Editorial: Queering Schools
How can we create classrooms and schools where discrimination and assumptions about gender and/or sexuality don’t keep us from nurturing every child, parent, and staff member?
“Aren’t There Any Poor Gay People Besides Me?”
Teaching LGBTQ issues in the rural South
A teacher redesigns her curriculum to support a gay student. As the classroom community strengthens, they confront the impact of poverty and geographic isolation.
500 Square Feet of Respect
Queering a study of the criminal justice system
Facing conflict fueled by racism and homophobia at his school, a teacher develops curriculum for the school-to-prison pipeline aimed at building bridges and academic skills.
Organizing Resistance to Teach for America
Former TFA corps members join with parents, students, and veteran teachers to organize a people’s assembly and nationalize efforts against TFA.
An Open Letter to New Teach For America Recruits
A Chicago teacher urges TFA recruits to think twice before they sign up.
Teach For America: A Voice of Dissent
A former TFA corps member describes her experiences inside TFA, beginning with the cultlike atmosphere of the training.
Civil Disobedience
When a substitute is insensitive to a fragile student, her classmates look to Thoreau for inspiration about how to respond.
Desobediencia civil
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Environmental Crime on Trial
Students probe the BP oil spill
The 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill coincided with my first year of teaching modern world history at a high school in Portland, Oregon.
Mything Mandela
Kadir Nelson’s acclaimed picture book Mandela portrays Nelson Mandela as an isolated hero, ignoring the movement of which he was an integral part.
Creando el mito de Mandela
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The Gathering Resistance to Standardized Tests
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan touched off a torrent of criticism last November when he told a group of state school superintendents that opposition to the Common Core State […]
Aumentando la resistencia en contra de los exámenes estandarizados
El Secretario de Educación de Estados Unidos Arne Duncan desencadenó una torrente de críticas el noviembre pasado cuando le dijo a un grupo de superintendentes escolares que la oposición a […]
Letters to the Editor 28.3
Is It the Text or the Teaching? Michelle Kenney (“Of Mice and Marginalization,” fall 2013) makes compelling points about the pressures of choosing texts for her classroom. When her […]
Ed Alert: Military Teaches Our Kids
There’s a saying in the Army recruiting community: “First to contact, first to contract.” In the United States, you have to be at least 17 years old to enlist in […]
Ed Alert: The GED Goes Private
Selling Off Second Chances Across Oakland, California, residents have been bombarded with billboards featuring celebrities urging them to get their high school equivalency credential by passing the GED. The billboards […]
Victory for Portland Teachers
After coming to the brink of what would have been the first strike in their union’s history, Portland, Oregon, teachers won a historic contract that reduces workload significantly. The district […]
Short Stuff 28.3
Testing Boycott in Chicago Teachers at two Chicago schools—Maria Saucedo Elementary Scholastic Academy and Thomas Drummond Elementary (Drummond Montessori)—voted to refuse to distribute the Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) to […]
When a Picture Book Is Subversive
As a K-8 teacher librarian, I love to read picture books that generate thoughtful questions and debate among the diverse students I work with. Toni Morrison’s children’s book The Big […]
Our picks for books, videos, websites, and other social justice resources 28.3
Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.
