Resources.Rethinking School Reform: Views from the Classroom, the newest book from Rethinking Schools, the nation's leading grassroots voice for teachers, "puts classrooms and teaching at the center of the debate over how to improve public schools." Edited by Stan Karp and Linda Christensen, veterans with a combined 50 years of classroom experience, this new collection provides a primer on a broad range of pressing issues, including school vouchers school vouchers, government grants aimed at improving education for the children of low-income families by providing school tuition that can be used at public or private schools. and funding, multiculturalism, standards and testing, teacher unions, bilingual education bilingual education, the sanctioned use of more than one language in U.S. education. The Bilingual Education Act (1968), combined with a Supreme Court decision (1974) mandating help for students with limited English proficiency, requires instruction in the native , and federal education policy. Rethinking School Reform examines five crucial areas in the effort to improve public schools: Critical Teaching, Taking Bias Seriously, Education Policy and Politics, Standards and Testing, and Roads to Reform. To schedule an interview, speak with an editor, or request review copies, call 414-964-9646 or visit www.rethinkingschools.org. The Corporation, a new film by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott Jennifer Abbott (born c. 1965) is a Canadian director, cinematographer and editor, best known as a documentary maker. Her first feature documentary, A Cow at My Table (1998), explores contemporary Western attitudes to livestock and meat production. , and Joel Bakan Joel Conrad Bakan (born 1959) is a Canadian lawyer and writer. Born in Lansing, Michigan and raised for most of his childhood in East Lansing, Michigan where his parents, Paul and Rita Bakan, were both long-time professors in psychology at Michigan State University. , charts the spectacular rise of an institution aimed at achieving specific economic goals as it also recounts victories against this apparently invincible force. Visit www.thecorporation.com. "Eyes on the Fries: Young Workers in the Service Economy," a new film by Peek Media and the UC Berkeley Labor Center, aims to dispel the myth of the carefree and affluent youth projected by the media and examines the rise of the low wage service sector and the economic reality for millions of young people. The film shows young people taking the lead in demanding better jobs, more opportunities, and public policy that benefits young workers. The length is 20 minutes, the price is $25 for individuals ($60 for institutions), and the video comes with a curriculum and fact sheets designed for high school and college age students. To purchase the video and curriculum, visit www.youngworkersunited.org or e-mail workingyouth@hotmail.com. The spring issue of A Contracorriente: A Journal of Social History and Literature in Latin America is now out. Visit www.ncsu.edu/project/acontracorriente. Ocean Press is an independent publisher with a unique list of books, with an emphasis on Latin America and war, offering a radical global vision. Visit www.oceanbooks.com.au or email info@oceanbooks.com.au. "Media Construction of War: A Critical Reading of History" is a curriculum kit providing teachers with the materials needed to engage students in a dynamic, interactive, and constructivist con·struc·tiv·ism n. A movement in modern art originating in Moscow in 1920 and characterized by the use of industrial materials such as glass, sheet metal, and plastic to create nonrepresentational, often geometric objects. process of reading and interpreting history. Through use of slide, print, and video materials, students develop critical thinking skills while learning core historical information about the Vietnam War Vietnam War, conflict in Southeast Asia, primarily fought in South Vietnam between government forces aided by the United States and guerrilla forces aided by North Vietnam. , the Gulf War, and the War in Afghanistan. With slide and video scripts, teachers lead students through a close reading of images and text examining Newsweek magazine coverage of each of the three wars. Orders can be made online at http://www.gpn.unl.edu/cml/ or by calling 800-228-4630. Is there a news item, call for papers, upcoming conference, resource, teaching tool or other information related to progressive education that you would like to share with other Radical Teacher readers? Conference announcements and calls for papers should be at least six months ahead of date. Items, which will be used as found appropriate by Radical Teacher, cannot be returned. Send hard copy to Leonard Vogt, Department of English Noun 1. department of English - the academic department responsible for teaching English and American literature English department academic department - a division of a school that is responsible for a given subject , LaGuardia Community College LaGuardia Community College is a City University of New York (CUNY) community college located in Long Island City in Queens, New York. It is named for former New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. 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