COVER STORIES • FIGHTING FOR OUR SCHOOLS
A Cauldron of Opposition in Duncan’s Hometown •
Rank-and-File Teachers Score Huge Victory
An Interview with Karen Lewis and Jackson Potter
By Bob Peterson and Jody Sokolower
The new leadership of the Chicago Teachers Union explains how they won and where they're going.
Proving Grounds • School “Rheeform” in Washington, D.C.
By Leigh Dingerson
Michelle Rhee is the exemplar of Duncan's school “reform.” What's really happening to children and teachers in D.C.?
FEATURES
Who Can Stay Here? Documentation and Citizenship in Children’s Literature
By Grace Cornell
Picture books about immigration and citizenship rarely portray the issues that children from immigrant families face every day. Here is a framework to help teachers choose books and open discussion.
The Other Internment • Teaching the Hidden Story of Japanese Latin Americans during WWII
By Moé Yonamine
A role play engages students in exploration of a little-known piece of history—the deportation of people of Japanese origin from Latin American countries to U.S. internment camps and back to Japan as POWs.
EDITORIAL • Teacher Layoffs and War
By the editors of Rethinking Schools