Magazine Tables of Contents Archive

Teaching Palestine Named 2025 Skipping Stones Honor Award Winner

Rethinking Schools is honored to announce that Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices was named a 2025 Skipping Stones Book Award recipient.  Palestine has long been one of the great silences […]

Transgender Justice in Schools Wins Multiple Book Awards

Rethinking Schools is thrilled to announce Transgender Justice in Schools, co-edited by Linda Christensen and Ty Marshall, has been awarded a 2024 Foreword INDIES Silver Book of the Year Award, […]

Bob Peterson Honored with the Tony Baez Lifetime Achievement Award

We are thrilled to share that Bob Peterson, co-founder of Rethinking Schools and member of the editorial board and Board of Directors, has been honored with the Tony Baez Lifetime […]

Rethinking Schools’ open letter to the NEA on the leadership’s decision to overturn the democratic vote of the members to drop the ADL

“Over the past 21 months of war, more than 17,000 children have reportedly been killed and 33,000 injured in Gaza,” UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell recently told the United Nations […]

Writing for Publication: D.C. Writing Workshop

Writing can be a transformative tool for community-building and activism. Join Rethinking Schools and D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice for a three-day, in-person writers’ workshop in Washington, D.C. This workshop invites […]

NEA Conference on Racial and Social Justice

More than 800 educators from across the country convened in Portland, Oregon, from June 29-July 1 to learn, strategize, and organize for racial and social justice in classrooms and communities.  […]

From Muffins to Movements:

Building Teacher Communities of Resistance

Kushya Sugarman and Laura Taylor

Sugarman and Taylor detail the challenges and successes of teachers using Teaching for Black Lives study groups to refuse isolation and defy the crackdown on anti-racist education.

Building the School-to-Abolition Pipeline

Nataliya Braginsky

A high school teacher explains how restorative justice helps students envision a different model of justice and community at school.

Original Sins — and What to Do About Them

An Interview with Eve L. Ewing

Cierra Kaler-Jones

Cierra Kaler-Jones interviews author Eve L. Ewing about her new book Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism.

“I Really Felt Like I Was Using My Writing for Good”

Student Writing on Redlining, Urban Renewal, and Gentrification — The Definition Essay

Linda Christensen

Christensen details strategies to encourage students to write essays that matter while they investigate decades of housing discrimination in their neighborhood.