Volume 39, No. 1

Election Myths and Movement Hopes

U.S. presidential elections are wrapped in myths about “democracy” that mask a profoundly undemocratic system.

Simulating Redlining: When “Race Was the Real Currency”

By Adam Sanchez

A high school social studies teacher describes a classroom simulation where students experience the effects of decades of racist federal housing policies.

Why Do You Live Where You Live?

Using Interactive Maps to Connect Past Racist Housing Policy to the Present

By Carl Faucher

A middle school English teacher uses online mapping tools to connect past racist housing policy to the present.

Green, Blue, Yellow, Red:  Mapping Spatial Injustice

By Jacob Barton

Layering maps, a former high school science teacher illustrates spatial injustice in air quality and highway construction.

Educators Beware: The Anti-Defamation League Is Not the Social Justice Partner It Claims to Be

By Nora Lester Murad

Murad details how the Anti-Defamation League exploits and exaggerates rising antisemitism to push an anti-justice, pro-Israel agenda in schools.

PragerU Ambushes Our Schools

By Karen Elias

Meet the right-wing nonprofit attempting to push racism, sexism, and climate denial in public schools.

Erasing Palestinian History: The Propaganda of PragerU’s Israel Series

By Jesse Hagopian

Hagopian critiques a new set of PragerU videos that seek to justify Israeli occupation.

Traditional Ecological Knowledge in the Preschool Classroom: An Interview with Nichole Efird

By Jen Sauer

Tennessee teacher Jen Sauer interviews Cherokee teacher Nichole Efird about how to bring Indigenous culture and knowledge into the preschool classroom.

“More People Get What They Need”

First Graders Explore Light, Sound, and Accessibility

By Sarah Arnett

First graders learn about accessibility and empathy through constructing emergency signals.

Rethinking Teaching About the USPHS Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee: A Revision that Centers Resistance

By Gretchen Kraig-Turner

A high school science teacher revises her lesson on the USPHS Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee to center resistance.

Our picks for books, videos, websites, and other social justice resources 39.1

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

Environmental Justice Activists Look Like My Students

By Moé Yonamine

High school students envision alternative uses for a planned freight distribution warehouse near their school — and challenge their own conceptions of environmental activists in the process.