 8.1: 3, 19 alternative/specialty schools 1.3: 7; 2.3: 1, 7 charter schools 8.3: 4 choice program 7.3: 19; 9.3: 4; 13.2: 3 critique of 1.1: 1, 2, 6-7; 5.2: 1, 8-9; 8.3: 14-15, 24 desegregation reforms 1.3: 1, 4; 2.1: 1, 6-7, 8; 4.3: 1, 16-17; 9.3: 5, 26; 12.3: 20-22 discipline in 2.1: 1, 4; 13.1: 16 and EAI 7.4: 15 funding for 3.1: 3; 4.3: 19; 6.2: 1, 16-17; 6.3: 2; 7.1: 10-11; 7.2: 2-3, 23; 7.3: 30- 31; 7.4: 2, 3; 8.1: 19; 8.3: 2; 9.4: 31; 10.3: 4; 12.3: 22; 14.4: 3; 15.3: 10-11 high school admissions 12.2: 2, 28 K-12 curriculum reform 4.1: 3, 14; 5.4: 3; 6.1: 1, 21, 23; 6.3: 10-11; 8.2: 10-11; 8.4: 5, 8-9, 25; 13.1: 12 multiculturalism 15.1: 5, 8-9 other reform efforts 1.2: 3, 7; 2.2: 1, 4, 12-14, 15; 2.3: 7, 15; 3.2: 1, 18-19; 4.1: 4- 5; 6.3: 1, 9-11; 9.3: 17, 19; 10.1: 10-12; 11.1: 12-13; 11.4: 4; 12.3: 2, 24-25; 13.1: 6, 12 parent protests 14.4: 3 performance assessments in 14.4: 1, 14-16 school board 1.2: 2; 3.2: 1, 18-19; 4.1: 3; 4.2: 6; 5.2: 8-9; 5.3: 2; 6.2: 3, 5; 11.1: 12-13; 13.4: 3, 12-13; 17.4: 6 school-to-work reform 8.1: 5; 8.4: 5; 10.3: 1, 22-23; 11.1: 10-11 testing in 2.1: 2; 3.2: 3; 3.3: 1, 10-11; 14.4: 1, 14-16 voucher schools 10.3: 19, 13.4: 25; 14.1: 22; 14.2: 22-23 whole language project 2.3: 2; 2.4: 9; 3.1: 9; 3.2: 6; 3.3: 7, 14 "Milwaukee's Students as 'Crusaders for Justice'" 1.3: 9 Milwaukee Teachers Education Association (MTEA) 3.3: 7; 4.2: 6; 4.3: 3-4; 7.4: 5; 8.1: 11,13; 8.4: 5; 9.3: 2; 11.4: 4 "Milwaukee Voucher Schools Close" 10.3: 19 "Milwaukee: Who Won and Why" (1999 school-board elections) 13.4: 3, 12-13 "Milwaukee: Will Top-Down or Community-Based Reform Prevail?" 12.3: 24 Miner, Barbara "$22 Million Siphoned from MPS to Pay for Private Schools" 13.2: 3 "Aghast Over Aladdin" 7.3: 11 "Algebra for All Ninth Graders" 8.1: 3, 19 "All Eyes Are on California" 8.1: 18 "AP Disparity in the Milwaukee Area" 14.1: 17 "Big Bucks for EAI Bigwigs" 8.2: 19 "Bilingual Education: New Visions for a New Era" 13.4: 1, 18-20 "Bradley Foundation and Milwaukee, The" 8.3: 18 "Budget Cuts Imperil Children" 5.4: 6-7 "Chicago School Reform: Giving Parents Decision-Making Power" 7.3: 6 "Chicago Teacher Paper Under Fire" 13.3: 21 "Coming Soon: The Son of Unz" 13.4: 20 "Complex Web of Conservatives Fosters Movement" 7.2: 5 "Conservatives Attack Anti-Bias Education" 6.2: 3 "Conservatives Unite to Push Parental Rights Legislation" 10.3: 15 "Edison Loses Millions -- Again" 14.1: 21 "Education for Sale?" 7.4: 1, 14-17 "Experimenting with Assessment" 6.3: 8, 23 "Facilities Plan Offers Hope" 6.4: 17 "Federal Spending Vital to Education" 9.4: 22 "For-Profit Firm on the Ropes" 14.3: 13 "For-Profits Target Education" 16.3: 16-17 "Head Start or Head Backwards" 18.1: 17-18 "Internet Filtering: Beware the Cybercensors" 12.4: 1, 10-11 "Is Teaching "La Causa" Grounds for Firing?" 