She Say, He Say reveals the development of fifth-grade urban girls' voices through their own writing in the classroom. This book underscores the importance of including all of the girls' voices into the curriculum where their voices can be nurtured, cultured, and responded to in potentially productive ways. Through an exploration of two major writing contexts, the public and the private, Brett Elizabeth Blake chronicles how the girls learned through their writing not only how to name issues salient to them, such as domesticity and racism, but also how to resist the underlying notions of...
She Say, He Say reveals the development of fifth-grade urban girls' voices through their own writing in the classroom. This book underscores the impor...
For William Ayers, noted educator and activist, -the allure of teaching, that ineffable magic drawing me back to the classroom again and again, issues from an ideal that lies directly at its heart: Teaching, at its best, is an enterprise that helps human beings reach the full measure of their humanity.- In Teaching Toward Freedom, Ayers illuminates the hope as well as the conflict that characterize the entire project of education: how it can be used in authoritarian and dehumanizing ways in the service of the state, the church, or a restrictive existing social order-an idea he...
For William Ayers, noted educator and activist, -the allure of teaching, that ineffable magic drawing me back to the classroom again and again, issues...
A teacher in a detention center school describes his experiences with Chicago's juvenile court system and the difficulties of the children who pass through it.
A teacher in a detention center school describes his experiences with Chicago's juvenile court system and the difficulties of the children who pass th...
This collection of essays identifies the ways in which school restructuring strategies connect to the ongoing pursuit of social justice. The contributors are educators and advocates for youth, who think that changing schools can change the world.
This collection of essays identifies the ways in which school restructuring strategies connect to the ongoing pursuit of social justice. The contribut...
"Democracy and Education" has been the leading voice of the nineties for engaged teaching. "Teaching for Social Justice" collects the best of the journal.
Featuring a unique mix of hands-on, historical, and inspirational writings, the topics covered include education through social action, writing and community building, and adult literacy. An extensive teacher file and resource section survey teaching tools from curricula to activist-oriented websites. Next in The New Press s award-winning education publishing program, "Teaching for Social Justice" engages parents, citizens, students,...
"Democracy and Education" has been the leading voice of the nineties for engaged teaching. "Teaching for Social Justice" collects the best of the j...
Zero tolerance began as a prohibition against guns, but it has quickly expanded into a frenzy of punishment and tougher disciplinary measures in American schools. Ironically, as this timely collection makes clear, recent research indicates that as schools adopt more zero tolerance policies they in fact become less safe, in part because the first casualties of these measures are the central, critical relationships between teacher and student and between school and community.
"Zero Tolerance" assembles prominent educators and intellectuals, including the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.,...
Zero tolerance began as a prohibition against guns, but it has quickly expanded into a frenzy of punishment and tougher disciplinary measures in A...
