Students Can Name Columbus, But Most Have Never Heard of the Taíno People

Today’s corporate textbook-producers are no more interested in feeding student curiosity about inequality than were British landlords interested in feeding Irish peasants

If we are sincere in our claim that all lives have value, then schools need to refuse to honor the first European colonialist of the Americas, the “father of the slave trade”

In Portland, Oregon, where I live, the 4th of July holiday offers an excuse for a wonderful annual blues festival in Waterfront…

At a moment of increasing social activism and global tension, now is an especially good time to remember some of Howard Zinn’s wisdom

Teachers and parents need to ensure that the public school curriculum is animated by a concern for the public

On this Earth Day, those of us fighting for climate justice and an end to the world’s fossil fuel domination should take heart from the struggle against slavery

The school curriculum could and should ask students to reflect on the contradiction of starvation amidst plenty, on the ethics of food exports amidst famine

Anti-bullying curricula are the rage these days. But as teachers endeavor to build a culture of civility among young people in school,…

This past January, almost exactly 20 years after its publication, Tucson schools banned the book I co-edited with Bob Peterson, Rethinking Columbus.…