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Tender Warriors
The Dilemma of ‘Inherent’ Inequality and the Personal Toll of Integration
Two books chronicling the lives of the first students of color to attend white-only Southern schools.
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Student Voices
School System Shock This is my senior year, a time in my life when I am supposed to exhale, to feel like I have accomplished something. When I graduate, I […]
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Equal Opportunity and the Federal Role in Education
A Response to the Conservative Attack
An in-depth look at some of the major assumptions behind calls for paring down federal school policies, and a discussion of the role the federal government should play in assuring educational equity.
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Arranged Marriages, Rearranged Ideas
One teacher’s efforts to deal with the issues and value judgments raised by a student whose culture calls for arranged marriages.
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Equity, Not Abandonment, Should Drive Federal Policy
In response to the freedom movement of the 1960s, the federal government made an unprecedented effort to equalize educational opportunity. It created a variety of programs that targeted those who […]
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Welfare ‘Reforms’ Threaten Children
Struggles Shift to Local Level as Washington Ducks Responsibility
A synopsis of the devastating impact that welfare “reform” could have on educational opportunities for disadvantaged children and adults.
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Writing ‘Essays with an Attitude’
Teaching for equity and justice is more important than ever.
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Teaching the Whole Story
One School’s Struggle Toward Gay and Lesbian Inclusion
A chronicle of one elementary school’s struggles over teaching about gays and lesbians.
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Students Walk Out Over Anti-Gay Resolution
Students protest in Elizabethtown, PA.
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Preaching Ain’t Teaching
Sex Education and America’s New Puritans
An examination of “abstinence-only” sex education programs casts doubt on whether they really encourage students to postpone sexual activity.
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A Review of Sexuality, Commitment and Family
A close-up look at a popular “just say no” sex education curriculum.
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Reader Commentary: Progressives Should Support Charter Public Schools
America’s public education system often does not prize progress or reward risk-takers. In fact, the system often frustrates innovative, talented teachers and caring, committed parents. The charter public school movement […]
Volume 11, No.2
Winter 1996/1997
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