Organizations and Publishers
This list is provided in alphabetical order. Some of the same groups are also listed in our list of links by subject.
Adbusters
A magazine with innovative critiques of mass consumerism. Great resource for interdisciplinary media literacy, art and social studies classes.
American Friends Service Committee
Founded in 1917 to provide conscientious objectors with an opportunity to aid civilian victims during World War I, today the AFSC has programs that focus on issues related to economic justice, peace-building and demilitarization, social justice, and youth, in the United States, and in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Check out their national campaign to demilitarize schools.
Amnesty International: Human Rights Education
Amnesty International believes that learning about human rights is the first step toward respecting, promoting and defending those rights.
Applied Research Center
A public policy, educational and research institute whose work emphasizes issues of race and social change. ARC projects include ERASE, a multifaceted initiative to expose, document and challenge racism in public education. ARC also publishes Colorlines, a cutting edge magazine on race and culture.
Boycott Nike
Up-to-date information on the campaign to boycott NIKE due to its unfair labor practices. Includes information teachers can use in math and social studies classes.
TheBlackPast.org
Reference materials to the general public on six centuries of African American history. Includes an online encyclopedia of hundreds of famous and lesser known figures in African America, full text primary documents and major speeches of black activists and leaders from the 18th Century to the present. There are also links to hundreds of websites that address the history of African Americans including major black museums and archival research centers in the United States and Canada.
Building Blocks for Youth Initiative
Building Blocks for Youth is an alliance of children's advocates, researchers, law enforcement professionals and community organizers that seeks to protect minority youth in the justice system and promote rational and effective justice policies.
CARTS: Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers and Students
City Lore and the National Task Force on Folk Arts in Education, produces the Culture Catalog. The Culture Catalog is a one-stop shopping service for educators, librarians and parents seeking quality books and multimedia resources in folklore, history and culture.
Class Action
Class Action is an organization that works to build bridges across the class divide, linking issues of race and gender with class.
Curbstone Press
Curbstone Press is a non-profit publisher dedicated to literature that reflects a commitment to social change, with an emphasis on writing from Latin America and Latino communities in the United States.
Democracy Now!
The best independent news source for current events. Broadcast in English and Spanish on hundreds of radio stations and online. The quality and depth of the stories make this program an essential classroom resource.
Educators for Social Responsibility
Educators for Social Responsibility (ESR) is dedicated to helping young people develop the convictions and skills to build a safe, sustainable, and just world. ESR promotes children's ethical and social development through courses and resources on conflict resolution, violence prevention, intergroup relations, and character education.
Enidlee Consultants.com
Enidlee Consultants works with a network of schools in the United States and Canada who are committed to "putting race on the table." Visit the Web site to learn about the work of those schools, for articles and equity tools developed by Enid Lee, and for news about upcoming institutes. Enid Lee is a Virtual Scholar at Teaching for Change.
Facing History and Ourselves
Provides workshops and curricula on ways to engage students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and anti-Semitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry. By studying the Holocaust, and other examples of genocide, students make the essential connection between history and the moral choices they confront in their own lives.
Fairtest
The National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest) is an advocacy organization working to end the abuses, misuses and flaws of standardized testing and ensure that evaluation of students and workers is fair, open, and educationally sound.
Global Exchange
Global Exchange produces popular education materials such as pamphlets, books and videos designed to make the world comprehensible. In addition Global Exchange coordinates Reality Tours to many parts of the world.
GLSEN
The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network is an education organization creating safe schools for all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
Good Stuff? A Behind-the-Scenes Guide to the Things We Buy
Have you ever wondered where chocolate comes from, if antibacterial soap is good for your family, or how to recycle an old computer? If you've had these or other questions about the environmental and social impacts of the products you buy and use, Good Stuff is for you. It contains many of the tips, facts, and links you'll need to start making more informed purchases that benefit your health and the environment.
Green Teacher
Green Teacher is a magazine by and for educators to enhance environmental and global education across the curriculum at all grade levels. Fifty resource-full pages of ideas and activities, four times a year.
Indykids
IndyKids is a new free newspaper that aims to educate children on current news and world events from a progressive perspective and to inspire in children a passion for social justice and learning. It is geared toward kids in grades 4 to 8.
The Institute for Food and Development Policy
The Institute for Food and Development Policy, also known as Food First, is an alternative, outside the beltway, 'peoples' think tank, with a mission to move people to take action to end the injustices thatFood First Backgrounders cause hunger, poverty and environmental degradation throughout the world. Food First produces easy to read pamphlets which challenge myths about domestic and international hunger.
