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A Revitalized Teacher Union Movement
The president of the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association describes paths and pitfalls in moving beyond bread and butter issues to social justice unionism.
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Portraits from a Public School in Harlem
What happens when a vibrant community school is undermined by district policies? A story in text and photographs.
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Testing Assumptions
High school students creatively and successfully organize against high-stakes testing in Rhode Island.
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Un examen de prejuicios
Un grupo de estudiantes de secundaria se organizan para protestar los exámenes de alto impacto de Rhode Island.
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Happening Yesterday, Happened Tomorrow
Teaching the ongoing murders of black men
A poet/teacher/activist shows students how to use poetry to understand and share their pain and outrage.
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Sucediendo ayer, sucedió mañana
Una poeta, maestra y activista le muestra a sus estudiantes cómo utilizar la poesía para entender y compartir el dolor y la rabia que sienten.
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When Emma Goldman Entered the Room
Dealing with the unexpected in a role play
When misogynist stereotypes emerge during a role play, a high school history teacher must decide how best to raise the issue.
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Strike!
Teaching labor history in a right-to-work state
A teacher educator introduces her students to labor history and makes a case for its centrality to U.S. history.
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Empowering Change Through Art
The campaign for artful resistance
A teacher educator introduces her students to labor history and makes a case for its centrality to U.S. history.
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Children With Absent Parents
Recently, while browsing Facebook and procrastinating, I came across a disdainful post shared by a friend. It was a bashing of a picture book about a kid’s father going to […]
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No Principles, No Progress
In 1969, Howard Fuller founded Malcolm X Liberation University in North Carolina, based on the principles of Black Power and Pan-Africanism. Forty years later, he coined the term “dance of […]
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Educators and the Climate Crisis
Jenna Pope On Sept. 21, 2014, 400,000 people poured into the streets of New York City for the People’s Climate March. As Democracy Now! reported: “With a turnout far exceeding […]
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Letters to the Editor 29.2
Restorative Justice: From the Bottom Up Finally, someone is starting the conversation about the perceived “wins” when schools districts across the country mandate restorative justice (“Restorative Justice: What It Is […]
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Short Stuff 29.2
Protests Build in Mexico Over Disappearance of Normalistas Anger at the disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa teachers’ college in the Mexican state of Guerrero has ignited months of mass […]
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Our picks for books, videos, websites, and other social justice education resources 29.2
Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.
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Getting Deeper
How Not to Be Wrong:The Power of Mathematical ThinkingBy Jordan Ellenberg(Penguin Press, 2014) There is a lot of talk these days about teaching problem solving, but not much thought about […]
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