Edited by Linda Christensen and Stan Karp
Rethinking School Reform puts classrooms and teaching
at the center of the debate over how to improve public schools. This
new collection offers a primer on a broad range of pressing issues,
including school vouchers and funding, multiculturalism, standards and
testing, teacher unions, bilingual education, and federal education
policy.
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Preface by Sonia Nieto — iii
Introduction — vi
Part 1 — CRITICAL TEACHING
- Rethinking Our Classrooms: Teaching for Equity and Justice
— 3
by the Editors of Rethinking Schools
- Untracking English —10
by Linda Christensen
- Unsung Heroes — 33
by Howard Zinn
- Teaching About Unsung Heroes — 37
by Bill Bigelow
- The Truth About Helen Keller — 45
by Ruth Shagoury Hubbard
- Acting for Justice — 53
by Linda Christensen
- One Teacher’s Journey — 60
by Bob Peterson
Part 2 — TAKING BIAS SERIOUSLY
- Ebonics and Cuturally Responsive Instruction — 79
by Lisa Delpit
- Once Upon a Genocide: Columbus in Children's Literature
— 89
by Bill Bigelow
- Arranged Marriages, Rearranged Ideas — 103
by Stan Karp
- Presidents and Slaves: Helping Students Find the Truth—
115
by Bob Peterson
- Unlearning the Myths that Bind Us — 126
by Linda Christensen
- What Color is Beautiful? — 138
by Alejandro Segura-Mora
- Out Front — 144
by Annie Johnston
Part 3 — EDUCATION POLICY AND POLITICS
- Schools More Separate: A Decade of Resegregration —
155
by Gary Orfield
- Neighborhood Schools: Déjà Vu — 165
by Bob Lowe
- “Choice” and Other White Lies — 170
by Makani Themba-Nixon
- For-Profits Target Education — 176
by Barbara Miner
- Learning to Read “Scientifically” — 184
by Gerald Coles
- Bush’s Bad Idea for Bilingual Education — 192
by Stephen Krashen
- Let Them Eat Tests: NCLB and Federal Education Policy —
199
by Stan Karp
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Part 4 — STANDARDS AND TESTING
- The Educational Costs of Standardization — 215
by Linda McNeil
- Race, Testing and the Miner’s Canary — 225
by Lani Guinier
- Standards and Multiculturalism — 231
by Bill Bigelow
- Testing Slights Multiculturalism — 240
by Makani Themba-Nixon
- Teaching in Dangerous Times — 242
by Gloria Ladson-Billings
- Their Report Card — And Ours — 252
by Portland Area Rethinking Schools
Part 5 — ROADS TO REFORM
- Drive-by School Reform
by Stan Karp — 259
- Reconstituting Jefferson: Lessons on School Reform
by Linda Christensen — 266
- Money, Schools and Justice
by Stan Karp — 275
- Teacher Councils: Tools for Change
by Bob Peterson — 287
- “Summer Camp” for Teachers: Alternative Staff
Development by S. J. Childs — 297
- Survival and Justice: Twin Goals for Teacher Unions
by Bob Peterson — 305
- Confronting Racism, Promoting Respect
by Tom McKenna — 315
- Editors — 325
- Contributors — 326
- Index — 329
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