Howling at the Ocean
Surviving My First Year Teaching
Jaydra Johnson
A first-year teacher struggles with what it means to be a social justice educator.
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The Importance of Goodbye
When Students Leave Midyear
Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
A high school teacher explores how the dynamics of a classroom can change when a student leaves and what the effects can be on that student, the other students, and the teacher.
“Do You Have Batman Shoulders?”
Middle school math students explore the disproportions of their favorite childhood toys
Flannery Denny
A math teacher uses Barbies and action figures to teach proportional reasoning and other skills — and to help students think about society’s expectations of our shapes and sizes.
The 2020 Election and the World Our Students Deserve
the editors of Rethinking Schools
The central tasks of the 2020 campaign are to defeat Trump and to strengthen the impact of grassroots social movements on the U.S. political system. If we pursue these goals with energy, hope, and passion, we will win a chance to build the world our students deserve.
Good Stuff 24.2 Sports and Society
Herb Kohl
A People’s History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play By Dave Zirin(The New Press, 2008)302 pp. $18.95 Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading […]
Good Stuff 26.4
Stand for Justice
Melissa Bollow Tempel
Helping Teens Stop Violence, Build Community, and Stand for JusticeBy Allan Creighton and Paul Kivel(Hunter House, 2011)204 pp. $19.95 “It is an assumption of our work that young people are […]
Letters 26.3
Someone sent me the link to Melissa Bollow Tempel’s “It’s OK to Be Neither” (Fall 2011). I just wanted to tell you I think what she’s doing is absolutely wonderful […]
Short Stuff 26.2
International Movement for Public Education Privatization, standardized tests, funding cuts, attacks on teachers’ unions and contracts—the issues that are central to teacher activism in the United States are international. In […]
From the Race to the Top to the Plunge to the Bottom
The Pandemic and Federal Education Policy
Stan Karp
Horror movie sequels are notoriously bad. This one may be the worst. In 2009, federal intervention during the last financial crisis gave rise to the Obama administration’s signature education initiative: […]
Big Reactions to Small Steps
One Teacher’s Story About Using Inclusive Children’s Literature
Nettie Harrington Pangallo
Harrington Pangallo describes pushback for reading a book to answer a student question — “What does gay mean?” — and her response.
Resources 25.2
Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.
Fifth-Grade Detectives Uncover the Dominant Narrative
Erin Green
Green and her students “cover” the standards by doing a representational inquiry and discover that most of the people they are supposed to learn about are white men.
When the Gender Boxes Don’t Fit
Ericka Sokolower-Shain
The first day of high school is hard enough. Walking down the halls, trying to find my next class, surrounded by a sea of people who looked hundreds of years older, I felt like I had a red blinking sign over my head that flashed freshman every five seconds.
Instructional Time
Teaching Beyond Tolerance
Ty Marshall
A transgender middle school teacher wrestles with a school and community that tries to hide their identity.
Join Rethinking Schools in Protesting the Proposed Firing of 1st-Grade Teacher Melissa Bollow Tempel
Melissa Bollow Tempel is an excellent bilingual teacher in Waukesha, Wisconsin, loved by students and parents. Her classroom is a model learning community, welcoming all students, nurturing their growth, celebrating […]
Of Mice and Marginalization
We “soft-launched” our fall issue on our website over the weekend. Perhaps you already checked it out, or if you’re a subscriber, you have the magazine in hand already. If […]
From the Race to the Top to the Plunge to the Bottom
As bad as the Obama/Duncan era was for public education, the current administration is even more hostile, much more corrupt, and more committed to an all-sided privatization agenda.
Post-patriarchy?
by Jody Sokolower, managing editor of Rethinking Schools and lead editor for Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality I came of age in the late 60s, when abortion was illegal, women were […]