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A Lesson on the Japanese-American Internment

Mark Sweeting

World War II, like so many other issues in history, presents the classroom teacher with an overwhelming range of topics. The rise of Nazism and fascism in Europe, the Holocaust, […]

Dear Educators, It Is Time to Fight for Asian America

What is happening now is nothing new. The racism, the devaluing of life of Asian and Asian Americans, the dehumanizing of immigrant workers, the fetishism of — and violence toward — Asian women have been perpetuated throughout U.S. history.

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Ed-Web: Finding Education Resources On-Line

Stan Karp

I was supposed to be getting excited, but it felt more like déjà vu. A central office supervisor had gathered a select group into the principal’s office to tell us […]

Start a Teacher Unions and Social Justice Book Study Group

Thanks to a generous donation, Rethinking Schools is giving away 300 copies of Teacher Unions and Social Justice for use in book study groups.  Teacher Unions and Social Justice is […]

Bias and CD-ROM Encyclopedias

How a 5th Grade Class Integrated Math and Social Studies to Analyze Bias

Bob Peterson

When our elementary school library got its CD-ROM last year, I hoped my fifth-graders would use it for social studies research projects. Little did I know that it would become […]

What Can Teachers Do About Sexual Harassment?

How one high school teacher and his class took on a sensitive but necessary discussion.

Ellen Bravo and Larry Miller

Theresa was the only girl in the metalworking class. When a teacher asked her how things were going with the boys, Theresa replied, “Oh, it’s much better. They don’t grab […]

Stop Scapegoating Immigrants

An editorial critiques California's referendum that would deny a public education to immigrants.

A nauseating stench pervades the anti-immigration referendum on the November ballot in California: the stench of racism.We realize that such blunt descriptions are generally avoided in U.S. political debate, where […]

A Message from the Future II: The Years of Repair

Let’s Not Ask Our Students to “Return to Normal”

Tim Swinehart

The latest installment of our regular Earth, Justice, and Our Classrooms column.

Our picks for books, videos, websites, and other social justice resources — Winter 2020–21

Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History, The Selected Works of Audre Lorde, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks — Young Readers Edition, A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson, Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice, We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, & Possibility, Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, Celebrate People’s History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution