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Transgender Justice in Schools: It’s a Life-or-Death Thing
The death of Nex Benedict, a 10th-grade student and member of the Choctaw Nation, underscores the life-or-death consequences for nonbinary students when lawmakers play politics with their lives. Nex’s death […]
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Existing Outside of the Binary in the Classroom
A nonbinary educator reflects on the difficulty and the power of being out in school.
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Nurturing a Rainbow of Resistance to Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws
Christensen describes teaching high school students about new anti-LGBTQ+ laws — and the growing resistance to them.
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Trans Students Speak Out
We asked transgender students what teachers have done and could do to support nonbinary students. Here’s how they responded.
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What I Found in Iowa
A poem by Linea King
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Lessons from Wisconsin: The Slow, Stealthy, and Strategic Threat of School Vouchers
Peterson details how the success of vouchers in Wisconsin is becoming a national model for the right and draws on his experience in the state to make a case against them.
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Reparations and Education Justice
An Interview with Bettina Love
Cierra Kaler-Jones interviews Bettina Love about her new book Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal.
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My Struggle with Identity in a White Education System
Jackson reflects on the racist history he learned in school as a child and powerfully connects those experiences to his own incarceration.
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Grounding in Our Roots: Preserving Family History Through Migration Narratives
A high school language arts teacher writes about the power of students interviewing family and friends to develop migration narratives.
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For Students to Understand Today’s Violence in Palestine-Israel, We Need to Teach About Zionism and the British Empire
Bigelow details a new mixer lesson about the roots of Zionism in the classroom — and its relevance for today’s crisis.
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A Parent’s Nightmare: Big Tech, Advertising, and the Exploitation of Children
Katz and Sanchez review Who’s Raising the Kids? Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children by Susan Linn
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Our picks for books, videos, websites, and other social justice resources 38.4
Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.
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Debunking False Climate Solutions in Our Classrooms
An environmental justice teacher encourages students to critically examine proposed solutions to climate change.
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