We asked a group of radical educators to weigh in on what they hoped would be part of any 2020 presidential candidate's education platform.
Rethinking Bilingual Education
Edited By Elizabeth Barbian, Grace Gonzales, Pilar Mejia
Rethinking Bilingual Education is an exciting new collection of articles about bringing students’ home languages into...
Reading, Writing, and Rising Up - 2nd Edition
Authored By Linda Christensen
For almost two decades, teachers have looked to Reading, Writing, and Rising Up as a trusted...
Teaching for Black Lives
Edited By Dyan Watson, Jesse Hagopian, Wayne Au
Teaching for Black Lives grows directly out of the movement for Black lives. We recognize that...
Rethinking Ethnic Studies
Edited By R. Tolteka Cuauhtin, Miguel Zavala, Christine Sleeter, Wayne Au
As part of a growing nationwide movement to bring Ethnic Studies into K–12 classrooms, Rethinking Ethnic...
The New Teacher Book
Edited By Linda Christensen, Stan Karp, Bob Peterson, Moé Yonamine
Newly revised and expanded third edition! This expanded third edition of The New Teacher Book grew...
Teaching a People's History of Abolition and the Civil War
Edited By Adam Sanchez
Teaching a People’s History of Abolition and the Civil War is a collection of 10 classroom-tested...
A People's Curriculum for the Earth
Edited By Bill Bigelow, Tim Swinehart
Five years in the making, A People’s Curriculum for the Earth is a collection of articles,...
Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality
Edited By Annika Butler-Wall, Kim Cosier, Rachel Harper, Jeff Sapp, Jody Sokolower, Melissa Bollow Tempel
Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality is a collection of inspiring stories about how to integrate feminist...
Rhythm and Resistance
Edited By Linda Christensen, Dyan Watson
Offering practical lessons about how to teach poetry to build community, understand literature and history, talk...
Rethinking Bilingual Education
Edited By Elizabeth Barbian, Grace Gonzales, Pilar Mejia
Rethinking Bilingual Education is an exciting new collection of articles about bringing students’ home languages into...
Reading, Writing, and Rising Up - 2nd Edition
Authored By Linda Christensen
For almost two decades, teachers have looked to Reading, Writing, and Rising Up as a trusted...
Teaching for Black Lives
Edited By Dyan Watson, Jesse Hagopian, Wayne Au
Teaching for Black Lives grows directly out of the movement for Black lives. We recognize that...
Rethinking Ethnic Studies
Edited By R. Tolteka Cuauhtin, Miguel Zavala, Christine Sleeter, Wayne Au
As part of a growing nationwide movement to bring Ethnic Studies into K–12 classrooms, Rethinking Ethnic...
The New Teacher Book
Edited By Linda Christensen, Stan Karp, Bob Peterson, Moé Yonamine
Newly revised and expanded third edition! This expanded third edition of The New Teacher Book grew...
Teaching a People's History of Abolition and the Civil War
Edited By Adam Sanchez
Teaching a People’s History of Abolition and the Civil War is a collection of 10 classroom-tested...
A People's Curriculum for the Earth
Edited By Bill Bigelow, Tim Swinehart
Five years in the making, A People’s Curriculum for the Earth is a collection of articles,...
Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality
Edited By Annika Butler-Wall, Kim Cosier, Rachel Harper, Jeff Sapp, Jody Sokolower, Melissa Bollow Tempel
Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality is a collection of inspiring stories about how to integrate feminist...
Rhythm and Resistance
Edited By Linda Christensen, Dyan Watson
Offering practical lessons about how to teach poetry to build community, understand literature and history, talk...
Rethinking Bilingual Education
Edited By Elizabeth Barbian, Grace Gonzales, Pilar Mejia
Rethinking Bilingual Education is an exciting new collection of articles about bringing students’ home languages into...
Reading, Writing, and Rising Up - 2nd Edition
Authored By Linda Christensen
For almost two decades, teachers have looked to Reading, Writing, and Rising Up as a trusted...
Teaching for Black Lives
Edited By Dyan Watson, Jesse Hagopian, Wayne Au
Teaching for Black Lives grows directly out of the movement for Black lives. We recognize that...
Rethinking Ethnic Studies
Edited By R. Tolteka Cuauhtin, Miguel Zavala, Christine Sleeter, Wayne Au
As part of a growing nationwide movement to bring Ethnic Studies into K–12 classrooms, Rethinking Ethnic...
The New Teacher Book
Edited By Linda Christensen, Stan Karp, Bob Peterson, Moé Yonamine
Newly revised and expanded third edition! This expanded third edition of The New Teacher Book grew...
Teaching a People's History of Abolition and the Civil War
Edited By Adam Sanchez
Teaching a People’s History of Abolition and the Civil War is a collection of 10 classroom-tested...
A People's Curriculum for the Earth
Edited By Bill Bigelow, Tim Swinehart
Five years in the making, A People’s Curriculum for the Earth is a collection of articles,...
Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality
Edited By Annika Butler-Wall, Kim Cosier, Rachel Harper, Jeff Sapp, Jody Sokolower, Melissa Bollow Tempel
Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality is a collection of inspiring stories about how to integrate feminist...
Rhythm and Resistance
Edited By Linda Christensen, Dyan Watson
Offering practical lessons about how to teach poetry to build community, understand literature and history, talk...
RETHINKING SCHOOLS MAGAZINE
The 2020 Election and the World Our Students Deserve
About a month ago, on an early Monday morning, Jose De la Cruz-Espinosa was parked in front of his Milwaukee home with his wife and three daughters, ages 14, 13, and 11. The family was getting ready to go to school when their car was suddenly surrounded by immigration agents and police. The officers didn’t have a warrant and De la Cruz-Espinosa wouldn’t let them into the car. But they reached through an open window, unlocked the door, and tore him away from his family. In video of the arrest, you can hear his daughters crying out for him. “My daughters don’t understand any of this, and it hurts me so...
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Volume 34, No. 1 — Fall 2019 Table of Contents
Cover Stories
Features
A teacher creates a "welcome" poems lesson to celebrate the diversity of students — and with students, turns those poems into action as a way to combat hate on campus.
“Do You Have Batman Shoulders?”
Middle school math students explore the disproportions of their favorite childhood toys
A math teacher uses Barbies and action figures to teach proportional reasoning and other skills — and to help students think about society's expectations of our shapes and sizes.
Walk the Line
On the ground during the historic Los Angeles teachers’ strike
A Los Angeles teacher paints an intimate self-portrait of what it was actually like on the picket line during one of the most important public sector strikes in recent years.
Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian interviews Gillian Russom, a teacher and leader with UTLA, about how the Los Angeles teachers' strike was organized, what it won, and what it could mean for the future of the #RedForEd movement.
A high school English teacher deconstructs "Hero's Journey" curriculum, shows its patriarchal prejudice, and talks about teaching collective rather than only individual transformation.
Diversity Is What Makes It Interesting to Study Living Things
Teaching gender diversity in biology
A biology teacher focuses on how rethinking classroom language around gender and reproduction can impact inclusion.
A special education teacher talks about the importance of sharing her own stories — and complexities — with students.
Book Reviews
Fred Glass reviews Eric Blanc's Red State Revolt: The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics
Departments
Ed Alert
Commentary
Teach the Fossil Fuel Industry — Our Students’ Enemy
Column: Earth, Justice, and Our Classrooms
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