Volume 19, No.3

Spring 2005

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  • Some Favorite Books for Young Children

    By the editors of Rethinking Schools

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  • Framing the Family Tree

    How teachers can be sensitive to students' family situations

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  • Welcoming Kalenna

    An early childhood teacher strives to make all her students feel at home

    By Laura Linda Negri-Pool

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  • Strawberry Fields Forever?

    An early childhood teacher draws on her past while teaching children of migrant farmworkers

    By Cirila Ramírez

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  • Testing Lang

    By Amy Gutowski

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  • Holding Nyla

    An inclusion classroom becomes the stage for learning and acceptance

    By Katie Kissinger

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  • What About Play?

    When "screen time" and drills replace open-ended play, kids lose out

    By Sharna Olfman

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  • Confession

    Not only do my students play in the classroom, but it's good for them

    By Seth Shteir

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  • Exploring Our Urban Wilderness

    A second and third-grade teacher helps his students discover the natural world in their urban environment

    By Mark Hansen

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  • Heather’s Moms Got Married

    Second graders talk about gay marriage

    By Mary Cowhey

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  • ‘Is This Just Regular English?’

    An English teacher examines how tracking affects her students

    By Esmé Schwall

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  • The Recruitment Minefield

    Critical literacy activities can protect students against predatory military recruiting

    By Bill Bigelow

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  • Integrals and Equity

    A math lesson prompts new awareness for prep school students-and their teacher

    By Megan Staples

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  • No Child Left Untested: Closing the Door on Our Kids

    By Wayne Au

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  • We Are the World

    A call for solidarity among teachers around the world to combat forces of globalization and privatization

    By Mary Compton

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  • What Can One Elementary Teacher In Anytown, U.S.A. Do?

    By Mary Cowhey

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  • Our picks for books, videos, websites, and other social justice resources 19.3

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

  • Short Stuff 19.3

    As Seen on TV Sylvan Learning Center, the nation’s largest tutoring company, is adding a new component to its widespread advertising campaign. Sylvan’s parent company, Educate Inc., gained another popular […]

  • Strange Stuff 19.3

    Abstinence Inaccuracy Federally funded abstinence-only sex education programs are leaving students misinformed, according to California Rep. Henry A. Waxman’s recent Congressional study. The study examined the content of sex education […]

  • Student Voices 19.3

    Students Share Perspectives on Their Small School

  • Tips for Teachers

    By Laura Linda Negri-Pool

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  • Resources on Family Diversity

    All Families Are DifferentBy Sol Gordon (Prometheus Books, 2000) 50 pp. $10.50 Clinical psychologist Sol Gordon provides an adult voice in this book for readers ages seven and up. Families are defined […]

  • Do You Get the Point?

    By Herbert Kohl

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  • The Tsunami and Other Disasters

    By the Editors of Rethinking Schools

    The Dec. 26 tsunami swept away the lives of more than 200,000 people and ravaged the livelihoods of millions more. Throughout the world teachers and students discussed the tsunami and […]

  • California’s Grassroots Grow

    By Amalia Oulahan

    Sacramento On Aug. 13, 2004, the California Supreme Court settled a historic case— Williams v. the State of California. The Williams decision validated the concerns of many Californians that the state had fallen […]

  • Book Review: Messing With Texas

    Leaving Children Behind kicks up dust in the lone star state

    By Wayne Au

    Leaving Children Behind:  How “Texas-style” Accountability Fails Latino YouthEdited by Angela Valenzuela State University of New York Press, 2005  313 pp. $73.50 “Everything is bigger in Texas,” the saying goes. Apparently it’s true. […]