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... teacher whose expansive religious vision included an abiding commitment to interreligious bridge-building. Therefore, in this article I pay specific attention to the ways in which Reb Zalman drew on, revised, or departed from established Hasidic ideals and norms as he encountered people from different...

... Educators (CORE), an insurgent slate of activist teachers, won a hard-fought election to take leadership of the powerful Chicago Teachers Union. The teachers union, like others across the country, had come under criticism for its bureaucratic, paternalistic relationship with parents and even its own members...

... them?” terestingly many parents rushed to her defense. She was, they said, an excellent and caring educator. And, besides, it was one way to help teachers who, in this city, were forced to purchase basic school supplies out of their own salaries. It is not hard to see their point...

... A. Giroux, Youth in a Suspect Society (New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2010); Annette Fuentes, Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse becomes a Jailhouse (New York: Verso, 2013) 8 Jeff Bryant, “We Won’t Improve Education by Making Teachers Hate Their Jobs,” C ommonDreams (April 22, 3016). Online...

... educational process by offering support meetings for teachers to vent and reflect on their experiences with the students in the classroom. Many of them were in their first year, and classroom management was especially challenging. I built close relationships with several teachers and offered assistance...

... these days. The corporation provides teachers with a free curriculum that in­ structs students on “good and bad hair days” and asks them to list the three hair products they would absolutely need if stranded...

... and culture in Ghana that those encounters mattered deeply to her sense of being as a Black woman teacher. We heard in her voice (re)claimations of connection, kinship, and healed identities. Learning to (re)member in Ghana allowed her to resist the oppressive narratives of Black women’s lives that have been...

... into finance or busi­ health care, and financial regulation, the education ness, not education. Alternative sources of teachers, like Teach for issue has been a mere trill note. Yet, the effort to im­ America, can only supply a limited share of new teacher demand. prove...

... came up to me and said: “I am a teacher. A great teacher. I love teaching. And I am quitting. All the good teachers in 56 TIKKUN WWW.TIKKUN.ORG JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2009 A P P...

...Rabbi Michael Lerner Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2012 A s A mericans increasingly buy into political notions that prioritize budget cuts over the provision of necessary human services, educational institutions across the country find themselves facing severe economic crises. Teachers face...

... that teaching about love necessitates its practice. But an academic curriculum that delves deeply into the nature of love in several adventurous teachers’ classrooms can be a springboard into an explicit school- wide practice of the compassion, empathy and generosity that Tikkun’s Spiritual Covenant...

...BRIAN JONES Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2016 F or those on the front lines of the fight to defend and improve public education, the 2016 presidential election is already a minefield. On July 11, 2015, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten announced...

.... Come forward in tim e, and the boy, now a grown m an, has left behind his village in Turkey and is visiting the U nited States as a Fulbright exchange teacher...

..., to watch on a huge screen as Arafat and Rabin shook hands while Clinton spread his arms between them like an angel, and now to hear this: Becky’s father has passed away. The teachers spoke to us from the front...

... directions in thinking about what it means to educate the young in these turbulent times. The No Child Left Behind Debacle Picking up on the increasing sense of frustration among parents and teachers with No Child Left Behind, candidates are now comfortable...

... fellow citizens. You have already advanced plans for achieving a fairer tax policy and restoring appropriate regulatory guidelines in regards to corporations and financial institutions. As teacher-in-chief, what spiritual and communal values will you promote to liberate us from our...

... wrong. You are real. But you think you’re ly Mongolian teacher as putting it this way: We fear ifwe that surrender to the self’s fragility, we will break, not realizing the inherent free­ In the group psyche...

.... Silences and misconceptions of Enlightenment thinking are still being carried forward by computer scientists, hubris driven researchers genetically re-engineering the biological world, academics, teachers, and curriculum theorists. In confronting this, we will be well served to remember that one...

..., sour blush of spirit, crimes in the spongy flesh of our teachers: the villager's thumb smashed blue open to our mistakes, their skin absorbs from hammering evil thoughts into every fault, a body's true instruction...