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Book Review: “The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire”
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The Legacy of the Wide-Awakes and the Hijacking of the American Populist Tradition
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Supporting the Mexican Dream in Chiapas
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Learning to Teach the Middle East, Palestine, and Sabra and Shatila
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Claiming Space for History Teaching in a Whitewashing World
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Am I Too Darn Old – For What?
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When Religion was Radical: The Antebellum Years and Social Reform Traditions
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PBL Assignment: Immigration Reform Now
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Rearticulating the Renaissance as a Global Process
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Defamiliarizing the Idea of the Modern: Where Do We Begin World History?
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Interrogating European Exceptionalism: The Scientific Revolution
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Where “Southern Heritage” Falls Short
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“Response to Intervention”—An Excuse to Deny Services to Students with Learning Disabilities?
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Beyond the Edge – Climbing Mt. EdReform
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Teacher Team Offers New Vision of Responsibility
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Washington State Democratic Party Committee Votes to Reject Common Core
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Inside Training Document Reveals How Test-Supporters Want to Talk About Testing
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The Importance of the Arts to Students with Disabilities
Video from Schoolhouse Live
#DearBetsy
Wendy Davis on holding Betsy DeVos accountable for the needs of sexual assault survivors and all students.
Common Core
The Wisdom and Wit of Diane Ravitch: A Review
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By Anthony Cody. We think of historians as observers after the fact. They pore over the ephemeral and permanent records of past times and, from that …
Interviews
Montel Williams: “Just Let Teachers Teach!”
By Anthony Cody. Last week as I was tweeting in support of the Newark Students Union occupation of their state-appointed administrator’s office, I …
Newark Mayoral Candidate Ras Baraka: ‘I Will Lead a Full Scale Campaign for Local Control of Schools’
Guest Posts
Teachers and Students Still Trapped Going Up the Down Staircase
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By John Thompson. Bel Kaufman’s Up the Down Staircase (1965) is the teachers’ and students’ Catch-22 (1961). She captures the fecklessness of …
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