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Rhythm and Resistance: Teaching Poetry for Social Justice
Our new book, Rhythm and Resistance edited by Linda Christensen and Dyan Watson, offers practical lessons about how to teach poetry to build community, understand literature and history, talk back to injustice, […]
Black Students’ Lives Matter: Building the school-to-justice pipeline
By the editors of Rethinking Schools Read the full article on our website: rethinkingschools.org. We’re at a tipping point. The killings of Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis, Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, Renisha […]
A People’s Curriculum for the Earth – book review
Education for Liberation wrote an excellent review of A People’s Curriculum for the Earth. One of our favorite quotes from the review, “This book offers plenty of ways to inspire […]
“The Agitator” at Rethinking Schools
Helen Gym is a member of the Rethinking Schools editorial board, but that is only one of many hats she wears in her life as a mom, spouse, educator, and […]
Hot Enough for You? Time to Teach Against Fossil Fuels
by Bill Bigelow Here in the Pacific Northwest, we’ve been spared most of the brutal weather experienced in the rest of the country. Throughout the United States, in the month […]
Summer Reading Recommendations
It’s summertime, and who doesn’t need a few good books to take to the beach or park? Listed here are some of the books we’ve recommended in Rethinking Schools magazine in […]
Spotlight on Dyan Watson
Dyan Watson joined the Rethinking Schools team as an editorial associate last year. You’ve probably noticed her wonderful articles in the magazine: “What Do You Mean When You Say Urban” […]
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 […]
What is Childhood For?
What is childhood for? That’s the question that Rethinking Early Childhood Education editor Ann Pelo raises in this blog post, a previously unpublished piece that Ann wrote for the book […]
Ballot Question in Boston Would Silence Teachers
As Rethinking Schools’ representative to the National Network of Teacher Activist Groups, I hear a lot of news about exciting organizing (and outrageous attacks on education). Recently, TAG Boston told […]
Behind the Curtain in Tucson: A letter from Curtis Acosta
[On Jan. 10, the governing board of Tucson schools voted to terminate the popular and enormously successful Mexican American Studies program, under pressure from the Arizona state superintendent of education. […]
Banning Critical Teaching in Arizona: A Letter From Curtis Acosta
Perhaps you’ve seen the wonderful film, Precious Knowledge, about the Mexican American Studies program in Tucson. One of the teachers featured is Curtis Acosta, along with his remarkable students. In […]
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 […]
Zombie NCLB still stalking our schools
by Stan Karp Anniversaries are often cause for celebration… but the 10th anniversary of No Child Left Behind is mostly a time for damage assessment. A new report from FairTest […]
‘Repeat After Me: The United States Is Not an Imperialist Country—Oh, and Don’t Get Emotional About War’
By Bill Bigelow You may have seen that an administrative law judge in Arizona, Lewis Kowal, just upheld the decree by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction that Tucson’s Mexican […]
Michelle Alexander on The New Jim Crow and the school-to-prison pipeline
by Jody Sokolower Last spring I went to hear Michelle Alexander, the dynamic author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. She spoke to an […]
From the Archives: Unwrapping the Holidays
A recent conversation in a Facebook group I’m a part of centered on the celebration of the holiday, specifically Christmas. The conversation started with this: “My school is very, very […]
Children’s Literature for the 99%
by Elizabeth Marshall Children’s literature is inherently political, whether it upholds social and economic inequality or resists it. For educators, the Occupy Wall Street movement offers an opportunity to think […]