Leaving Children Behind: How “Texas-style” Accountability Fails Latino YouthEdited by Angela Valenzuela State University of New York Press, 2005 313 pp. $73.50 “Everything is bigger in Texas,” the saying goes. Apparently it’s true. […]
If we ignore race and money inequities, small school reform won’t help anything meaningful take root.
Reclaiming the democratic vision of small school reform.
Thanks for helping start Success Tech Academy in Cleveland, Charney says, but tell state leaders they’re going to have to fund these ideas too or your money won’t be well-spent.
The Gates’ $735 million have made them key players in small school reform.
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.
A teacher finds that small school reform presents opportunities to teach about tracking and inequality.
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Budget cuts threaten one of the nation’s best multicultural institutions.
A unit on gender stereotypes inspires students to take action.
A principal deals with a student’s unusual request.
Encourage movements for social justice at the national level.
Texas schools report dropout rates, Enron style.
Making lemonade from NCLB lemons.
A teacher observes social inequities during a class trip.
A Rethinking Schools editor explores the environment’s effects on her students’ health in the classroom.
Things to think about before the laptops arrive in your classroom.
In an era when a U.S. president calls Haiti and African nations shithole countries; a time when hate crimes are on the rise; a time when Black students are suspended at four times the rate of white students; and a time when we have lost 26,000 Black teachers since 2002, building a movement for racial justice in the schools is an urgent task. Black lives will matter at schools only when this movement becomes a mass uprising that unites the power of educator unions and families to transform public education.
Unfortunately, the transformative history of Reconstruction has been buried. First by a racist tale masquerading as history and now under a top-down narrative focused on white elites. It’s long overdue we unearth the groundswell of activity that brought down the slavers of the South and set a new standard for freedom we are still struggling to achieve today.
A high school ethnic studies teacher describes how students in the Pacific Island Club used poetry to refocus the narrative surrounding climate justice onto frontline communities.
A writer interrogates school culture and our collective role in the suicide of a gay 15-year-old 9th grader in Alabama.
A Palestinian American mother describes the alienation that she felt in school, and how she draws on her experiences to imagine the schooling she wants for her children.
Every social justice educator should make building the BLM at School Week of Action during the first week of February a top priority.
A teacher-educator describes how she keeps her students talking about race, even when it’s uncomfortable — and shows how those conversations make better teachers.
