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The Story of Rachel and Sadie

A unique lesson on how teachers can help their students think about the obstacles to speaking up and standing together for social justice.

Acting for Justice

Students sometimes have difficulty seeing how they can stand up against oppression. Here are some ways to help students to “practice” behaving as allies.”

Subtractive Schooling

What happens when schools disrespect students’ cultural heritage and when teachers fail to listen to the students?

Time to Learn

The first year of teaching can be an exhausting nightmare. How one new teacher not only survived, but stayed true to her vision.

Teaching and Cultural Competence

What does it take to be a successful teacher in an urban classroom? An excerpt from Ladson-Billings’ new book, Crossing to Canaan.

Lessons Learned

Some of the lessons that Gloria Ladson-Billings has drawn from working with the Teach for Diversity certification program, as mentioned in the article above.

Race and the Achievement Gap

Using standardized tests to measure achievement perpetuates a system of institutionalized racism and lends the cloak of science to discrimination.

Vouchers, Accountability, and Money

Voucher backers are ignoring key lessons from Milwaukee’s voucher experience, including higher tax burdens and less accountability for academic achievement.

Bush’s Bad Idea for Bilingual Ed

The president proposes a three-year time limit for non-English speakers to attain ‘English fluency.’ Here’s why that’s a big mistake.

Rethinking Schools

Editorial It’s been 15 years since a group of activist teachers started Rethinking Schools, using only a temperamental Apple IIe and a kitchen table that stood in for a layout board. Some thoughts on how we’ve evolved since that humble beginning, and how we’ve stayed the same.

Creating A Vision of Possibility

An excerpt from her new book, Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching About Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word.

Saxophone

Student writing from Reading, Writing, and Rising Up.

Forward to the Past?

Issues of segregation, insufficient funding, and hurried decision-making envelop Milwaukee’s return to neighborhood schools

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