The 99%: How the Occupy Wall Street Movement is Changing America
Gandhi's Wings: Occupy Wall Street and the Redistribution of Anxiety
What if We Occupied Language? Occupy The Department of Education
Occupy The Dept of Ed: Just What Education Activists Were Looking For
Fault Lines Documentary: History of Occupy Wall Street
The Teacher’s Voice was founded as an experimental nonprofit hardcopy magazine on December 23, 2004 and has been available gratis online since 2007. We publish creative nonfiction, poetry, short stories, and essays that reflect the many different teacher experiences within the United States. This site is maintained and issues are produced by educators, graduate students, and other volunteers. We do not receive state, federal, or corporate funding.
We accept a wide range of work, but given pressing global events feel a sense of urgency when it comes to understanding public education, especially in low-income and working class communities. It is undeniable that negligently overcrowded schools with micromanaged teachers do not allow for unhurried healthy conversations that foster a natural love for learning and wholesome human development; teacher creativity and expertise are being replaced by state mandated curriculums and prepping for standardized tests; teachers are under extreme pressure to deny their reality and fear speaking out; the abuse of teachers by too many administrators is very real; teacher unions are being scapegoated and continue to lose ground; an alarming number of highly regarded novice and veteran teachers quit every year. After seven years of receiving feedback from actively engaged educators, we are safe in saying that government policies that neglect and dismantle neighborhood public schools to serve misguided political, private, and corporate interests are not the answer. We believe parents, students, and teachers have the right answers, especially when given all the facts and actual decision making power.
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Readers should note that because we produce theme issues that require enough relevant pieces to be compiled and depend on private donations, our publishing schedule and format may vary from year to year.
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Limited Printing
Volume III Number II
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SECOND PLACE: What Happens Here by Kenneth Chamlee
THIRD PLACE: Avatar by E.R. Carlin
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2006 Chapbook Contest
Smackdown!
by Mary Beth O'Connor
Final Judge: Sapphire Books
2nd Printing Release: April 2010
SECOND PLACE: Mentoring Heidi by Patricia Lawson
THIRD PLACE: Untitled Manuscript by Karen Waggoner
HONORABLE MENTION: Friday Afternoon by Ken Pobo, Reverence by Richard Holinger,
Tales Out of School and In by Robert Castle
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1st New/Emerging Poets' Contest
Vol. 2 #3
FIRST PLACE WINNER
Odysessus in Hades: A Classroom Voyage
by John W. Pardee
SECOND PLACE WINNER
Being Schooled
by Shahe Mankerian
THIRD PLACE WINNER
Bilingual Children, Niños Bilingües
by Angélia Salerno
HONORABLE MENTION
I Won't Teach You Less by Danielle Kelly
Grendel's Mommy by Lawrence James Nielsen
ISSN #1556-6161
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