COVER THEME
Performance Test for New Teachers
A Forum On The edTPA
Free The Role of Performance Assessment in Developing Teaching as a Profession
The edTPA will lead to better teachers and more professional respect.
Free Wrong Answer to the Wrong Question
Why we need critical teacher education, not standardization
The edTPA distorts the teacher education process and opens the door to Pearson Inc. reaping more profits and power.
Free What's a Nice Test Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
EdTPA and corporate education “reform”
The dangers to the teaching profession are real, but is edTPA the solution?
OTHER FEATURES
Our Grandparents' Civil Rights Era
Family letters bring history to life
Second graders ask grandparents to write about their experiences during the Civil Rights Movement. The letters bring surprising wisdom— and some thought-provoking issues—to the classroom.
Stealing Home
Eminent domain, urban renewal, and the loss of community
The historic destruction of the Chávez Ravine neighborhood in Los Angeles—to build Dodger Stadium—paves the way for students to understand changes in their own neighborhood. Second in a two-part series.
Free Rethinking the Day of Silence
When the Day of Silence doesn't work at a middle school, staff and students look for another way to talk about LGBTQ issues.
Free “Coal Poisons Everything It Touches”
Coal, climate, and the future of the Earth
Ninth graders explore a plan to strip-mine coal in Wyoming and Montana, send it by train to the Northwest, then ship it to Asia to be burned.
Ban the Box!
A role play on mass incarceration
Should the box about criminal history be eliminated from job applications? A role play helps students explore the lifelong impact of a felony conviction.
DEPARTMENTS
Free Editorial
The Trouble with the Common Core
Free Action Education
School Closures Rock Philadelphia
Free Short Stuff
Update from Seattle: Test Boycott Victory
Crisis at City College of San Francisco
Free Good Stuff
Navigating Gender and Sexuality
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