Inclusive Schools Archives

Big Reactions to Small Steps

Harrington Pangallo describes pushback for reading a book to answer a student question — “What does gay mean?” — and her response.

What Catalina Taught Me About Inclusion

Asking a student about her communication preferences brings interdependence and solidarity into a kindergarten classroom.

Shape-Shifting Segregation Policies

A teacher educator helps preservice teachers understand the history of how Mexican Americans have been racialized as Black and white at different times to keep them out of white schools.

Parents Fight School Closings

During the night and on into the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2004, a determined band of Chicago Public School (CPS) parents and community activists camped at the front door […]

Schools and the New Jim Crow

The author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness applies her thought-provoking analysis to children, schools, and priorities for education activism.

The Classroom to Prison Pipeline

A master teacher faces a classroom revolt. She realizes that, no matter how imminent the high-stakes test, stopping the school-to-prison pipeline begins in the classroom with student-centered, meaningful curriculum.

Haniyah’s Story

Haniyah wrote this article as a 17-year-old participant in Project WHAT! a program of Community Works West, based in Berkeley, Calif. The young people in Project WHAT! all have family […]

Keepers of the Second Throat

When Chicago stole my mother’s tongue, it also stole all her yesterdays. A poet’s lyric plea for teachers to nurture their students voices and stories.

Bad Signs

What are the real messages in the inspirational slogans covering classroom walls? Plus some better alternatives.

An Open Letter to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund from the Association of Raza Educators

The Association of Raza Educators implores you: open your scholarships to all students of Hispanic descent regardless of citizenship.

Everything Flowers

I noted the biased curriculum… the absence of lessons on the Chicano movement or other aspects of my history and culture

Pump Up the Blowouts

This year is the 40th anniversary of the Chicana/o School Blowouts

Beyond NCLB

A new era requires new thinking

Underfunded Schools Cut Past Tense from Language Programs

A part of American school curricula for more than 200 years

Queer Matters

While we were excited to support the opening of the educational closet

Building Teacher Solidarity

“I would really like to see a new movement that gives the kind of hope
for change that there was when I came into teaching in the late 1960s.”

Prophet Motives

Any discussion of charter schools must ask not only whether charters promote a worthwhile vision of public education

Do Ask, Do Tell

Two Chicago educators question the premier teacher education accrediting agency’s removal of social justice and sexual orientation language from its standards.