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May/June 2005 Humanist Cover

Cover Story

Teaching For the Future

Teaching Humanities in New Ways-and Teaching New Humanities
by Mark Wagner
Though many of the old ways of teaching don't work with today's students, the right innovative approaches can re-engage them. (Read Article in HTML)

To Teach or Not To Teach?
by Robert Rubinstein
An innovative teacher watches his children take up teaching careers in the current non-innovative climate of budget cutting and standardized testing . . . and wonders.

High-Stakes Testing, Homework, and Gaming the System
by Etta Kralovec and John Buell
The plan to have "no child left behind" by means of "school accountability" is, in fact, leaving more students behind than before.

Can Peace Be Taught-and Learned?
by Colman McCarthy
Surprisingly, in a militarized nation increasingly devoted to back-to-basics education, an Alternatives to Violence course is taking root in high schools and colleges.

Articles

Iraq Withdrawal and MoveOn.org
by Norman Solomon  
Does the United States have a paternalistic responsibility to keep troops in Iraq? A few progressive organizations like MoveOn seem to think so.
 
Truth, Death, and Journalism: We Kill Journalists, Don't We?
by Michael I. Niman  
U.S. forces in Iraq deny having targeted unembedded journalists-but there are a number of nagging, uncomfortable facts.
 
Healthcare for Sale
by James P. Whalen, M.D.  
The market mentality of the healthcare industry is leaving many Americans behind.
 

Second in a Series: The Stain of War on Culture

Graffiti of a Nicaraguan Survivor
by Michelle Bargo  
The troubled lives of the Nicaraguan people, attested even in the graffiti on walls, are part of the bleak aftermath of the old Contra War. (Read Article in HTML)

 

Features

Letters to the Editor

The Issue At Hand
by Fred Edwords

UP FRONT:
Will the Real Martin Luther King Please Stand Up?
by Jeff Nall

Minimum Security
by Stephanie McMillan

Iraq's Reconstruction: A Community Responsibility
by Jason Ben-Meir


First Person
Pursuing Passion after Three Generations
by Wendy Orent

Church & State:
On the Workforce Reinvestment and Adult Education Act
by Representative Jerrold L. Nadler

The Culture War
Ashcroft, Eastwood, and Assisted Dying
by Faye Girsh


Humanism 101
Faith and Public Controversy
by Tibor Machan (Read Article in HTML)


Technology and Society
RFID Report
by Lisa Smith (Read Article in HTML)

Reviews

Worth Noting
by Karen Ann Gajewski

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