In the midst of the controversy surrounding the Washington D.C.'s NFL team name, progressive education publisher Rethinking Schools decided to send team owner Dan Snyder and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell copies of their DVD Unlearning "Indian" Stereotypes.
The National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) continues to be one of the most important organizations in the country promoting critical, antiracist teaching for social justice. Their annual conference is November 6-10, 2013 in Oakland, Calif., and we urge you to attend.
We will be at three upcoming conferences that we want to remind you about. We'll have a full display of Rethinking Schools books and magazines at each of these.
"Of Mice and Marginalization," by English teacher Michelle Kenney, is the cover story for our fall issue. Under pressure from parents, Kenney assigns a classic: Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. Her students' reactions--from cutting class to lifting essays off the internet--lead to a deeper understanding of what's wrong with "the canon."
We continue to move into the digital age, now with our very own Rethinking Schools App! You can download it for free on your iPhone, iPad, Android device, or Kindle Fire.
As you know, August 28 is the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. A time when hundreds of thousands of people stood up for justice and a better life. We have so far to go as a nation to fight the persistent racism and oppression that still plagues not only our schools but all of society. Here we feature articles that will help you share history's struggles with your students, and hopefully help them discover their own agency in changing the world.
Rethinking Elementary Education, edited by Linda Christensen, Mark Hansen, Bob Peterson, Elizabeth Schlessman, and Dyan Watson, and published in 2012 by Rethinking Schools, takes the gold in the Education category of the Independent Book Publishers Association Benjamin Franklin Awards. The awards recognize "excellence in independent publishing."
Features articles from our archives, in which educators describe how they use films to teach important topics like environmentalism and the food crisis.
