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Spring 2026
Learning Under Occupation: Community Resilience in Twin Cities Schools
By Jey Ehrenhalt
A Minneapolis resident describes what it’s like to live under ICE’s Operation Metro Surge and the crucial role teachers and schools have played in building resistance.
Twin Cities Educators Resisting for the Common Good
By Sarah Jaffe
Jaffe describes the rise of social justice teacher unionism in the Twin Cities and how unions have confronted ICE.
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Science Teaching for Social Justice shares stories of educators and students who explore how social and political systems shape science. From preschool to graduate studies and across disciplines, this book contains lessons that empower students to use science as a tool for equity and justice. Illuminating methods to center social justice in science education, these stories help students go beyond the standards and dig into ways science is used both as a tool of oppression and as a means of liberation.
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Rethinking Schools began in 1986, when a group of Milwaukee education activists — teachers, teacher educators, and community members — met to talk about how they could bring more critical voices into the conversation about public schools and libraries. These founding Rethinking Schools editors saw a school curriculum that was conservative, dumbed-down, and dominated by corporate-produced textbooks. Inappropriate standardized testing was rampant. Racial bias infected every level of schooling.