It was a letter to the CalSTRS board, demanding that they dump the pension fund’s investments in oil and gas companies. It was signed “From the many young climate justice activists who will continue to be at every one of your meetings until you divest.”
Joy is not an escape from the hard realities of our world, but a dive into them.
The best picks from Rethinking Schools for resources for your classroom and for your mind.
There is no end-point in the fight for justice and equality, no moment when the argument is finally settled. As Angela Davis has said, “Freedom is a constant struggle.” Although that proposition seems exhausting, it is also hopeful. If our wins are never wholly secure, then neither must our losses be permanent. The struggle for reproductive justice continues, and our curriculum must nurture our students’ capacity to envision and participate in its next stages.
Have we reached a point in history where we are ready to embrace a new way of living in the world, expanding not our military power, but our humanity?
Dear Rethinking Schools: My name is Leslie Hiatt and I teach 5th grade in Bell Gardens, California. I want you to know how much the article “What I Wish I […]
The best picks from Rethinking Schools for resources for your classroom and for your mind (Winter 2021-22 edition).
Loewen left a robust collection of books, articles, interviews, and generations of teachers he inspired to teach outside the textbook.
We need more books that celebrate young people who find themselves as they come to consciousness and commitment.
To the class that never was You exist only as ghost children, and I to you a ghost teacher.Do I know you?What did you look like, behind your black Zoom square? What […]
In an article introducing the student-friendly short video, A Message from the Future, about life after the Green New Deal, Naomi Klein points out: Almost every vision of the future […]
In an article introducing the student-friendly short video, A Message from the Future, about life after the Green New Deal, Naomi Klein points out: Almost every vision of the future […]
The latest installment of our regular Earth, Justice, and Our Classrooms column.
There is something about oil and gas pipelines. The way you can look at a map of hundreds of thousands of miles of the terrible tubes, seeing how tightly the […]
The smartest piece I have read during the COVID-19 era is Ibram X. Kendi’s May 4 Atlantic article “We’re Still Living and Dying in the Slaveholders’ Republic.” When armed demonstrators […]
International Movement for Public Education; Gay-Straight Alliances Show Long-Term Benefits
International Movement for Public Education; Gay-Straight Alliances Show Long-Term Benefits
