Recently added articles from Radical Teacher:
Correction.(Correction notice)
Sep 22, 2009; ... CORRECTION: In Radical Teacher # 84, Teaching and Immigration, the institution in Carolina Bank ...
Introduction to the teaching about the upper class mini-cluster: the upper class are everywhere in American history and in the literary canon, just not often discussed as a class, and therefore not understood as part of a class system ... you would think it is all right for the rich to orchestrate the history of the rest of us, so long as they behave.(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2009; Ohmann, Richard ... In the three contributions here, Richie Zweigenhaft discusses his college course about the upper class, Pepi Leistyna gives us a comprehensive multimedia bibliography on ruling elites, and Emily Drabinski offers an analysis of the invisibility and obfuscation of class issues in library ...
Teaching an interdisciplinary course on the American Upper Class.(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; Zweigenhaft, Richie ... I teach a course titled the American Upper Class. I first taught the course in the early 1980s after having spent the previous few years writing about the extent to which Jews were and were not allowed into the Protestant Establishment. Drawing especially on the work of E. Digby Baltzell, ...
Exposing the ruling class in the United States using television and documentary film.
Sep 22, 2009; Leistyna, Pepi ... Graduate students in my Cross-Cultural Perspectives class at the University of Massachusetts Boston, which has a predominantly working-class student population, usually do not know what I mean by "riding class" when I talk about power politics in the United States. Some are suspicious or ...
Teaching about class in the library.
Sep 22, 2009; Drabinski, Emily ... Structures of social and economic class are notoriously difficult for students to see, laboring as they do under the powerful myth that America is a country of endless opportunity, where anyone can triumph over obstacles to be anything they want to be. This is the rhetoric emanating ...
Teaching immigration at Borough of Manhattan Community College.(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; Hayduk, Ron ... I came to the topic of immigration through my experience in the anti-apartheid and Latin American solidarity movements during the 1980s. As a student, the horrible violations of human rights in South Africa and Central America that led many to flee from their homelands were matched only by ...
Teaching the literature of revolution.(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; Barrows, Adam ... Any truly radical shift in U.S. politics requires the mobilization of widespread social protest. Given the untrammeled abuses of Machtpolitik during the Bush years, with its unapologetic electoral fraud, its attack on the remnants of New Deal and Great Society liberalism, its aggressive ...
What does neoliberalism have to do with teaching research writing?(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; Downing, David B. ... I. When Research and Writing Confront the Disappearance of History Ask any progressive educator the question posed by my title, and you won't have to wait long for an answer: everything. From the size of the class, to the quality of the computer lab, to the costs of textbooks, ...
Strike while the iron's hot: using the internet and current events for political engagement.(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; Windle, Joel ... This paper outlines my classroom experiences with a group of secondary school students of French, and it focuses on the development of approaches for encouraging critical political engagement which can be applied to other educational settings. The context here is a government school in ...
Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Fassbinder, Samuel Day ... Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School. By Andrew Hartman (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) The purpose that this book sets out for itself is to chronicle an intellectual history of American education, showing how educational and ...
Change of Course: The Education of Jessie Adamson.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Beck, Evelyn Torton ... Change of Course: The Education of Jessie Adamson By Margaret M. Blanchard (New York: Bloomington: iUniverse, Inc. 2008) Margaret M. Blanchard, educator and author, modestly describes Change of Course as "a novel of ideas." While it undeniably is that, it ...
Capitalizing on Disaster: Taking and Breaking Public Schools.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Stamm, Tara M. ... Capitalizing on Disaster: Taking and Breaking Public Schools By Kenneth J. Saltman (Paradigm Publishers, 2007) Capitalizing on Disaster: Taking and Breaking Public Schools is a much-needed critique of public school privatization. The book is essential ...
Mad at history.(Teaching Notes)(teaching African American Heritage in college)
Sep 22, 2009; Spencer, Robyn C. ... I was unsure what to expect from Lehman College's Freshman Year Initiative (FYI) Program. FYI was designed to bridge the transition from high school to college by providing reinforced academic support, mentorship opportunities, and integrated courses. While many described it as a very ...
Reflections of an associate teacher.(Teaching Notes)
Sep 22, 2009; Harris, L.A. ... It is with full clarity that I now appreciate the impact and trickle down effect that poverty has on parenting. See, I am a single mom of a wonderful nearly 7-year-old boy. And I do mean wonderful. Today, however, I punished him for not remembering to give his teacher a note. He has ...
Books by Radical Teacher collective members.(News for Educational Workers)("Economic Meltdown Funnies")(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Nick Thorkelson, former Radical Teacher layout and design artist, has published (with text by Chuck Collins), the very funny Economic Meltdown Funnies (December 2008, www.economicmeltdownfunnies.org), a co-production of Jobs with Justice and the Institute for Policy ...
K-12.(News for Educational Workers)
Sep 22, 2009; ... In the mostly white suburb of Greece in Rochester, New York, police arrested and jailed a woman of color for using her mother's suburban address and enrolling her children in the Greece public schools, although she and her children lived in the city of Rochester. The Greece newspaper ...
Charter schools.(News for Educational Workers)(teacher unions and student admissions in charter schools)(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2009; ... On Change.org, the continuation of the Obama presidential campaign website, two public school parents, Sharon Higgins and Caroline Grannan, wrote on March 17, 2009 that "Charters Exclude the Most Challenging Students." In addition to writing that "numerous studies confirm that their ...
Gay lesbian bisexual transgender education.(News for Educational Workers)(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Back in Chicago, before he became President Obama's choice for Education Secretary, Arne Duncan envisioned a school called The Social Justice High School--Pride Campus which would offer a safe haven for GLBT students. The proposal was shot down, but as head of the Department of Education ...
Student activism.(News for Educational Workers)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Over 12,000 student activists marched on Washington DC for the Power Shift '09 climate change conference. For full reports, see "Green Power Struggle" in The Nation (March 23, 2009) and read postings for March 2 and 3, 2009 on Alternet. org. Students at Power Shift '09 also lobbied for ...
Gaza.(News for Educational Workers)(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Teachers Against Occupation (TAO) (www.teachersagainstoccupation.org) is a collective organized to coordinate various efforts by scholars and teachers to critique and resist military occupations worldwide. This site is intended to be a virtual 'meeting point' for different academic groups ...
