A collection of newspaper articles about teaching children that it was not Columbus who first discovered America.

Rethinking Columbus

Bob Peterson

Other Contributor-Bill Bigelow

Rethinking Schools, Ltd.

False Choices: Why School Vouchers Threaten Our Childrens Futures

Lowe, Robert

This collection of articles on critical teaching and effective classroom practice (K-12) includes creative teaching ideas, compelling classroom narratives, and hands-on examples of ways teachers can promote values of community, justice, and equality -- and build academic skills. Includes poems, student handouts, resources, lesson plans, role-plays, and teaching skills to combat racism and develop students' critical skills. Over 90,000 copies sold!

Rethinking Our Classrooms: Teaching for Equity and Justice

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

This is a revised and expanded edition of a popular 1991 booklet that changed the way "the discovery of America" is taught in classroom and community settings. The new edition has over 100 pp. of new material, including a role-play trial of Columbus, materials on Thanksgiving Day, resources, historical documents, poetry, and more. It will help readers replace murky legends with a better sense of who we are and why we are here -- and celebrates over 500 years of the courageous struggles and lasting wisdom of native peoples.

Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years

Bill Bigelow

Funding for Justice presents the complicated issues of school finance in readable form for teachers, parents, and policymakers alike. Packed with information, background, and analysis on school funding and equity.

Funding for Justice: Money, Equity, and the Future of Public Education

PETERSON, Robert W.

Karp, Stan

This stimulating anthology weaves together issues of teacher unionism, classroom reform, working with local communities, and social justice. Includes exemplary practices of teacher unions from the local to the national level. Useful for anyone working in or with teacher unions today.

Transforming Teacher Unions: Fighting for Better Schools and Social Justice

Business & Money

Economics

The long arm of standardized testing is reaching into every nook and cranny of education. Yet relying on standardized tests distorts student learning, exacerbates inequities for low-income students and students of color, and undermines true accountability. Failing Our Kids includes more than 50 articles that provide a compelling critique of standardized tests and also outline alternative ways to assess how well our children are learning.

Failing Our Kids: Why the Testing Craze Won't Fix Our Schools

Swope, Kathy

Miner, Barb

The new companion volume to the original Rethinking Our Classrooms is packed with compelling articles about teaching, as well as curriculum ideas, lesson plans, and resources, all grounded in the realities of the classroom. Like the bestselling first volume, Rethinking Our Classrooms, Volume 2 is an invaluable tool for educators striving to promote social justice and high-quality student learning.

Rethinking Our Classrooms: Teaching For Equity and Justice - Volume 2

Whose Wars?: Teaching About the Iraq War And the War on Terrorism

UNKNOWN

The Line Between Us explores the history of U.S-Mexican relations and the roots of Mexican immigration, all in the context of the global economy. And it shows how teachers can help students understand the immigrant experience and the drama of border life. But The Line Between Us is about more than Mexican immigration and border issues. It's about imaginative and creative teaching that gets students to care about the world. Using role plays, stories, poetry, improvisations, simulations and video, veteran teacher Bill Bigelow demonstrates how to combine lively teaching with critical analysis. “Exactly what we need,” says writer Luis Rodríguez.

The Line Between Us: Teaching About the Border and Mexican Immigration

Education & Reference

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