12.3: 6 "Jobs of Tomorrow, The" 14.2: 8 "Keeping Public Schools Public: The Conservative Connection" 17.4: 5-6 "Keeping Public Schools Public: Privatizers' Trojan Horse" 17.3: 5 "Keeping Public Schools Public: Tuition Tax Credits: Vouchers in Disguise" 17.2: 5 "Keeping Public Schools Public: Voucher Decision Opens Pandora's Box" 17.1: 5 "Know the Law" (censorship) 12.3: 7 "MPS Revamps Admissions Policies for High Schools" 11.1: 12-13 "MPS Suspensions Skyrocket" 13.1: 17 "Michigan Reforms School Funding" 9.4: 12-14 "Milwaukee Voucher Schools Close" 10.3: 19 "Milwaukee: Will Top-Down or Community-Based Reform Prevail?" 12.3: 24 "Myth of Private School Superiority" 9.2: 13 "National Summit: What Wasn't Said" 14.2: 9 "Nationwide Protests Against Tests" 15.4: 6 "New Directions for the Bradley Foundation" 8.3: 19 "New Paint on an Old Jalopy" 5.4: 5 "No TV Week at La Escuela Fratney" 5.3: 5 "Ohio Organizers Launch "Third Grade Guarantee"" 8.4: 13 "Parents Protest Budget Cuts" 14.4: 3 "Power and the Money, The: Bradley Foundation Bankrolls Conservative Agenda" 8.3: 1, 16-20 "Privately Funded Vouchers Proliferate" 7.2: 4-5, 23 "Problems and Potentials of MPS School- to-Work" 8.1: 5 "Problems Escalate at [Milw.] Voucher Schools" 10.4: 9 "Protecting Our Children" 6.4: 1, 8-9 "Reading, Writing, and Censorship" 12.3: 4-7 "Rifts Grow in Voucher Movement" 10.1: 3, 26 "School Board Bows to Bigotry" 6.2: 3, 5 "Splits on the Right" 10.3: 1, 11-15 "Splits Widen Within Wisconsin Voucher Movement" 11.4: 10 "Stealth Book of the 1990s?: Bell Curve, The" 12.4: 4 "Students Learn Best in Small Classes" 6.2: 15 "Supreme Court Debates Vouchers" 16.3: 3, 25 "Teachers Evaluating Teachers" 6.3: 3, 5 "Testing: Full Speed Ahead" 14.2: 3, 8-10 "To Improve Bilingual Ed ..." 13.4: 19 "Tough Times Under Tommy" 5.4: 1, 9 "Visit to a Channel One Classroom, A" 6.4: 13 "Voucher Backers Illegally Funnel Money to Supreme Court Campaign" 14.4: 5 "Voucher School CEO Sentenced to Jail" 14.4: 5 "Voucher Schools Overpaid $11 Million" 15.1: 13 "Vouchers: Special Ed Students Need Not Apply" 18.2: 7-9 "Vouchers in Legal Limbo" 13.2: 3 "Voucher's Money Man" 16.1: 8-9 "What Now for the Voucher Movement?" 8.2: 19 "What's for Lunch?" 9.2: 4, 17 "Which Way for Chapter 220?" 9.3: 5, 26 "Who Owns the Wealth?" 9.4: 27 "Who's Who in MPS Reform" 12.3:25 "Whittle Changes His Tune" 7.4: 17 "Why the Secrecy?" 14.1: 22 "Will Education Alternatives Come to Milwaukee?" 7.4: 15 "Wisconsin Joins the Charter School Bandwagon" 8.1: 20 "Wisconsin Mandates Native Curricula" 6.1: 5 "Wisconsin Reports on Voucher Program" 14.3: 13 "Minneapolis to Reduce Class Sizes" 5.3: 1, 16 Minnesota and choice 4.1: 10 Minneapolis schools 5.3: 1, 16 school funding 9.4: 18, 33 schools 2.3: 6; 7.4: 14-15 minorities group names 6.1: 9; 10.1: 24 resources on 6.2: 22-23 students 11.1: 3 Miranda, Sami "Yours, Mine, or Ours?" 13.4: 10, 11 "Misery Is Fun" 12.3: 10-11 Miss Saigon (musical) 11.3: 22, 26 Mississippi school funding 9.4: 18, 33 schools 12.3: 16-19 "Mississippi Freedom Schools" 12.3: 16-19 Missouri school funding 9.4: 18, 32 St. Louis schools 3.2: 10 Mitchell, Susan 8.3: 14-15, 24; 10.1: 3, 26 Michie, Greg "See You When We Get There" 18.2: 39-42 "Mixed-Ability Schooling: A Radical Proposition" 5.1: 12 Modern Language Association 8.2: 9 Modern School Movement 10.2: 9 Moe, Terry 5.2: 3-4; 8.3: 14 Molnar, Alex 8.1: 20; 11.1: 23 "Case for Smaller Classes, The" (interview) 14.4: 4, 11 "Fears About Business Involvement" 7.1: 7 "Risky Business" 5.2: 13 "Money Matters" 10.3: 2 "Money, Schools, and Justice" 18.1: 26-30 "Monkeys, Pouches, and Reading" (high-stakes tests) 13.3: 9, 19 monolingualism 8.2: 24-25 Montana, school funding 9.4: 18, 33 Montclair, N.J. schools 8.1: 16-17 "Montclair Finds Many Pieces to "Detracking" Puzzle" 8.1: 16-17 "Montessori Alternative: Reading Without the Basal" 1.3: 8 Montessori schools 1.3: 8 Moody, Anne 10.2: 16 Moore, Gary T. "Blueprints for School Success" 7.4: 21 Morales, Jennifer "Apple Tries to Censor History" 9.3: 7 "Buying Minds" 9.4: 11 "Fasting for Funding" 8.1: 13 "Massachusetts Policy Protects Gay/Lesbian Students" 8.2: 12 "Really Rich White Guys" 9.4: 6 "Sex Harassment Rampant in Schools" 7.4: 17 "School to War?" 8.4: 13 "Wisconsin Explores Funding Alternatives" 8.3: 4 morality teaching 8.4: 1, 10, 23, 26; 10.3: 20 "More Is Not Better" 11.3: 18, 26 Morrison, Toni 12.1: 20 Moses, Wendy "Testing the Limits of Privacy" 16.4: 28 "Mother Speaks Out, A" (gay/lesbian students) 13.1: 22 "Motivating Students to Do Quality Work" 12.3: 1, 14-15 movie reviews Aladdin (Disney), reviewed by Barbara Miner 7.3: 11 Forrest Gump, reviewed by Robert Lowe 9.1: 21 Mulan (Disney), reviewed by Chyng Feng Sun 13.1: 18 Newsies (Disney), reviewed by Stan Karp 6.4: 20 Pocahontas (Disney), reviewed by Cornel Pewewardy 10.1: 19 Rosewood (John Singleton, director), reveiwed by Larry Miller 11.4: 23 Spellbound (ThinkFilm), reviewed by Bill Resnick 18.1: 48 Squanto (Disney), reviewed by Joseph Bruchac 9.2: 26 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, reviewed by Bob Peterson 4.4: 5-6 "Moving Beyond Media Literacy" 14.2: 26 "Moving Beyond the Name Games" (history standards) 10.4: 16-17 "Moving Beyond Tired" (teacher organizing) 14.1: 8 "Mulan's Mixed Messages" 13.1: 18 multi-age classrooms 13.1: 7, 22 multiculturalism 6.1: 6-7, 9; 7.3: 8-11; 8.1: 16; 10.2: 8-9; 15.1: 3; 15.1: 12; 16.1: 4 critique of 6.2: 3; 7.3: 11; 8.2: 8; 9.2: 18-19; 12.4: 12 examples of 3.2: 4; 5.1: 5, 16; 6.1: 18-19; 7.3: 25-27; 7.4: 8-10, 23; 9.3: 12-13; 12.4: 12-13, 22-23; 16.2: 8-9; 18.2: 26-27 reasons for 4.4: 3-4; 5.2: 7, 16-18; 6.1: 1, 7; 6.4: 3, 15; 7.1: 4-5; 7.3: 8, 16-17, 31; 8.1: 8; 9.3: 7; 15.1: 3; 18.2: 26-27 and standards 13.4: 6-7; 15.1: 4, 6-7 Murray, Charles 8.3: 18-19; 9.2: 1, 14-16; 9.4: 24; 12.4: 4 Murray, Nancy "Is the Playing Field Really Level?" 5.2: 7 "Sharing the Movement (Project HIP HOP)" 15.3: 8-9 Murrell, Jr., Peter 3.2: 3 "Book Review: Becoming a Nation of Readers" 1.1: 3 "North Division District Plan" 2.2: 1, 4, 15 "Superintendent's Stance on Separate District Assailed" 2.3: 15 "What Standardized Tests Do Not Measure" 1.2: 13 museums and bias 16.2: 8-9 music and bias 8.4: 14-15 rap 8.4: 14-15; 12.2: 16-17, 19 and social justice teaching 8.3: 6-8, 10; 17.3: 13 Muslim Students 11.2: 1, 6-7 "My Daughter, Child #008458743" 14.2: 10 "My Mom's Job Is Important" 5.3: 10-11 "Myth of Private School Superiority" 9.2: 13
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