The Koch Brothers Sneak into School
How Right-wing Billionaires Seek to Shape the Social Studies Curriculum By Bill Bigelow This month in Boston, thousands of teachers will gather for the annual National Council for the Social […]
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Restore Recess: A Movement is Born
Jesse is an editorial associate at Rethinking Schools.
Teaching in Black and White: Fall Issue is Live
Table of Contents COVER THEME FREE Black Like Me By Renée Watson A poem—and the history behind it—about being invisible, yet stereotyped, as an African American student bused to a […]
“More Than a Score” named in The Nation’s “5 Books to Build a Movement for Education Justice!”
Jeese Hagopian is an Editorial Associate at Rethinking Schools. Check out his latest book!
Guns and the Southern Freedom Struggle: What’s Missing When We Teach About Nonviolence
by Charles E. Cobb Reposted from: Zinn Education Project Morning strategy session, Greenwood. From left: John Lewis (SNCC), unidentified boy, Mateo “Flukie” Suarez (CORE), Jerome Smith (CORE), Dave Dennis (CORE). (Photo: CRMVET.org) […]
The Children of Gaza
This editorial is featured in our upcoming issue: Teaching in Black and White. Subscribe today! Like millions around the world, Rethinking Schools editors have been horrified and angered by Israel’s assault […]
“This Is a Test”: Educating to End the School-to-Grave Pipeline in Ferguson and Beyond
By Jesse Hagopian “We were at graduation, me and him, and we were talking. He said he wasn’t going to end up like some people on the streets. He was […]
Teach About Mike Brown. But Don’t Stop There.
By Renée Watson This time last summer, I researched articles and collected poems about police brutality, racial profiling, and the murders of black men in the United States. The […]
This Changes Everything Writing Retreat
Rethinking Schools and the Zinn Education Project are partnering with an exciting project: This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. This “multi-platform” project includes the new book by Naomi Klein […]
“The Library That Target Built” and other articles from our Summer Issue
“The Library that Target Built,” by teacher-librarian Rachel Cloues, reveals what happened when Target donated a library “makeover” to a San Francisco elementary school: the district’s anti-branding policy wasn’t enough to […]
Educating the Gates Foundation
June 26, Rethinking Schools editor Wayne Au spoke at a Seattle rally protesting the role of the Gates Foundation in public education: “Educating the Gates Foundation.” The rally was sponsored […]
Two Rethinking Schools Books Earn Awards
We have wonderful news. Two of our recent books earned Honor Awards from Skipping Stones magazine–a journal that has been celebrating exceptional multicultural children’s literature and professional education resources for over 26 […]
“What the Tour Guide Didn’t Tell Me” and other resources for teaching about Asian Pacific Islander History
We’re nearing the end of Asian Pacific American Heritage month, but don’t let the teaching of Asian Pacific Islander history and perspectives be limited to just one month. It’s good that we […]
Links we liked this week: May 4, 2014
Oops! We scheduled this to post on Saturday, but something went awry. Now we’re a few days late, but we think these links are still worth a look. We like […]
Post-patriarchy?
by Jody Sokolower, managing editor of Rethinking Schools and lead editor for Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality I came of age in the late 60s, when abortion was illegal, women were […]
What does it take to publish a book?
by Jody Sokolower We’re in the middle of a crowdfunding campaign to raise money to publish Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality. Our goal is $20,000 and we still have about […]
Links we liked this week: April 20, 2014
We like sharing interesting news, insightful opinions, activist victories, and actionable curriculum via Facebook, Twitter, and of course through our magazine and books. We thought why not collect some of […]
Sixty Years After Brown: “Segregation Forever”?
We recently learned of an interview by Democracy Now! with journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, who discusses the segregation that persists in public schools around the United States. Watch a brief segment here: You […]
Beyond Bully Prevention
by Jody Sokolower One of the pleasures of working on Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality has been the discussions among the editorial committee as we have outlined the book, reviewed […]
Queering Our Schools: Spring issue of Rethinking Schools
by Jody Sokolower, managing editor and lead editor for Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality The cover theme of our spring issue of Rethinking Schools is “Queering Our Schools,” and the thought-provoking and […]
My Friend Andy, a Gay Teacher
by Melissa Bollow Tempel UPDATE: A short time after I posted this at Huffington Post, I received a lengthy email from a teacher who was clearly upset about my message. […]
Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality: Join our campaign!
by Jody Sokolower How do you respond when a child asks, “Can a girl turn into a boy?” in the middle of circle time? What if your daughter brings home […]
Launching a Social Justice Writing Group
by Grace Cornell Gonzales Last year, during a Teachers 4 Social Justice salon in San Francisco, I read Henry Giroux’s “Teachers as Transformative Intellectuals” for the first time. It’s a […]
Rethinking Multicultural Education: Teaching for Racial and Cultural Justice
by Wayne Au This post is an excerpt from the introduction to our new and expanded 2nd edition of Rethinking Multicultural Education: Teaching for Racial and Cultural Justice published just last […]
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 […]