10 Quick Ways to Analyze Children’s Books for Ableism

Article. By Chloë Myers and Hank Bersani Jr. Rethinking Schools, Volume 23 – Issue 2, Winter 2008/09.
A guide for analyzing children’s books for prejudice by able-bodied and able-minded people toward people with disabilities

Disability, Education

Beyond the Medal: Representations of Disability in Caldecott Winners

Article. By Chloë Myers-Hughes and Hank Bersani Jr. Rethinking Schools. Volume 24 No. 2 – Winter 2009-10.
The authors of “10 Quick Ways to Analyze Children’s Books for Ableism” look at what Caldecott winners tell young children about disability.

Disability

The Bonus Army

Article. By Mickey Z.
History of the 1932 Bonus Expeditionary Force (BEF) or Bonus Army.

Civic Voices: Connecting teachers and youth to local activists through oral histories

Article. By Jozi Zwerdling.

Empire or Humanity?: What the classroom didn’t teach me about the American empire

Article for Teachers and High School Students – PDF. By Howard Zinn. 4 pages.
An essay which raises questions about the justifications for empire building and imperialism.

Imperialism, US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements

Freedom’s Unfinished Revolution: Teaching a People’s History of Reconstruction

Background Reading for Teachers PDF. By Bill Bigelow. 4 pages.
A review of Freedom’s Unfinished Revolution, a collection of primary documents for high school on the Civil War and Reconstruction.

African American, Laws & Citizen Rights, Racism & Racial Identity, Slavery

Globalization: A View from Below

Reading – PDF. By Jean-Bertrand Aristide. 5 pages.
An essay on the impact of globalization, with the story of Haiti as an example.

US Foreign Policy, World History/Global Studies

Howard Zinn: Interview by Bill Moyers

Article. Interview of Howard Zinn by Bill Moyers. 2009. 11 pages. From book published by The New Press.
Howard Zinn on The People Speak and a range of topics in U.S. history and contemporary issues.

On the Road to Cultural Bias: A Critique of The Oregon Trail

Article for Educators in PDF. By Bill Bigelow. 13 pages.
Critque of the popular Oregon Trail computer game.

Education, Native American, Racism & Racial Identity

The Politics of Children’s Literature: What’s Wrong with the Rosa Parks Myth

Aritcle. By Herbert Kohl. 6 pages.
A critical analysis that challenges the myths in children’s books about Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

African American, Civil Rights Movements, Education, Women's History

Scholastic Inc. – Pushing Coal: A 4th-grade curriculum lies through omission

Article. By Bill Bigelow. Rethinking Schools, Volume 25 – Issue 4, Summer 2011.

Education, Environment & Food, Labor, Organizing

The Truth About Helen Keller

Article for Teachers and High School Students – PDF. By Ruth Shagoury. 6 pages.
A review of children’s picture books about the life of Helen Keller reveals the omission of any description of her active role in key social movements of the 20th century.

Disability, Education, Women's History

Whitewashing Our Past: A Proposal for a National Campaign to Rethink Textbooks

Article. By Bob Peterson. 4 pages.
A critique of social studies textbooks and the rationale for a campaign to rethink them.

Education, Racism & Racial Identity