Solidarity with Seattle Education Association
Dear Seattle Education Association, Rethinking Schools editors and staff express our solidarity as you go on strike for better schools for your students along with their families and for just […]
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A Lesson Plan for Strikebreaking Substitute Teachers
A Lesson Plan for Strikebreaking Substitute Teachers By Russ Peterson Editor’s Note: Portland, Oregon language arts teacher Russ Peterson sent this lesson plan to colleagues, who are preparing to strike […]
Won’t Back Down won’t be real about school reform
Thinking about seeing a movie this weekend? Take our advice and avoid Won’t Back Down. Below, Helen Gym, a Rethinking Schools editorial associate and parent activist in Philadelphia, shares why. Her commentary […]
Former Stand activists speak out on ballot initiative
Rethinking Schools supporter and education activist Alain Jehlen is involved in an organized effort to halt the corporate-driven reform agenda of Stand for Children. Here’s the latest from Alain, including […]
The Silence of Struggle in the Curriculum
by Bill Bigelow One of the great silences in the mainstream school curriculum is the role that social movements have played in making this a fairer, more peaceful, more democratic […]