Linda Christensen
Christensen argues that the tight reliance on the format of the literary analysis hinders students’ imaginations, and that they should instead write “unbound” essays of risk-taking and experimentation.
Deborah Meier
“A Nation Prepared” the report of the Carnegie Corporation on teaching as a profession, speaks very strongly to many of the issues school people are concerned about today. It is […]
Linda Christensen
Christensen teaches the writing process by encouraging students to celebrate beloved places with the haibun, a Japanese poetic form.
Tim Swinehart
Swinehart highlights the work of Leah Penniman to teach about the connection between food and racial justice.
Linda Christensen
In this excerpt from Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices, Christensen offers teaching ideas for several poems in the book.
Kelley Dawson
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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.
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 […]
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 […]
Jana Dean
Helping kids who’ve grown up in the truck culture” examine climate change.
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Herbert Kohl
A veteran educator offers pedagogical and personal suggestions learned over 30 years of experience.
Terry Meier
How teachers can prepare themselves to help African-American students embrace Standard English as well as — not instead of — their own dialect.
Lora Lee Duncan
A teacher watches and learns as a potential dropout becomes an active learner.
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 […]
Two teachers describe how evaluations by their fellow teachers gave them a valuable new perspective on their teaching practice.
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.
William Ayers
William Ayers reviews Why School? Reclaiming Education for All of Us by Mike Rose (The New Press, 2009)
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.
Rachel Cloues
In these bleak NCLB days of regimented
Linda Christensen
The celebrated language-arts teacher comes clean” on why she hasn’t graded a student paper in 28 years.”
Diana E. Hess
When teachers present Brown as an icon, students may miss the larger lesson
Priscilla Pardini
If half of U.S. teens are sexually active, why aren’t we giving them the full story?
Cierra Kaler-Jones becomes Rethinking Schools’ first executive director.
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.