Rachel M. Cohen
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.
Advice to new teachers from teachers who’ve been there: Bill Bigelow, Stephanie Walters, Linda Christensen, Kathy Swope, Kelley Dawson, Stan Karp, David Levine, Bob Peterson and Dale Weiss
Linda Darling-Hammond, Maria E. Hyler
The edTPA will lead to better teachers and more professional respect.
Valencia Abbott, Tamara Anderson, Dawn Bolton, Christina Bustos, Anna O’Brien, Michael Rebne, Heather Smith, and Vanessa Williams
We asked teachers who helped organize “Teach Truth Days of Action” in various parts of the country to describe their days
of action and why they were important. Here’s what they said.
Laura Beth Kelly, Laura Taylor, Cara Djonko-Moore, and Aixa D. Marchand
Teacher educators describe how teachers interpret Tennessee’s “Prohibited Concepts in Instruction” law; vague language suppresses — educators resist.
Linda Christensen
An excerpt from Christensen’s new book, Teaching for Joy and Justice: Re-imagining the Language Arts Classroom.
Following is an interview with Lisa Delpit, an African-American educator who has written several prominent articles on teaching reading and writing to children of color. Her articles have focused, in […]
Barbara Miner
New teachers leave the profession at an alarming rate —and there’s no single reason or easy solutions
Gloria Ladson-Billings
In this era of demands for teacher quality, it is crucial to develop culturally relevant ways to assess teachers.
William Ayers
Among Schoolchildrenby Tracy Kidder Houghton Mifflin Company340 pages, $19.95 Tracy Kidder should stick to writing about houses. Or computers. Or Yuba City. Anything but schools. His popular account of one […]
Barbara Madeloni, Julie Gorlewski
The edTPA distorts the teacher education process and opens the door to Pearson Inc. reaping more profits and power.
Jody Sokolower
Drawing on his experience growing up in a refugee camp in the West Bank and his work with youth, Abbas explores connections that bring Palestine to life for students in the United States.
Alison Kysia
The increasing violence against Muslims, Sikhs, South Asians, and others targeted as Muslim, suggests we, as Americans, are becoming less tolerant and need educational interventions that move beyond post-9/11 teaching strategies that emphasize our peacefulness or oversimplify our histories, beliefs, and rituals in ways that often lead to further stereotyping.
Kelly Dawson
The first year of teaching can be an exhausting nightmare. How one new teacher not only survived, but stayed true to her vision.
Mara Sapon-Shevin, Sue Novinger Robb
The edTPA has become a credentialing requirement in many states. Its implementation has distorted relationships throughout teacher education.
Katie Osgood
A Chicago teacher urges TFA recruits to think twice before they sign up.
Wayne Au
Scripted curriculum de-skills teachers and rewards students for passivity, not critical thinking. A teacher educator urges teachers to organize and fight back.
Ann Pelo
The introduction to the new Rethinking Schools book Rethinking Early Childhood Education
Linda Christensen
In Portland, teachers work together to create teacher-centered professional development.
Rethinking Schools Editors
it is critical and righteous work. And that by doing this work, we join an esteemed collective of educators, past and present, who went for broke teaching children that, to paraphrase Eduardo Galeano, tomorrow can be more than just another name for today.
Alex Diamond
As he finishes his two-year commitment to TFA, a young teacher ponders the training and guidance he received.
the editors of Rethinking Schools
Recently, we posted an article at the Rethinking Schools Facebook page that listed reasons why parents should opt their children out of standardized testing, including “standardized tests narrow the curriculum.” […]
Joseph Bruchac
My own first experiences in teaching American Indian literature came after three years in West Africa. I returned to the United States in 1969 and found myself at Skidmore College […]
Wayne Au
The dangers to the teaching profession are real, but is edTPA the solution?
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.
