Invoking “accountability” and “competitiveness” to justify homework

By the editors of Rethinking Schools

For predatory "disaster capitalists," Hurricane Katrina was another opportunity to cash in on disaster, and the resulting chaos has left schools fragmented and confused.

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

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

Reading injustice, celebrating solidarity

An interview with Shakoor Aljuwani of the Common Ground Collective

A union leader speaks out against the injustice in New Orleans

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

A year in the life of a New Orleans schoolteacher

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

Remembering Eric Rofes (1954~2006)

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

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

Florida’s new law undermines critical thinking

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

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

A film on Mexican teachers presents an activist, hopeful vision of unionism