Monday, May 6, 2024: Reparations and Climate Justice Philosophy professor Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò will discuss his book Reconsidering Reparations which takes on reparations and distributive justice with wide implications for views of justice, racism, the legacy of colonialism, and climate change policy. Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is associate professor of philosophy at Georgetown University. Táíwò’s theoretical work draws liberally from […]
Join Rethinking Schools for a webinar on the spring issue of Rethinking Schools, Teach Palestine. Panelists will offer stories, examples, and concrete strategies for teaching truthfully and critically about Palestine-Israel. At a time when the attack on social justice teaching has dramatically expanded as part of the crackdown on opposition to U.S. aid to Israel, it […]
It’s time to take action. . . . again. For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills and to make public their pledge to teach the truth. The teacher-led rallies received national media attention, providing a valuable counter narrative to the oversized coverage of the well-funded […]
Once again, our friends at Climate Generation are offering their online “Summer Institute for Climate Education,” during the week of July 15–19. One of the presenters will be teacher extraordinaire and Rethinking Schools writer Suzanna Kassouf. Suzanna will lead a workshop based on the “Imagining the Future” role play she describes in her Rethinking Schools article, “‘We Cannot Create What We Cannot […]
