Jody Sokolower
Drawing on his experience growing up in a refugee camp in the West Bank and his work with youth, Abbas explores connections that bring Palestine to life for students in the United States.
Our thoughts on essential resources for teaching about Palestine.
Nadine Foty
Weaving her own experiences with reviews of Palestinian picture books, Foty shares books as resistance to the systematic exclusion of Palestine in the curriculum.
The Editors of Rethinking Schools
“They are targeting our children. They know our children are the future of Palestine,” a mother and community activist told Rethinking Schools editor Jody Sokolower. In this Palestinian woman’s East […]
Members of the Oakland Education Association for Palestine Group
Educators in Oakland share the dramatic story of what happened when they organized a teach-in for Palestine.
Bill Bigelow
Bigelow describes a new lesson on the roots of the violence in Palestine — and argues that history shows that anti-Zionism is not automatically antisemitism.
Nina Shoman-Dajani
A Palestinian American mother describes the alienation that she felt in school, and how she draws on her experiences to imagine the schooling she wants for her children.
Katharine Davies Samway
It’s difficult to find accurate books on Palestine for young readers. A former teacher educator describes resources for K-8 students, including picture books, nonfiction, fiction, and poetry.
Samia Shoman
A social studies teacher uses conflicting narratives to engage students in studying the history of Palestine/Israel, focusing on the events of 1948.
Jesse Hagopian
Hagopian connects the attacks in the United States on teaching about race and gender to Israel’s attacks on children, schools, and historical memory in Palestine.
Gabriel Matthew Schivone
A generation ago, students led the movement in the United States to divest from apartheid South Africa. Today, student leaders are shaking Arizona as they defend Tucson’s Mexican American Studies […]
Ken Gadbow
U.S. students talk directly with Palestinian youth and learn what it is like to live in a war zone.
Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.
Linda Dittmar
A review of Finding Melody Sullivan by Alice Rothchild.
The following websites provide useful background information and further links. Because of space we only listed a limited number. For more links visit www.rethinkingschools.org. Note: that listing of the sites does […]
Nina Shoman-Dajani
Book Review: Determined to Stay, by Jody Sokolower. Reviewed by Nina Shoman-Dajani
the editors of Rethinking Schools
Israel’s war on Gaza and the simultaneous crackdown on dissent has given another boost to the forces of repression.
Jody Sokolower
At first it seemed that ethnic studies advocates had won a major victory in California, but then a backlash targeted Arab American studies.
Jody Sokolower
An on-the-ground account of the impact of the Israeli occupation on Palestinian children from the perspective of East Jerusalem.
Personal Cost of War I just finished my second reading of Chris Hawking’s, “Cracking the Box: The Personal Cost of War”(winter 2015-16). Both times his story literally brought tears to my […]
Bill Bigelow
As I drove from Jericho to Jerusalem in the West Bank I saw my first Palestinian school. It was an unremarkable building – two stories, faded yellow paint, surrounded by […]
Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.
Reviewed by Bill Bigelow, Deborah Menkart, and Dan Coffey
Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.
Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.
Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.
