Randi Storch
Teaching Blog

Bringing Humanity to Progressive Era Tragedies: Teaching Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Uprising

Margaret Peterson Haddix’s historical novel Uprising provides a valuable resource for those of us interested in engaging our students in their real-life drama

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A Bright Light in Dark Times: CTU struggle explored in Labor

State University of New York employees are reeling from the union contract negotiated between the faculty union (the United University Professions) and the

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Communities Are Worth Fighting For

Last month in Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray vetoed the Large Retailer Accountability Act, which would have required corporate retailers with sales

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Teaching about Collective Bargaining–the case of Flint Michigan

This summer I had the privilege of co-coordinating an NEH Landmark grant at one of the Great Camps in the Adirondacks. Over a

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Sharpen Your Pencils and Your Pitchforks

The battle against teachers and their unions seemed to crescendo last year during Chicago’s teacher strike.  The mainstream media had a field day

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President Obama’s Budget Proposal Addresses Wealth Inequality in America: Just Kidding

President Obama presented his budget proposal in the face of sequestration, the effects of which are slowly making their way into federal programs

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Drones for Democracy?

All week I’ve been glued to coverage regarding our drone policy and the leak of documents rationalizing U.S. government policies surrounding their use.

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Gompers Redux? or, Does Labor Need the State to Meddle?

I am finding it hard these days to get in the holiday spirit. In the wake of Michigan’s Republican and corporate assault on

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We Are the World

In the heat of a presidential election, I can’t help but be one of those people. You know, the ones who forward on

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