COVER THEME
Race and Place
How do we teach the history of the enormous wealth disparity in the United States? What is the context for today’s homelessness and foreclosure crises?
Burned Out of Homes and History
Unearthing the Silenced Voices of the Tulsa Race Riot
Through historical documents, novels, videos, and a role play, high school language arts students learn about the racist riot that destroyed the African American section of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921. They turn their understanding into poetry and historical fiction.
Improvisation helps 1st and 2nd graders bring the Civil Rights Movement home to Portland, Oregon, as they learn about the redlining that helped determine the neighborhood around their school.
FEATURES
“Multiplication Is for White People”
An Interview with Lisa Delpit
Delpit discusses major issues from her new book, “Multiplication Is for White People”: Raising Expectations for Other People’s Children, with an emphasis on the relationship between racism and special needs.
Free Boot Camp for Education CEOs
The Broad Foundation Superintendents Academy
An investigation of the training program that filled 48 percent of all large district superintendent openings last year.
When her small, rural hometown bans The House on Mango Street from the middle school curriculum, a college student organizes her former classmates to get the ruling overturned.
“My Family’s Not from Africa—We Come from North Carolina!”
Teaching Slavery in Context
An African American middle school teacher changes her African American students’ understanding of Africa and their own history.
COLUMNS AND DEPARTMENTS
Free Editorial
Taking the Long View: The Organizing Tradition
Action Education
From Tucson to Palestine
Free Short Stuff
People’s School at Oakland’s Lakeview Elementary
School-to-Prison Pipeline Training
Free Good Stuff
Teaching Inequality
Our picks for books and other resources for social justice teaching
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jody@rethinkingschools.org
