A UTLA organizer details the emergence of LA Educators for Justice in Palestine and the organizing that led to the second largest teacher union in the country to call for divestment from companies and bonds associated with Israel’s military actions in Gaza.
Sanchez discusses the transformative new contract won by the Chicago Teachers Union and why their struggle serves as a blueprint for others in this moment.
Hagopian details how Seattle educators, students, and parents stopped their district’s school closure plan.
Hayes shares lessons from the Chicago Teachers Union’s efforts to protect undocumented students.
Sanchez describes how pro-Israel activists are bringing the war on teaching truth into blue cities like Philadelphia.
Two strike captains reflect on what they learned from spending three weeks on the picket line in Portland teachers’ first-ever strike.
Drawing inspiration from the 1972 National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana, New Jersey students and teachers organize a convention to discuss issues facing Black communities today.
Dear Rethinking Schools friends, Like you, we are angry and fearful about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is already causing immense suffering — which will only increase. These are […]
Teachers nationwide have been standing up to register their resistance and solidarity, organizing rallies, supporting school board candidates who reject these bills, and doubling down on their own efforts to learn and teach about race.
To respond to the right-wing legislation across the country, which attacks racial justice teaching, the Zinn Education Project organized a “Pledge to Teach the Truth” and invited educators to say […]
New York City has become the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, and its public schools, which serve 1.1 million students and employ nearly 135,000 people, officially closed on March 17. […]
Rethinking Ethnic Studies has been recognized as an INDIES Book of the YEAR Awards Winner in the education category.
Wisconsin Uprising — Justice Is in the Air
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Iraq’s children have been more gravely affected by the U.S. occupation than any other segment of the population.”
Ohio attempts to close achievement gap by focusing on 9th-grade males
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Sistas and Brothas United.
One of the founders of a folk arts-based school slated to open in Philadelphia this fall hopes small schools can create possibilities for reclaiming communities.
Sacramento On Aug. 13, 2004, the California Supreme Court settled a historic case— Williams v. the State of California. The Williams decision validated the concerns of many Californians that the state had fallen […]
Texas schools report dropout rates, Enron style.
In late January, authorities at the Danville Correctional Center in east-central Illinois removed more than 200 titles from the prison’s library. One of the books that was confiscated was the Rethinking Schools book Rethinking Our Classrooms: Teaching for Equity and Justice, first published in 1994 and edited by Bill Bigelow, Linda Christensen, Stan Karp, Barbara Miner, and Bob Peterson.
As young people across the country join the global movement to mobilize school strikes to demand climate action, one group is starting to think more seriously about how to best support those efforts: their teachers.
In 2018, numerous commentators portrayed the West Virginia, Oklahoma, Arizona, and Kentucky school walkouts as a purely “red state” phenomenon. But events this year have made clear that the strike […]
I worked with ArtXpress — a program for teens through the Milwaukee Art Museum — as an intern for three weeks over the summer. Our mission was to choose a […]
