two good education-related blogs

in june, i went to a radical teacher education conference at the center for anti-oppressive education at the university of illinois-chicago. two of the most exciting things i encountered there were

a)mica pollock's new book and project, _everyday anti-racism_, which offers what i think is an interesting model for use in professional development contexts and teacher-led critical inquiry groups: it offers short question-generating texts to read, and a protocol for discussion that focuses on both long term and short term approaches to political and educational classroom challenges. pollock has also started a blog, connected to this project, to encourage converssation about how to teach and talk about and teach against racism in k-12 contexts. check it out at www.schoolracetalk.org

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b)a range of projects that therese quinn, an old friend of an old friend of mine who teaches arts ed stuff at the school of the art institute of chicago, has been organizing. these include TAME (teachers against militarized education), and a bunch of anti-homophobia in k-12 and teacher education projects. she also has a nice blog at http://therese-othereye.blogspot.com/