Volume 21, No.1

Fall 2006

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  • The Tougher Standards Fad Hits Home

    Invoking “accountability” and “competitiveness” to justify homework

    By Alfie Kohn

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  • Educational Land Grab

    By the editors of Rethinking Schools

    For predatory disaster capitalists

  • Dismantling a Community

    In Katrina’s wake, a baffling array of school systems has been created. A timeline compiled by Leigh Dingerson, the Center for Community Change

    By Leigh Dingerson

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

  • Voices from the Big Uneasy

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  • Hurricane Katrina

    Reading injustice, celebrating solidarity

    By Linda Christensen

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  • Solidarity Not Charity

    An interview with Shakoor Aljuwani of the Common Ground Collective

    By Larry Miller

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  • It Is About All of Us

    A union leader speaks out against the injustice in New Orleans

    By Brenda Mitchell

    Excerpts from a speech by the president of United Teachers of New Orleans.

  • Into the Flood and Out Again

    A year in the life of a New Orleans schoolteacher

    By LauraElizabeth Adelman-Cannon

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  • Exploding the Privatization Myth

    Charter and private schools are no better than public schools and sometimes worse

    By Barbara Miner

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  • Socrates, Plato, Eric and Guys Like Me

    Remembering Eric Rofes (1954~2006)

    By Jeff Sapp

    Remembering educator and activist Eric Rofes (1954~2006).

  • Overhauling NCLB

    It’s time to mobilize for an education law that actually improves schools

    By Monty Neill

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  • Deepening Democracy

    How one school’s fairness committee offers an alternative to “discipline”

    By Maria Hantzopoulos

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  • Fear of History

    Florida’s new law undermines critical thinking

    By Robert Jensen

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  • Bringing Globalization Home

    A high school teacher helps immigrant students draw on their own expertise

    By Jody Sokolower

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  • Rethinking School Readiness

    An entire community comes together to discuss how to make schools work for children

    By Debra R. Sullivan

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  • Rethinking Teacher Unions

    A lot has changed in the 20 years since Rethinking Schools was born

    By Bob Peterson

    RS has always pushed unions to transform schools, and themselves.

  • Resources 21.1

    By Bill Bigelow and Deborah Menkart

    Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.

  • Reviews 21.1

    By Wayne Au

    Books Hip-Hop Comes of Age Can’t Stop Won’t Stop:A History of the Hip Hop GenerationBy Jeff Chang(St. Martin’s Press, 2005)546 pp. $27.95 Angry Black White Boy,Or the Miscegenation of Macon […]

  • Help

    Josh Langworthy, a junior at Grant High School in Portland, Oregon, wrote the following essay about his “every day hero” during our Katrina unit. In addition to paying tribute to a woman who deserves it, Josh’s story also provides lessons for teachers. Who are the students in our classrooms? What are their stories? As much as NCLB would like to turn students into test scores, they arrive with a history that might help us teach them — and reach them — more effectively.

  • To: My City

    By Keva Carr

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  • Honoring Community

    By Ashley Jones

    The following articles are from participants in the Students at the Center (SAC) program

  • Does Anybody Know?

    By Katrena Jackson-Ndang

    On Saturday, July 15, 2006, at about 1:00 p.m., dark clouds gathered and lightning and thunderbolts filled the New Orleans sky. One hour later the sky opened and dropped buckets […]

  • Getting School Ready

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  • Good Stuff 21.1

    By Herbert Kohl

    Why Monkeys Live in Trees and Other Stories from BeninBy Raouf Mama(Curbstone Press, 2006)90 pp. $10.36 (paperback) Holding Values: What We Meanby Progressive EducationEdited by Brenda S. Engel and Anne […]

  • Immigration Story

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