Teaching that Food Justice Is Racial Justice
Tim Swinehart
Swinehart highlights the work of Leah Penniman to teach about the connection between food and racial justice.
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Excerpts from Teaching Palestine’s Poetry Teaching Guide
Linda Christensen
In this excerpt from Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices, Christensen offers teaching ideas for several poems in the book.
Best Discipline is Good Curriculum
Running a classroom can be easier when both students and teachers care about what's being taught
Kelley Dawson
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The Voice of a Seed
Honoring Indigenous Voices with 1st Graders
Caitlin Blood
I hope that centering Indigenous voices in the classroom and school garden will teach my students the value of Indigenous ways of knowing. As they develop an awareness of the social injustice and resilience that characterizes the stories of Indigenous peoples and their food cultures, I want them to be dissatisfied with the absence of Native narratives and seek out the voices of the tribes themselves.
Cincinnati: Teachers Evaluating Teachers
Barbara Miner
Diana Porter, who has been teaching in the Cincinnati public schools for 20 years, has been evaluated by the administration three times: after her first and third years, and once […]
Whole Language: What’s the Fuss?
The following is condensed from an interview with Harvey Daniels. Daniels teaches at National-Louis University in Evanston, Il, where he directs the Center for City Schools. He is the author […]
Teaching About Global Warming in Truck Country
A middle school teacher helps the heirs of truck culture examine climate change
Jana Dean
Helping kids who’ve grown up in the truck culture” examine climate change.
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Teaching for Social Justice 15.2
A veteran educator offers pedagogical and personal suggestions learned over 30 years experience.
Herbert Kohl
A veteran educator offers pedagogical and personal suggestions learned over 30 years of experience.
Teaching Teachers About Black Communications
Terry Meier
How teachers can prepare themselves to help African-American students embrace Standard English as well as — not instead of — their own dialect.
Michael, the Student Who Inspired Me to Quit Teaching
Lora Lee Duncan
A teacher watches and learns as a potential dropout becomes an active learner.
Don’t Stop Teaching About Gaza
the editors of Rethinking Schools
As this issue of Rethinking Schools went online, Israel and Hamas reached the first stage of a ceasefire agreement. Although it is still unclear whether this ceasefire will last beyond the first […]
Teachers As Learners
Two teachers describe how evaluations by their fellow teachers gave them a valuable new perspective on their teaching practice.
One Long Struggle for Justice
Bill Bigelow
In his last recorded broadcast, Zinn holds forth on Haiti, persistent silences in the curriculum, and early influences in his life before offering advice to new teachers.
Reclaiming Education for All of Us
William Ayers
William Ayers reviews Why School? Reclaiming Education for All of Us by Mike Rose (The New Press, 2009)
Big City Superintendents: Dictatorship or Democracy? Lessons from Paulo Freire
Bob Peterson
Did you know Paulo Freire was once superintendent of schools in Ṣo Paulo, Brazil? Rethinking Schools editor and 5th grade teacher Bob Peterson describes how the world-famous author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed put his theories into practice in a poverty-stricken urban school district.
Reading First, Libraries Last
Scripted programs undermine teaching and children's love of books
Rachel Cloues
In these bleak NCLB days of regimented
Moving Beyond Judgment
My dirty little secret: I don't grade papers
Linda Christensen
The celebrated language-arts teacher comes clean” on why she hasn’t graded a student paper in 28 years.”
Deconstructing the Brown Myth
Diana E. Hess
When teachers present Brown as an icon, students may miss the larger lesson
Abstinence-Only Education Continues to Flourish
If Half of U.S. Teens are sexually active, why aren't we giving them the full story on contraception and STD prevention?
Priscilla Pardini
If half of U.S. teens are sexually active, why aren’t we giving them the full story?
Welcome, Cierra Kaler-Jones!
Cierra Kaler-Jones becomes Rethinking Schools’ first executive director.
The 2020 Presidential Election: Educators Speak Out
Julia Torres, Camila Arze Torres Goitia, Carla Shalaby, Thomas Nikundiwe, Emma Teng, Brian Jones, Leigh Patel, Arlene Inouye, Denisha Jones, Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Ashana Bigard, Eric Blanc, Suzanna Kassouf, Ivelis Pérez
We asked a group of radical educators to weigh in on what they hoped would be part of any 2020 presidential candidate’s education platform.
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.
The Military Invasion of My High School
The role of JROTC
Sylvia McGauley
A high school teacher describes the problematic impact of the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps at her school.
Education in South Africa: Life in a “Colored” School
While the black — white conflict in South Africa is often headline news, we hear little about South Africa’s 3.2 million people of Asian and mixed race background. In the […]