Skip to content
Rethinking Schools

Rethinking Schools

  • Archive
  • Cart
  • My Account
  • Logout
  • Login
  • Shop
  • Magazine
    • Current Issue
    • Archives
    • Submission Guidelines
    • Artículos en Español
    • Institutional Site License
  • Books
  • About
    • Job Openings
    • Our History
    • Our Team
  • Donate
  • Events
  • Subscribe

Democracy

Don’t Despair About the Supreme Court

The courts have never been on the side of justice, only moving a few degrees one way or the other, unless pushed by the people. Those words engraved in the marble of the Supreme Court, “Equal Justice Before the Law,” have always been a sham.

Teaching for Peace in a Time of War

Like you, we are angry and fearful about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and these are terrifying times for our students. As Ukrainian educator Igor Tsyvgintsev reminds us, “The entire curriculum of school studies comes down to humaneness.”

Teaching Voting Rights in the Time of Coronavirus

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the 15th Amendment, which promised “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or […]

Who’s Behind the Money?

While names like Rockefeller, Ford, Annenberg, and Carnegie traditionally have dominated foundation-funded education reform, in recent years a new group of foundations has emerged — Gates, Walton, and Broad, to […]

Parents Fight School Closings

During the night and on into the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2004, a determined band of Chicago Public School (CPS) parents and community activists camped at the front door […]

Occupy Education

The South African poet and activist Breyten Breytenbach once said, “You Americans have mastered the art of living with the unacceptable.” We hope this is coming to an end—in schools, […]

We’re Not Blind. Just Follow the Dollar Sign

Chicago’s renaissance” could mean dark age for city’s public schools.”

Youth Take the Lead on High School Reform Issues

Sistas and Brothas United.

Katrina’s Lessons

It wasn’t just the hurricane that devastated the Gulf; it was also a slower, more preventable surge of racism and poverty.

Not in Our Name

Reclaiming the democratic vision of small school reform.

Small Schools Doubletalk

Small schools reform is often accompanied by familiar buzzwords that can mean different things to different people (sometimes called stakeholders”).”

Creating Democratic Schools

A democratic school culture is the best professional development.

A Little School in a Little Chinatown

One of the founders of a folk arts-based school slated to open in Philadelphia this fall hopes small schools can create possibilities for reclaiming communities.

Tackling Tracking

A teacher finds that small school reform presents opportunities to teach about tracking and inequality.

It’s a Good Thing

Teachers can help students express values both in and outside of the classroom.

Rethinking Our Classrooms Among Race and Education Books Censored at Illinois Prison

In late January, authorities at the Danville Correctional Center in east-central Illinois removed more than 200 titles from the prison’s library. One of the books that was confiscated was the Rethinking Schools book Rethinking Our Classrooms: Teaching for Equity and Justice, first published in 1994 and edited by Bill Bigelow, Linda Christensen, Stan Karp, Barbara Miner, and Bob Peterson.

Time to Get Off the Testing Train

While high-profile tests like the SAT are problematic, Karp argues that we need to end the routine standardized tests that plague students and teachers.

40 Acres and a Mule

A high school teacher uses a role play so students can imagine life during Reconstruction, the possibilities of the post-Civil War era, and the difficult decisions that Black communities had to wrestle with.

Why We Should Teach Reconstruction

Unfortunately, the transformative history of Reconstruction has been buried. First by a racist tale masquerading as history and now under a top-down narrative focused on white elites. It’s long overdue we unearth the groundswell of activity that brought down the slavers of the South and set a new standard for freedom we are still struggling to achieve today.

How One 2nd-Grader’s Story Inspired Climate Justice Curriculum

A 2nd-grade teacher shows how connecting a student’s home to the classroom led to profound lessons for all her students — in this case, about pipelines and climate justice.

Red for Ed: The Movement Strengthens and Continues

In 2018, numerous commentators portrayed the West Virginia, Oklahoma, Arizona, and Kentucky school walkouts as a purely “red state” phenomenon. But events this year have made clear that the strike […]

Teacher Unions Take on the Climate Crisis

As young people across the country join the global movement to mobilize school strikes to demand climate action, one group is starting to think more seriously about how to best support those efforts: their teachers.

The Largest Civil Rights Protest You’ve Never Heard Of

The largest civil rights protest wasn’t in the South, it was in New York City in 1964 when hundreds of thousands of students stayed home to protest school segregation. Here’s how today’s students reacted to a lesson about this historic boycott.

You Need Rank and File to Win: How Arizona Teachers Built a Movement

An elementary teacher who helped organize Arizona educators to strike explains how their movement formed and operated, and how it can inspire other teachers’ movements.

“Who Made History? We Made History!”

Fred Glass reviews Eric Blanc’s Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics

Posts navigation

Older posts
  • Contact Us
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Advertise
  • Updates
  • Events
  • Archive
  • Magazine Tables of Contents
  • Zinn Education Project
  • 1-800-669-4192
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Donate
  • Subscribe
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram

Copyright © 2023 Rethinking Schools All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy