By Deborah Menkart School officials in Washington, D.C., have begun an experiment on low-income children, most of whom are African American and Latino. The D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee, championed by both candidates during the presidential debates, has invited Harvard University economist Roland Fryer — described in the Washington Post as “a 30-year-old …
Enid Lee is Multicultural Educator of the Year
Enid Lee, co-editor of Beyond Heroes and Holidays, received the Pritchy Smith Multicultural Educator Award at the 2008 National Association of Multicultural Education (NAME) Annual Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. Here is an excerpt from her remarks: I accept this award on behalf of the children of Katrina whom we have lost and also for the …
Children as Guinea Pigs
By Deborah Menkart School officials in Washington, D.C., have begun an experiment on low-income children, most of whom are African American and Latino. The D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee, championed by both candidates during the presidential debates, has invited Harvard University economist Roland Fryer — described in the Washington Post as “a 30-year-old …
Zinn Education Project
Teaching for Change and Rethinking Schools collaborate to bring a people’s history to the classroom. The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the use of A People’s History of the United States and other people’s history materials in middle and high school classrooms across the country. The Zinn Education Project is a collaboration between Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change. The …
Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching
The Network of Educators on the Americas (now Teaching for Change), the Poverty and Race Research Action Council (PRRAC), and the Howard University History Department co-sponsored Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching, a free one-day institute that took place on October 30, 1999, at Howard University in Washington, D.C., funded in part by grants …
Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching
The Network of Educators on the Americas (NECA), the Poverty and Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) and the Howard University History Department co-sponsored Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching, a free one-day institute that took place on October 30, 1999, at Howard University in Washington, D.C., funded in part by grants from …
Donald Graves Visits the Books Project
In 1989, Teaching for Change (originally called NECCA) invited Dr. Donald Graves, internationally recognized scholar on the teaching for writing, to serve as an adviser to our our newly established Books Project. Graves replied enthusiastically that not only would he be willing to advise the project, but that he would also like to visit and …