by Judy Helfand In Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger, Kelly Cogswell whirls the reader into her life as a cofounder of Lesbian Avengers in New York City, 1992. The book’s title comes from one of their first actions where several Avengers learned how to eat fire as …
by Bianca Licata First in a five-part series. With only three weeks left in the school year, and two weeks left of my student teaching, my mentor teacher—“Ms. Jones”—had just finished organizing all of her students’ files, making notes about their proclivity toward one subject or another, and their general …
by Bianca Licata Second in a Five-Part Series. In Part One of this series, we read about a white woman who did not allow her child the help he needed for his disability because it would stop him from attending a charter school. This child was two grade levels behind …
by Bianca Licata Third in a Five-Part Series. As described in Part Two of this series, “Teaching English Language Learners: History and Tensions,” by the 21st century the highly effective programs for English Language Learners (ELLs) had been largely dismantled. Students were left with a “hegemonic, English-only, homogenized curriculum… propagated …
by Bianca Licata Fourth in a Five-Part Series. Part One of this series “A Mother’s ‘Dilemma’ and School Segregation,” which looks at segregation between Hispanic and white students in Sonoma county, illustrated how current attitudes and policies affect white parents, leading them to make choices that increase segregation in the …
by Bianca Licata Fifth in a Five-Part Series. The combination of anti-immigrant attitudes and policies, the dismantling of programs for English Language Learners, and the demands of No Child Left Behind into the context of Sonoma County’s demographics, where 42 percent of students are identified as Latino, and 22 percent …
A Five-Part Series by Bianca Licata Part One: White/Hispanic Segregation in Sonoma County Schools Part Two: No Child Left Behind Damages English Language Learners Programs Part Three: Current Struggles for English Language Learners Part Four: Teaching English Language Learners: History and Tensions Part Five: A Mother’s “Dilemma” and School Segregation …