Introduction -- Organizations and websites. Rita Tenorio -- Language matters / Ann Pelo -- What color is beautiful? / Alejandro Segura-Mora -- Why an anti bias curriculum? / Louise Derman-Sparks -- Developmental themes, tasks, and goals in anti bias work / Margie Carter, Deb Curtis -- Raising issues of race with young children / Rita Tenorio -- Using persona dolls to help children develop anti bias attitudes / Trisha Whitney -- Miles of aisles of sexism : helping students investigate toy stores / Sudie Hofmann -- Where are the game girls? / Ann Pelo -- Rethinking 'The Three Little Pigs' / Ellen Wolpert -- What if all the kids were white? : anti bias themes for teaching young children / Louise Derman-Sparks, Patricia Ramsey -- Unwrapping the holidays : reflections on a difficult first year / Dale Weiss -- Scripted prescription : a cure for childhood / Peter Campbell -- What about play? / Sharna Olfman -- Confession : my students play in the classroom -- and it's good for them / Seth Shteir -- Playing with gender / Ann Pelo -- Cybertots : technology and the preschool child / Jane Healy -- Why we banned Legos : exploring power, ownership, and equity in the classroom / Ann Pelo and Kendra PeloJoaquin -- 'Lego fascists' (that's us) Vs. Fox News / Editors of Rethinking School Magazine -- 'I just want to read Frog and Toad' / Melanie Quinn -- Tuning in to violence : students use math to analyze what TV is teaching them / Margot Pepper -- Talking with children about war and peace / Ann Pelo -- Testing tots : why we need a better means of evaluating our nation's children / Richard Rothstein -- Testing Lang / Amy Gutowski -- Think less benchmarks : a flawed test does more harm than good / Amy Gutowski -- From critique to possibility : New Zealand's radical approach to assessment / Margie Carter -- Pedagogy for ecology / Ann Pelo -- Bringing the Earth home : professional development on ecology / Ann Pelo -- Don't know much about natural history : education as a barrier to nature / Richard Louv -- Food is not for play / Jean Hannon -- Lessons from a garden spider : how Charlotte transformed my classroom / Kate Lyman -- Holding Nyla : lessons from an inclusion classroom / Katie Kissinger -- Fairness first : learning from Martin Luther King Jr. and Ruby Bridges / Stephanie Walters -- Staying past Wednesday : helping kids deal with death and loss / Kate Lyman -- Welcoming Kalenna : making our students feel at home / Laura Linda Negri-Pool -- Holiday lessons learned in an early childhood classroom / Julie Bisson -- Strawberry fields forever? : an early childhood teacher draws on her past to teach children of migrant farmworkers / Cirila Ramírez -- Talking the talk : integrating indigenous languages into a Head Start classroom / Cathie DeWeese-Parkinson -- Heather's moms got married / Mary Cowhey -- Bringing the lives of lesbian and gay people into our programs / Ann Pelo -- Activism brings us power : an interview with Hilda Magaña / Jacqueline Lalley -- Who cares for our children? : the childcare crisis in the other America / Valerie Polakow -- It's all our business : what fighting for family friendly policies could mean for early childhood educators / Ellen Bravo -- Improving conditions and status for early childhood and educators / Charles Bruner -- Caught in a quagmire : the effort to improve wages and working conditions for childcare teachers / Patty Hnatiuk -- 10 quick ways to analyze children's books for racism and sexism / Council on Interracial Books for Children -- Music for social justice / Rita Tenorio -- Books and multimedia resources -- Organizations and websites.
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