12 Tips for New Teachers
As you prepare for a new school year, we wanted to share this short article by Rethinking Schools editor Larry Miller. While he is no longer in the classroom day-to-day, […]
As you prepare for a new school year, we wanted to share this short article by Rethinking Schools editor Larry Miller. While he is no longer in the classroom day-to-day, […]
by Stan Karp Last summer, the Save Our Schools march brought thousands of teachers, parents, and supporters of public education to Washington, D.C. The march and rally were hopeful signs […]
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 […]
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 […]
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” […]
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 That’s the question that Rethinking Early Childhood Education editor Ann Pelo raises in this blog post, a previously unpublished piece that Ann wrote for the book […]
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 […]
By Bill Bigelow On March 2nd, Universal Pictures is releasing the 3-D animated film, The Lorax, based on Dr. Seuss’s classic “environmental” book of the same name. The Campaign for […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]