Victory Forever?
White supremacist groups might be thuggish and stupid on a lot of fronts, but they can be pretty clever about promoting themselves. High school newspapers in California and Indiana recently found out that the hard way.
Something Yule Want To Do At The Holidays
I once had an elementary school teacher who tried a multicultural approach to the holiday season. She told my class about Hanukkah, which she described as being a kind of “Jewish Christmas.” This fascinated us until we discovered that the gift-giving aspect of Hanukkah was spread out over several days. As fans of Santa Claus, we couldn’t help thinking that Jewish kids must have it tough.
Do We Really Want A ‘Race to the Top’?
"Though the rise of the hedge-fund managers as charter school operators may distress us, it thrills others because it dovetails so perfectly with the Obama administration's Race to the Top. I don't know about you, but I am getting sick of the rhetoric of the Race to the Top, as it implies the very opposite of ‘equal educational opportunity.’..."
Ending Child Abuse At School
As a kid, I remember listening wide-eyed to my grandmother tell me about the “Dummy Room.” The Dummy Room was one of her first assignments as a young teacher in small-town Iowa in the 1930s. Like other Dummy Rooms across the country, it was the dumping ground for the school district’s hard cases.
The People Speak
I first picked up Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States when I was in college. It was a revelation. For the first time, I felt like I was reading about real Americans as they made their way through history.
