New Orleans students find hospitality; foul sports chants; learning Lakota; and a glimpse of America's prison camps
Departments
'We Share One World'
'Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.'
-- Charlotte Bronte, 1816-1855
Papalotzin and the Monarchs: A Bilingual Border Tale
The day finally arrived when the Great North built a Great Wall to separate itself from the Great South. Nothing and no one was allowed to pass anymore, not even the clouds, or the wind that once flowed from one side of the sky to the other.
Feature Articles
Cooperative Learning
A foundation for race dialogue
New Orleans, Texas
One year after Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of thousands of displaced students remain scattered in schools across the nation. In Houston, which has the largest concentration of evacuees, two schools continue helping displaced students adjust to new surroundings -- and honor what was lost or left behind.
'We were still the enemy'
Kenji Ima recalls life in America's World War II prison camps, while his daughter works with a Seattle-based educational theater company to share the story of a nation's intolerance toward its Japanese American neighbors.
Learning Lakota
For a high school on South Dakota's Rosebud Reservation, culturally responsive curriculum may be the best antidote to the violence, poverty and growing cultural disconnect hindering student success.
Ivory Tower: Lessons for a Teacher
Veteran teacher Dottie Blais writes openly about a question that too often is left unspoken and unanswered: How does a teacher's whiteness get in the way of successful multicultural education?
2-4-6-HATE
Across the nation, schools struggle to celebrate athletic spirit without sinking to cheers and chants steeped in intolerance.
