School Days
How music recordings can bring history to life.
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Exploring ‘Same’ and ‘Different’ in a Preschool World
Helping young students overcome bias and embrace diversity.
Washin’ Away
A trial activity asks who’s guilty for Katrina’s horrors.
From the Archives
A selection of articles from Rethinking School’s past 20 years.
Thoughts on the 20th Anniversary of Rethinking Schools
The noted educator says Rethinking Schools has become far more than a newspaper: It is a movement.
Band-Aids or Bulldozers
What’s next for NCLB?
From Tourist Hawaii to the 20th Anniversary
A current RS editor explores the important role Rethinking Schools has played in my life and the powerful model Rethinking Schools provides for teachers.”
School Board Journeys
A Milwaukee school board member and former RS staffer reminds us that school board politics are personal.”
A Pedagogy of Resistance
An interview with historian Howard Zinn.
Rethinking Teacher Unions
RS has always pushed unions to transform schools, and themselves.
Dispatch from the Front Lines of the Voucher Wars
Lessons learned from 15 years of covering Milwaukee’s trendsetting school-voucher program.
My Small School Journey
An Oakland teacher experiences the negative effects of small school reform in the midst of a budget crisis.
Bargaining for Better Schools
One union works for meaningful small school reform.
We’re Not Blind. Just Follow the Dollar Sign
Chicago’s renaissance” could mean dark age for city’s public schools.”
Youth Take the Lead on High School Reform Issues
Sistas and Brothas United.
No Child Left Untested
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The Shame of the Nation
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Free-Market Education
Graphic evidence that school vouchers do not guarantee school quality in Milwaukee.
Christopher Columbus and the Iraq War
How the myth built up around Columbus has helped condition kids to accept imperial adventures like the Iraq war.
Reconstructing Race
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Teaching About Global Warming in Truck Country
Helping kids who’ve grown up in the truck culture” examine climate change.
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Rethinking Agatha Christie
The strange and offensive history of Ten Little Indians” (Hint: They weren’t always called “Indians.”)
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Playing with Gender
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Students Galvanize for Immigrant Rights
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Getting to the Heart of Quality Teaching
Catchy slogans, top-down mandates and shallow reforms won’t improve teacher quality. Real progress will only happen if teachers, parents, teacher unions and school and community leaders all play a role.