Issues

From Muffins to Movements:

Building Teacher Communities of Resistance

Kushya Sugarman and Laura Taylor

Sugarman and Taylor detail the challenges and successes of teachers using Teaching for Black Lives study groups to refuse isolation and defy the crackdown on anti-racist education.

Building the School-to-Abolition Pipeline

Nataliya Braginsky

A high school teacher explains how restorative justice helps students envision a different model of justice and community at school.

Original Sins — and What to Do About Them

An Interview with Eve L. Ewing

Cierra Kaler-Jones

Cierra Kaler-Jones interviews author Eve L. Ewing about her new book Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism.

“I Really Felt Like I Was Using My Writing for Good”

Student Writing on Redlining, Urban Renewal, and Gentrification — The Definition Essay

Linda Christensen

Christensen details strategies to encourage students to write essays that matter while they investigate decades of housing discrimination in their neighborhood.

Teaching “Mexican Repatriation”:

Uncovering Histories of Deportation and Belonging

Erin Green

A 5th-grade teacher engages students in a unit on the forced deportation of 2 million Mexicans and Mexican Americans from the United States during the Great Depression.

I’m a Muslim High School Student. I Fear Texas’ New Bible-Infused Curriculum.

Marium Zahra

A high school student criticizes Texas’ new reading and language arts elementary school curriculum that encourages teachers to bring Christianity into classrooms.

Trump’s Education by Indoctrination Must Be Fought with Social Justice Unionism

Jesse Hagopian

Hagopian argues social justice unionism is the key to fighting the creeping fascism behind Trump’s effort to control what is taught in schools.

Parable of the Sower and Climate Futures

Mimi Eisen

Eisen explores themes for classroom discussion as well as disturbing similarities between our present moment and the dystopian future portrayed in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower.

Backlash Politics and the Dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education

the editors of Rethinking Schools

In March, Donald Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education (USED).  Thousands of employees were fired without notice and billions of dollars in grants and research […]

Our picks for books, videos, websites, and other social justice resources 39.4

Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.