Number 24: Fall 2003

Cover art by The Tibetan Lamas of Drepung Loseling Monastery

Examine the needs of students with limited English proficiency. Learn new classroom strategies addressing adoptive families. Explore the life of Helen Keller as portrayed in children's books. Get involved in Mix it Up at Lunch. Look at the contemporary lessons of a 1920 lynching. And more.

Departments

'Diversity Education'

This important and essential work begins in the classrooms of teachers like you.

Feature Articles

It Happened Here

Duluth residents face the painful lessons of a 1920 lynching.

MIX IT UP: Students Bridge Social Boundaries

Last November more than 3,000 schools accepted the challenge to sit somewhere new.

Out of the Shadows

Adoptive families seek to transform classroom strategies.

Margins of Error

The needs of limited English proficiency students put special education assessment to the test.

Who's Helen Keller?

Do children's books distort the truth of Helen Keller's life?

Let's Just Play

Preserve a child's right to create and explore.

A Standard to Sustain

Vermont students claim their legacy of participatory democracy.