Image Credit: Joe Brusky (Text available in Spanish on our website.) Our class was part of a developmental bilingual program with all native Spanish speakers. I had introduced literature discussions the previous […]
It’s Valentine’s Day–a day filled with joy and surprises, but also angst and disappointments–and sometimes all of the above! Let’s help children climb out of the emotionally wrought Valentine’s Day […]
Many of you are familiar with the work of Tucson teacher Curtis Acosta. Acosta is the warm and eloquent—and photogenic!—language arts teacher featured in the film, Precious Knowledge, about Tucson’s […]
by the editors of Rethinking Schools “Banned in Tucson.” As many Rethinking Schools readers know, in January Tucson school officials ordered our book Rethinking Columbus removed from Mexican American Studies […]
Rethinking Schools co-founder and editor Bob Peterson wrote this poem after a visit to Casa del Migrante, a migrant shelter for men in Tijuana. Some of the men who stay […]
By Bill Bigelow Imagine our surprise. Rethinking Schools learned today that for the first time in its more-than-20-year history, our book Rethinking Columbus was banned by a school district: Tucson, […]
