Magazine Tables of Contents Archive

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.

Teaching “Mexican Repatriation”:

Uncovering Histories of Deportation and Belonging

Erin Green

A 5th-grade teacher engages students in a unit on the forced deportation of 2 million Mexicans and Mexican Americans from the United States during the Great Depression.

I’m a Muslim High School Student. I Fear Texas’ New Bible-Infused Curriculum.

Marium Zahra

A high school student criticizes Texas’ new reading and language arts elementary school curriculum that encourages teachers to bring Christianity into classrooms.

Trump’s Education by Indoctrination Must Be Fought with Social Justice Unionism

Jesse Hagopian

Hagopian argues social justice unionism is the key to fighting the creeping fascism behind Trump’s effort to control what is taught in schools.

Parable of the Sower and Climate Futures

Mimi Eisen

Eisen explores themes for classroom discussion as well as disturbing similarities between our present moment and the dystopian future portrayed in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower.