Educators Beware:

The Anti-Defamation League Is Not the Social Justice Partner It Claims to Be

Summer 2024

Existing Outside of the Binary in the Classroom

By Julianna Iacovelli

A nonbinary educator reflects on the difficulty and the power of being out in school.


Nurturing a Rainbow of Resistance to Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws

By Linda Christensen

Christensen describes teaching high school students about new anti-LGBTQ+ laws — and the growing resistance to them.

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Rethinking Schools is the country’s leading grassroots magazine for social and racial justice in education.

About Rethinking Schools

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.