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February 5, 2010

Charter Schools: Resegregating America?

Are charter schools helping to resegregate public schools? A just-released study states flatly that they are.

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Race & Ethnicity Rights & Activism

February 3, 2010

‘LGBT Content. Access Denied’

A couple of years ago, an acquaintance who worked at the local college where I was teaching had trouble sending and receiving emails. She couldn’t, for the life of her, figure out why. Then an IT administrator clued her in: Her first name—Gay—triggered the school’s Internet filters. They were set to block any references to homosexuality, gender identity, etc.

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Gender & Sexual Identity Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism

January 29, 2010

Remembering Howard Zinn

As a young newspaper reporter in Texas, I covered my fair share of speeches. The thrill of hearing an important person give carefully prepared remarks wore off quickly. So I got in the habit of turning away from the speaker and watching the crowd.

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Rights & Activism

January 29, 2010

Taking A Stand Against Sexual Bullying

The United States Justice Department recently struck a blow against bullying behavior. Officials there reversed a decade-old policy and asked to intervene in a harassment suit brought by a gay youth.

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Gender & Sexual Identity Bullying & Bias

January 26, 2010

Discipline That Works

Earlier this month, hundreds of educators, parents and students gathered at the Educating Youth of Color Summit in Colorado Springs, Colo. That the state’s 4th Judicial District sponsored the event was no accident.

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Race & Ethnicity

January 20, 2010

Texas Tears Up Textbooks

Texas is in the throes of rewriting the curriculum standards for its K-12 textbooks. And that is something to be very, very worried about.

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Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

January 15, 2010

MLK: More Than Just A Dream

Every year around Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the news media start quoting his “I Have A Dream” speech. There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s a great speech – certainly one of the best ever given in the cause of civil rights.

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Rights & Activism

Issue 37, Spring 2010

Reason, Purpose & Triumph

Part of the Why I Teach essay series.

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