Where Is Our Community Organizer-in-Chief?

There is a disturbing overlap between Obama’s educational policies and those of George W. Bush. The nations schools don’t need an entrepreneur-in-chief; we need national leadership that supports critical thinking, educating the whole child, and democratic participation from the ground up.

Goodbye — and Welcome

This is the first issue of Rethinking Schools magazine in eight years for which Jody Sokolower was not the managing editor. Jody stepped down in April to focus on local […]

Bilingual Education: Stories from the Heart

As always, Rethinking Schools has several new books in process. This issue we feature three articles destined for one of these: Rethinking Bilingual Education, edited by Grace Cornell Gonzales, Elizabeth […]