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Now Is the Time to Defend Our Students: LA Educators vs. ICE
By Maya Suzuki Daniels and Elijah Chiland
Two Los Angeles educators detail how community patrols have become an essential part of their work after Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Recipes for Resistance
By Ross Irons
An elementary teacher describes how planning a family cooking night surfaced community concerns about the growing immigration raids in Washington, D.C.
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Rethinking Schools began in 1986, when a group of Milwaukee education activists — teachers, teacher educators, and community members — met to talk about how they could bring more critical voices into the conversation about public schools and libraries. These founding Rethinking Schools editors saw a school curriculum that was conservative, dumbed-down, and dominated by corporate-produced textbooks. Inappropriate standardized testing was rampant. Racial bias infected every level of schooling.