Issues

April 2000

Teacher Magazine, Vol. 11, Issue 07
Education Opinion In The Company Of Children
Author Jonathan Kozol lingers with teachers and children who haven't forgotten how to have fun.
Jonathan Kozol, April 1, 2000
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19 min read
Education Opinion Sweet Charity
Do Something challenges children to do good.
April 1, 2000
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2 min read
Education Opinion Guy And Dolls
Cheese and crackers! It's a male elementary teacher.
Mary Valle, April 1, 2000
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5 min read
Education Opinion Horace's Compromise
Few people feel at home in a hospital examination room, surrounded by sterile, sinister-looking equipment.
Steven Drummond, April 1, 2000
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4 min read
Education Opinion Letters
  • Rich Irony
  • The Rating Game
  • Chalk Talk
  • Take Responsibility
  • Mother Librarian
  • Aide Impact
  • Go For Gold
  • Border Bravo
  • Restraint
  • Bright Shining Lie
  • Go, Girls
    • April 1, 2000
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    9 min read
    Education Opinion Alternative Answer
    Reflections on reform, standards, vouchers, and alternative schools.
    Ronald A. Wolk, April 1, 2000
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    3 min read
    Education Opinion Why New Teachers Quit
    Why lasting school reform is so fiendishly difficult.
    Katherine C. Boles & Vivian Troen, April 1, 2000
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    4 min read
    Education Opinion Pikachu Goes To School
    Kids' obsession with Pokémon can be put to good use at school—or not.
    Bruce S. Cooper & Sheree T. Speakman, April 1, 2000
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    4 min read
    Education Opinion Lives On The Boundary
    Anyone familiar with Mike Rose knows better than to look for him center stage.
    Carol Jago, April 1, 2000
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    3 min read
    Education Opinion The Dialectic Of Freedom
    In Dialectic, published in 1988, Greene displays the range of issues that animate her active and creative mind: the role of the arts, the power of social imagination, the question of justice, and the problem of freedom.
    William Ayers, April 1, 2000
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    3 min read
    Education Opinion Experience And Education
    JOHN DEWEY
    (MacMillan, $8)

    The 20th century bore witness to countless education trends, fads, and philosophies. Some of the more dominant strands include traditionalism, as in the Great Books approach; scientific efficiency, most closely linked with the psychology of behaviorism and the goal of social control; and romantic progressivism, represented at its extreme by the "free school" movement.

    Kathleen Kesson, April 1, 2000
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    3 min read