[This article first appeared in The Progressive in October 2016. We’re republishing it following Sunday’s unprecedented protests in the National Football League to highlight the role that students and educators played […]
Rethinking Schools published Linda Christensen’s Reading, Writing, and Rising Up in 2000. The original book was based on Linda’s first 20 years in the classroom at Jefferson High School in […]
Author and educator Linda Christensen talks about the highly anticipated second edition of her 2000 book, READING, WRITING, AND RISING UP.
By Nancy Schniedewind As the school year begins, we social justice educators must work harder than ever to make Black lives matter in our schools and to educate students about […]
Resources for Explaining the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program to Elementary School Students By Grace Cornell Gonzales “It just kind of sucks. I mean, going to college and getting […]
By Ari Bloomekatz Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who was once dubbed a “champion of anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant extremists” by the Southern Poverty Law Center, announced Tuesday that the Trump administration […]
In 2010, state lawmakers in Arizona passed legislation that banned courses that “promote resentment toward a race or class of people.” But the legislation was, in reality, specifically targeting a […]
By Deborah Menkart What was troubling enough as 20th century history is happening in the present time. It is essential that we have discussions about Charlottesville in the classroom. “What should […]
Después del horrible despliegue de violencia y odio en Charlottesville el pasado fin de semana (11-13 de Agosto), que fue alimentado por la supremacía blanca, muchos maestros se han acercado […]
After the horrific display of violence and hatred in Charlottesville last weekend that was fueled by white supremacy, many teachers have approached Rethinking Schools to ask for frameworks on how […]
An educator confronts the failures of an education system that breeds white supremacy, and offers concrete tips for teachers who seek to challenge it. By Xian Franzinger Barrett This article […]
“Ayyy, I already told you, your name is too long! We don’t go by two names here and we don’t go by two last names. Pick a name. Maria or […]
By Moé Yonamine My family moved to the United States from Okinawa when I was 7. But Okinawa is still home — and I’m hurt and angered at how […]
Dear supporter of climate justice, Like many of those in our global community, I was disgusted and outraged after listening to Donald Trump’s speech at the White House announcing the United […]
Dear Rethinking Schools friends, Did you see that the Koch brothers-supported Heartland Institute is sending a climate denial textbook to every science teacher in the country? As the Moms Clean […]
By Bob Peterson While hundreds of thousands of concerned global citizens march for science and climate justice, a massive corporate-financed disinformation campaign on climate change is flooding our nation’s schools. The […]
Why the great historian would have loved what transpired over the past few weeks By Bill Bigelow Last week nearly 700 Arkansas teachers and school librarians received copies of books […]
By Bob Peterson In this Nov. 19, 2016 file photo, President-elect Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos pose for photographs at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse in Bedminster, N.J. Trump […]
Dear Rethinking Schools friends, And so it begins. At a high school in rural Oregon, south of Portland, 30 to 40 white students celebrated Trump this week in front of […]
By the Editors of Rethinking Schools As teachers and students return to classrooms this fall, together we have to try to make sense of a tumultuous presidential campaign and a summer […]
By Katy Farber Originally published at momscleanairforce.org. It can be a confusing time to be a kid. People on the TV, internet, and radio say conflicting things — about climate change — with seriousness […]
KPFA, the San Francisco Bay Area progressive radio station, recently ran an engaging hour-long show on Rethinking Schools’ new book Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality. Kate Raphael, producer of […]
Editor’s note: Milwaukee is the latest city to erupt as a result of the police shooting of a Black man. As in Ferguson and Baltimore, the outrage in Milwaukee last […]
By Brian Gibbs and Holly Gibbs When the LA Times reported that there was negative backlash from the Portland School Board’s decision to make certain that climate change was accurately […]
By Bill Bigelow In May, the Portland, Oregon school board passed the country’s first comprehensive “climate justice” resolution. The school board voted unanimously to “abandon the use of any adopted […]