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New Online Workshop Series from Rethinking Schools

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Schools Reopen — and Teachers Fight for Their Lives, Their Students, and the Future of Public Education

Sarah Jaffe

As schools begin to reopen, within teacher unions around the country, teachers have been coming together to discuss the risks they’re willing to take — both to protect public health […]

Short Stuff 23.2

One Solution to Teacher Retention If they build it, then they will stay. At least that’s the thinking behind the L.A. Unified School District’s plan to develop low-cost apartments for […]

Racial Breakdowns of Selected Public Private Schools

One of the questions about the voucher program in Milwaukee is how it will affect racial integration in Milwaukee schools. A number of voucher supporters have argued that the city’s […]

Climate Justice Kit

In May, the Portland, Oregon school board unanimously passed the most comprehensive climate literacy policy of any school district in the country, pledging to abandon the use of text materials […]

To Michelle

Donald P. LankiewiczVice President and Editor-in-ChiefSocial StudiesMay 14, 2001 Dear Michelle, Thank you for your recent letter regarding Harcourt Brace Social Studies United States. It is always a pleasure to […]

To Harcourt Brace and Company

Harcourt Brace and Company6277 Sea Harbor DriveOrlando, Florida 32887 Dear editors of United States Fifth Grade Textbook, I am a fifth grader at La Escuela Fratney. I am 11 years […]

Funding for Justice

A Special Report on Finance and Equity

the editors of Rethinking Schools.

Why are schools for the poor underfunded? Why are urban schools increasingly populated by children of color? Why, more than 40 years after Brown v. Board of Education, are our […]

Introduction: Zapatista Movement

Rethinking Schools Editors

On Jan. 1, 1994, the world learned of the Zapatisa movement when an army of 12,000 Zapatistas seized control of towns and municipalities throughout the state of Chiapas in southern […]

Good Stuff 17.3

Herbert Kohl

VOYAGING ACROSS CULTURES Caravan to America: Living Arts of the Silk Road, Major, John S. and Belanus, Betty J. (forward by Yo-Yo Ma). (Chicago: Cricket Books/A Marcato Book, 2002). Math […]