Unintended Lessons
by Terry Burant Recently, a friend told me that a former high school student of mine named his car “Terry” after me. When she asked him why, he explained, “She’s […]
Month: February 2012
Outlawing Solidarity in Tucson
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 […]
Tucson to Palestine: History As a Weapon
by Jody Sokolower The day the Tucson school board voted to kill the Mexican American Studies program, I was in Silwan, a neighborhood in East Jerusalem, learning about a different […]
Interrupting the Cycle of Violence
by Jennifer Morales This week, PBS stations across the country will be airing “The Interrupters,” a powerful documentary about a daring and intimate approach to stopping the cycle of neighborhood […]
Valentine’s Day at Casa del Migrante
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 […]
NCLB waivers give bad policy new lease on life
by Stan Karp The Obama Administration’s approval last week of 10 state applications for waivers from NCLB was another missed opportunity to learn from a decade of policy failure. Instead […]
“No History Is Illegal” Campaign: Pledge to Support Tucson
Dear Rethinking Schools friends, As we wrote earlier, on Jan. 13, we learned that our book Rethinking Columbus had been banned in Tucson schools as part of Arizona’s broader suppression […]