Letters

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Rethinking Schools’ focus on the school-to-prison pipeline is made possible by the generous support of Atlantic Philanthropies and Michelle Fine, principal investigator of the Ford Secondary Education and Racial Justice Project.

A Letter to Our Readers

Dear Rethinking Schools friends, To borrow from Dickens, for Rethinking Schools this has been the best of times and the worst of times. The best? We’ve never played a more important […]

SOS March Builds Pushback to Corporate Reform

Pushing back against sustained attacks on teachers and public education, thousands of educators, parents, and activists came to Washington, D.C., July 28–31 to “Save Our Schools.” They responded to the […]

Keywords

Keywords By Raymond Williams(Oxford University Press, 1985) Keywords for Children’s LiteratureEdited by Phillip Nel and Lissa Paul(NYU Press, 2011) The writing and content of Rethinking Schools is 25 years young, fresh, and honest—no […]

Our picks for books, websites, and other resources for social justice teaching.

This Is What Solidarity Looks Like

All of us have learned some lessons about the meaning of solidarity from the recent events in Wisconsin. Gov. Scott Walker’s so-called “budget repair bill” was a draconian assault on […]

Reshaping the American Dream

The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century

By Grace Lee Boggs with Scott Kurashige

Short Stuff 25.4

Peterson Elected Head of Milwaukee Teachers’ Union Bob Peterson, a founding editor and board president of Rethinking Schools, was recently elected president of the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association, capping a […]

What’s in a Name?

The Name Jar By Yangsook Choi(Random House Children’s Books, 2003) I teach in an ethnically, culturally, religiously, and linguistically diverse public school district, so it’s important to me to encourage […]

Save Our Schools

Washington, D.C.March and Rally • Sat., July 30 Pre-March Conference • July 28-29 Post-March Next Steps • July 31 If America needs to reform its public schools, why aren’t public school teachers, students, […]

Our picks for books, websites, and other resources for social justice teaching

Resources 25.2

Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.

SHORTS 25.2

Chicago Parents Demand a School Library and Win

Letters to the Editors 25.1

PACT: Intrusion or Opportunity to Learn? I just read Ann Berlak’s piece, “Coming Soon to Your Favorite Credential Program: National Exit Exams”(Summer 2010). Professor Berlak makes substantive arguments about the dangers […]

Puerto Rican Students Win Major Victory

After a two-month strike at all 11 campuses of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), students won the most impressive victory in the history of the university—and one of the […]

Tricksters and Their Opposite

Trickster: Native American Tales   Edited by Matt Dembicki(Fulcrum Books, 2010)496 pp., $27.95 By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives By Spoon Jacksonand Judith Tannenbaum(New Village Press, 2010)200 pp., $24.95 Trickster grew […]