Backpedaling Toward Plessy
When the Supreme Court overturned two desegregation plans, the majority opinion was based on a distortion of both programs, and of the history of desegregation in general.
Editorial: Our Billionaire Philanthropist Problem – and Yours
the Editors of Rethinking Schools
Bill Gates and Eli Broad’s Ed in ’08 campaign isn’t as wonderful as supporters make it sound.
Remembering Asa Hilliard
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‘This Madness Must Cease’
A Chapter on the Vietnam War from Howard Zinn's A Young People's History of the United States [Volume 2]
A chapter on the Vietnam War from Howard Zinn’s A Young People’s History of the United States (Vol. 2). This includes a discussion guide and resource list.
Bring the War Home — to Our Classrooms
The Iraq Moratorium” campaign is one route for students and teachers to discuss and debate the Iraq War and the antiwar movement.”
The Re-militarized Zone
Military recruiters troll New York City high schools for new soldiers, but, of course, they say this isn’t about targeting poor minorities.
America’s Child Soldier Problem
Militaries around the world exploit childhood vulnerablilities
The world’s armies — including the United States’ — exploit childhood vulnerabilities.
History Textbooks: “Theirs” and “Ours”
Teachers must get students to dig deeper than the official” history.”
‘We Do Not Want America to Represent Torture’
It was supposed to be an easy photo-op with President Bush. But two Presidential Scholars recount to Democracy Now! Host Amy Goodman how and why they turned it into a protest.
Beware The Jargon Factory
An excerpt from Jonathan Kozol's Letters to a Young Teacher
A chapter from Kozol’s Letters to a Young Teacher reminds us that nothing good comes from parroting consultant gibberish such as metamoments” and “interactional time.”
‘We Need To Know This!’
Student power and curriculum
Allowing students to guide the curriculum can lead them to powerful moments of discovery.
Race: Some Teachable–and Uncomfortable–Moments
A tense moment opens the door to a deeper discussion on race than this teacher intended.
Revisiting Ruby Payne
The New York Times gives poverty player a pass
The New York Times Magazine was in a good position to pierce Payne’s flash and rhetoric. Instead, they gave her an uncritical
Teaching for Change
Rethinking Schools challenges readers to support an endangered, yet valuable teacher resource project.
Discovering Andrew Clements
A teacher educator finds a cache of social action novels for young people
A graduate student discovers a cache of social justice novels for young people.
Resources 22.1
Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.
Short Stuff 22.1
Resegregation Continues White public school students are becoming less isolated from minority students, new analysis by the Pew Hispanic Center shows. However, it’s nothing to cheer about. “Even as the […]
Wars Then and Now
An interview with Howard Zinn
Zinn spoke with managing editor Fred McKissack about what teachers can do to discuss America’s conflicts
Action Education – We’re the Trouble Makers
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Good Stuff 22.1
Big History: From the Big Bang to the PresentBy Cynthia Stokes Brown(New Press, 2007)304 pages, $25.95 The BombBy Theodore Taylor(Harcourt Paperback, 2007) 200 pages, $6.95 Cynthia Brown has written a book […]
Action Education – Learning From Jena
The sight of hundreds of buses rolling into Jena, La., carrying tens of thousands to rally for the Jena 6 was a reminder that the fight for civil rights is […]
Letters to the Editors 22.1
Haikus Lift Students Prior to teaching my 6th graders about Japanese haiku, we had heard a talk by Dr. Dahlia Wasfi, an Iraqi-American, who conveyed to kids some of the […]