Kids Can Make a Difference
Kids Can Make a Difference (KIDS), an educational program for middle- and high school students, focuses on the root causes of hunger and poverty, the people most affected, solutions, and how students can help. The major goal is to stimulate students to take follow-up actions as they begin to realize that one person can make a difference. KIDS and World Hunger Year (WHY) published the excellent curriculum Finding Solutions to Hunger: Kids Can Make A Difference.
Multicultural Pavilion
A wealth of resources for multicultural teacher education courses and K-12 classrooms including backgrround reading, lessons, book lists, and more. A project of EdChange.
The Nation
Publishing since 1865, The Nation magazine and radio program provide in-depth coverage of the news from a progressive perspective.
National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME)
Annual conference, regional contacts, awards, and quarterly magazine on multicultural education.
National Women's History Project
Best single source of resources for teaching about women in history and women's issues.
The New Internationalist
Journal, books, and web site for progressive perspectives on the international politics, history and culture.
Oxfam Education
Some of the best on-line lessons available on range of social justice issues for students and teachers. For example, there are interactive lessons for both elementary aged children and secondary school on the environment, trade, racism, immigration, health, maps, food, and much more. Although developed for a UK audience, most of these lesssons are relevant for children in the U.S. as well.
PILA
PILA develops tools and materials for community based organizations to compliment their leadership development and electoral organizing efforts. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach to leadership development and voter education, we offer versatile exercises, strategies and practices to organizations with limited resources.
Rethinking Schools
Rethinking Schools is the best education journal in the country. Check out the Rethinking Schools site to see the latest issue. Rethinking Schools also publishes books such as Rethinking Our Classrooms:Teaching for Equity and Justice (Volumes 1 and 2), Rethinking Globalization, and Reading, Writing & Rising Up.
Teachers & Writers Collaborative
One of the most valuable organizations for teachers of writing. Check out their catalog and journal.
The S.E.E.D. Project on Inclusive Curriculum (Seeking Educational Equity & Diversity)
The National SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum, a staff-development equity project for educators, is in its fourteenth year of establishing teacher-led faculty development seminars in public and private schools throughout the United States and in English-speaking international schools. A week-long SEED Summer Leaders' Workshop prepares school teachers to hold year-long reading groups with other teachers to discuss making school curricula more gender-fair and multiculturally equitable in all subject areas.
Teaching Tolerance
Twice a year the Southern Poverty Law Center produces the excellent magazine Teaching Tolerance (free to educators). In addition to the journal, teachers can request free films on the Civil Rights Movement, anti-bias early childhood education, and the Holocaust. The web site includes articles from past issues, teaching strategies and information about grants and fellowships for teachers.
Union of Concerned Scientists
USC is an independent nonprofit alliance of 50,000 concerned citizens and scientists across the country. UCS has become a powerful voice for change with a core groups of scientists and engineers who collaborate with colleagues across the country to conduct technical studies on renewable energy options, the impacts of global warming, the risks of genetically engineered crops, and other related topics. USC shares the results of its research with policymakers, the news media, and the public.
WEEA - National Women's Educational Equity Act
The National Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA) federally funded equity resource center works to improve the social, economic and political conditions for women and girls. WEEA publishes research about gender-fair instructional methods.
What Kids Can Do
The best site for young people and teachers on youth activism. We document the value of young people working with teachers and other adults on projects that combine powerful learning with public purpose for an audience of educators and policy makers, journalists, community members, and students.
World Trust
World Trust is a nonprofit educational organization whose vision is a vibrant, equitable, sustainable world that honors and embraces all people. This organization has recently created a video entitled Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible, which features personal stories of white activists and their ongoing journeys of transformation. Participants talk about being unconsciousness about their learned and internalized sense of white supremacy.
Writers and Readers' For Beginners Books
The For Beginners book collection covers a diverse range of subjects including history, current events, philosophy, visual arts, music, literature, and science in easy to read, comic-book formats.
Zinn Education Project
The Zinn Education Project is a collaboration between Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change. The aim is to promote and support the use of A People’s History of the United States in middle and high school classrooms. A People’s History of the United States introduces students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of United States history than is found in traditional textbooks and curricula. Howard Zinn insists that throughout history, people’s choices matter, and that this is a key sensibility we need today.
