Rethinking Schools at 40: Still Here. Still Hopeful.
Rethinking Schools is a grassroots publisher that amplifies social justice education inside and outside of the classroom. Our magazine, books, and other resources promote equity and racial justice in the classroom.
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The Greatest Little League Season of All Time: How One Team Confronted Racism — and Became Champions It
By Jesse Hagopian
Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian recalls a cinematic Little League season where players learned about baseball — and solidarity.
We Got a Team
By Tom McKenna
A coach considers the many lessons students at his alternative high school gained from starting a basketball team.
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Science Teaching for Social Justice
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.
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.