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When Schools Compete

Edward B. Fiske and Helen F. Ladd

The search for more effective ways to organize and manage state educational systems has become a global phenomenon. In recent years attention in many countries has focused on two distinct but interrelated sets of ideas.

Our picks for books, videos, websites, and other social justice resources — Fall 2020

*** Curriculum Guide for Racial Justice & Abolitionist Social and Emotional Learning (Abolitionist Teaching Network, 2020)bit.ly/2DUWg0E12 pp. This online Guide for Racial Justice & Abolitionist Social and Emotional Learning is […]

Protesting Pipelines

Teaching the Indigenous-Led Movement Against Fossil Fuel Infrastructure

Ursula Wolfe-Rocca

There is something about oil and gas pipelines. The way you can look at a map of hundreds of thousands of miles of the terrible tubes, seeing how tightly the […]

Lessons in 2020

Mercedes Muñoz

2020 did not make me,But neither did you break me,Separating families like cheap blinds,With the vinyl bubbling up in the middle,I still found a way to see,Determining how much light […]

Our Stories: Students Curate the Museum of Corona History

Rabiya Kassam-Clay

The best teachers that I’ve had are still quiet voices in my head. In college, I took Professor Phyllis Jackson’s art history course “Black Aesthetics and the Politics of (Re)presentation.” […]

A Field Trip to the Future

Helping Students Imagine a Better World

Kurt Ostrow

“What’s the point of museums?” I ask one day to kick off class. I teach English at a public high school in Fall River, a deindustrialized city on Massachusetts’ southeastern […]

Cops Don’t Keep Kids Safe at School: The Case Against School Police

Harley Litzelman

Before I was taught a single teaching technique, I was taught to fight school shooters. At the start of the Stanford Teacher Education Program, we took a seat in the […]

Teaching the Radical Rosa Parks

Bill Bigelow

My wife Linda and I began our COVID-19 shelter-in-place pretty early in the pandemic. I went to my last in-person meeting on Wednesday, March 11. The next day, we canceled […]

“Song for Tamir Rice”

Learning and Teaching Music as a Catalyst for “Coming to Voice”

Martin Urbach

Tamir Elijah Rice was a 12-year-old murdered by a white Cleveland police officer in 2014 who was responding to a 911 call about a male pointing a gun at random […]

Say Their Names

Kara Hinderlie Stroman

“I can’t breathe . . . please . . . Mama!”The knee choking the neck to deathPolice hands in pockets andIndifferent expressionsAnother day on the J-O-BAnd moreMore details I can […]